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The changing Uyghur religious soundscape [PDF]

Performing Islam, 2014
Abstract Recent studies in the anthropology of Islam have called for a new understanding of the relationship between global forms of Islam and local priorities, new ideologies and everyday religious experience. This article addresses these concerns in the context of Uyghur society in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China where ...
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Religious Attachment and the Sense of Life Purpose among Emerging Adults

Religions, 2017
The salubrious association between religious involvement and well-being is evident among the general population of religious individuals. In particular, the sense of attachment to a deity is linked to promoting healthy behavior and positive well-being ...
Julian Culver, Melinda Lundquist Denton
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Religious heritage and change in the North

Approaching Religion, 2023
The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in November 2022, with the theme ‘Religious Heritage and Change in the North’.
Kim Groop, Jakob Dahlbacka
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The Changing Landscape of Sacred Groves in Kerala (India): A Critical View on the Role of Religion in Nature Conservation

Religions, 2016
Sacred groves are an age-old and world-wide phenomenon, traditionally consisting of forest zones, protected by people based on their spiritual relationship with the deities or ancestral spirits believed to reside there.
Catrien Notermans, Albertina Nugteren, Suma Sunny   +2 more
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Religious Belief Model dalam al-Qur’an: Rekonfigurasi Dorongan Perubahan Tindakan Ketaatan

Al Quds: Jurnal Studi Alquran dan Hadis, 2023
Religious Belief Model in the Quran: Reconfiguration of Motives for Change Acts of Obedience The tendency to change behavior in a more spiritual direction is identified by encouraging education and the implementation of worship routines.
Chandra Kartika Dewi
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Rethinking Cyberreligion?

Nordicom Review, 2008
Since the coming of the Internet scholars have been discussing its implications for the future of religion. With its high levels of Internet use and low levels of religious practice Sweden represents an interesting case for studying these issues.
Lövheim Mia
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Urban Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity: Relocating Religious Change

Mythos, 2018
The claim formulated in this article is that city-space and interaction with city-space engineered the major changes that revolutionised ancient Mediterranean religions.
Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, Jörg Rüpke
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Rising from the Margins: The Formation of the Institutional Features of Religious Organizations—A Case Study of the Development of Chan Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism in the Early Tang Dynasty

Religions
How are the institutional features of religious organizations formed? In seeking to explain religious change and development, an increasing number of sociologists of religion emphasize the importance of organizational features. However, few scholars have
Qixin Yang, Yanfei Sun
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A Wave of Unbelief? Conservative Muslims and the Challenge of Ilḥād in the Post-2013 Arab World

Religions
This article analyses the spread of unbelief among conservative Egyptian and Syrian Muslims in the post-Arab Spring period. In this period, social media gave an unprecedented visibility to transgressive expressions of fiducial doubt, creating the ...
Sebastian Elsässer
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The Green Revolution in the World’s Religions: Indonesian Examples in International Comparison

Religions, 2015
Similar to progressive political movements, the programs of many religious and spiritual groups today are converging around a shared commitment to address the impending global ecological crisis.
Thomas A. Reuter
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