scholarly journals Religiously Disaffiliated, Religiously Indifferent, or Believers without Religion? Morphology of the Unaffiliated in Argentina

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 472
Author(s):  
Juan Cruz Esquivel
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
Argentine Republic ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes ◽  
Religiously Unaffiliated

This article aims to characterize the socioeconomic and demographic profile of the population without religious affiliation in Argentina as well as their beliefs, practices, and attitudes toward a range of issues related to public and private life. This is a social conglomerate that has grown exponentially in the region and worldwide, but it has been little explored by the social sciences of religion in Latin America. The research was based on the Second National Survey on Religious Beliefs and Attitudes in Argentina, which was carried out in 2019. The study universe was made up of the population of the Argentine Republic aged 18 years or more, living in localities or urban agglomerations with at least 5000 inhabitants. A total of 2421 cases were selected through a multistage sampling. The analysis of the data reveals that it would be inaccurate to say that the religiously unaffiliated do not convey religious beliefs. Almost three out of 10 (most of those who responded do not belong to any religion but neither defined themselves as agnostics or atheists) believe in God and in Jesus Christ. Given that they are the most numerous sub-group and with the highest growth rate within the religiously unaffiliated, it would be unwise to consider this fringe of the Argentine citizenry as a-religious. Nor can we unify them under the category of disaffiliates. Although six out of 10 have a history identified with some religion (and in those cases, it is indeed possible to observe a process of religious disaffiliation), the remaining 40% show paths defined by the alienation from the institutionalized religious spaces since their earliest age.

Growing religion and growing religious restrictions: A global overview

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Grim
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes ◽  
People Today ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Religiously Unaffiliated

Major cross-national social scientific studies by the Pew Research Center reveal that the overwhelming majority people today self-identify as being affiliated with one religion or another, and even among people who are religiously unaffiliated, many have some religious beliefs or engage in some religious practices. The prospects for continued growth of religious populations appear strong as they are younger on average than the world’s religiously unaffiliated population. In recent years, however, despite—or perhaps related to—the global prevalence of religion, government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion have been rising in most regions of the world. While causes of the increase are numerous and multidimensional, data reveal a clear and strong association between government restrictions and social hostilities, a pattern particularly pronounced in the Middle East during the Arab Spring. Studies also show that many people, especially in non-Western countries, have somewhat conservative and strong religious beliefs and attitudes. Such beliefs and attitudes also have a connection to the level of religious restrictions and hostilities around the world.

scholarly journals Housing habitability in times of COVID-19 in Mexico. Case of Culiacan

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-112
Author(s):  
Mercedes Verdugo López ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Time

The prolonged social distancing caused by the Covid-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented condition that has severely impacted on the different aspects of public and private life in Mexico. One of the most affected areas is the role of housing and its habitability. In a very short time, homes have become a place of work, a school, and sometimes a medical care facility. This article exposes the importance of the inhabitant's bond with their home and the habitability that is reconfigured in the social conditions imposed by the current health crisis. We believe that preventive isolation can contribute to containing contagions if the living conditions encourage to the collaboration of citizens. The methodology consists of a case study carried out in Culiacán, one of the Mexican cities most affected by the pandemic. The analysis is derived from the statistical processing of an online survey, applied in two times to the target population. In the first, 231 questionnaires were processed as a filter and in the second 50, which contained the most significant topics on the subject.

scholarly journals Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Representations as Humanly Enacted Realities: Lucian (circa 120-200) Addresses Sacrifices, Death, Divinity, and Fate

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-37
Author(s):  
Robert Prus
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
The Social ◽  
Greek Civilization

Lucian of Samosata (circa 120-200) may be primarily envisioned as a poet-philosopher from the classical Roman era. However, the material he develops on religion not only anticipates important aspects of contemporary pragmatist/constructionist approaches to the sociology of religion but also provides some particularly compelling insights into religion as a humanly engaged realm of reality. Following an introduction to a pragmatist approach to the study of religion, this paper presents a synoptic overview of several of Lucian’s texts on religion. In addition to the significance of Lucian’s materials for comprehending an era of Roman and Greek civilization, as well as their more general sources of intellectual and aesthetic stimulation, these texts also provide an array of valuable transhistorical reference points and alert scholars in the field of religion to some ways in which the study of religion could be more authentically approached within the social sciences. The paper concludes with a consideration of the affinities of Lucian’s depictions of religion with pragmatist, interactionist, and associated approaches as this pertains to the study of religion as a realm of human involvement.

scholarly journals Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
Intimate Relations

The last decades have seen a growing trend towards researching intimacy. A considerable amount of literature has been published based on the reflexive transformation of intimacy framework. This paper starts from the premise that, recently, more and more scholars have criticized the idea that detraditionalization and individualization led to the transformation of intimacy during reflexive modernity (late modernity). Critics question the ability of late modernity concepts to offer a cross- cultural and nuanced image of contemporary particularities of private life and intimate relations. The purpose of this study is to show the current state of knowledge in the social sciences on individualization thesis and detraditionalization thesis, the main theoretical criticisms of the two theses and conceptual alternatives to them. To achieve these goals, we conducted an interpretive synthesis of 16 articles from international literature, published between 1999-2014, in the thematic area of social changes brought by late modernity into the domain of private life and intimacy. In the Introduction section, we briefly present the two theses as reflected in the two of the most cited books on these themes: The Transformations of Intimacy. Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies (Giddens, 1992) and The Normal Chaos of Love (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995). In the body of the paper, we synthesize the arguments sustaining the criticism of the two theses and show some conceptual alternatives to these criticisms, as stated in the literature. In the concluding section, we resume the main arguments to open directions for future studies.

The Oxford History of Hinduism

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Divine Feminine ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Worship Practices

The central purpose of the book is the critical exposition of the Hindu idea of the divine feminine, or Devī, conceived as a singularity expressed in many forms. With the theological principles examined in the opening chapters, the book proceeds to describe and expound historically how individual manifestations of Devī have been imagined in Hindu religious culture and their impact upon Hindu social life. In this quest the authors draw upon the history and philosophy of major Hindu ideologies, such as the Purāṇic, Tantric, and Vaiṣṇava belief systems. A particular feature of the book is its attention not only to the major goddesses from the earliest period of Hindu religious history but also—and especially—to goddesses of later origin, in many cases of regional provenance and influence. Viewed through the lenses of worship practices, legend, and literature, belief in goddesses is discovered as the formative impulse of much of public and private life. The influence of the goddess culture is especially powerful on women’s life, often paradoxically situating women between veneration and subjection. This apparent contradiction arises from the humanization of goddesses while acknowledging their divinity, which is central to Hindu beliefs. In addition to studying the social and theological aspect of the goddess ideology, the essays in this book take anthropological, sociological, and literary approaches to delineate the emotional force of the goddess figure that claims intense human attachments and shapes personal and communal lives.

scholarly journals Contributions and dilemmas of quantitative studies in the Social Science of Religion in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. e020008
Author(s):  
Juan Cruz Esquivel
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Anthropology Of Religion ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stock Of Knowledge

The path of the Social Sciences of religion in Latin America has been marked by qualitative studies. The stock of knowledge provided by the sociology and anthropology of religion from a qualitative perspective of research has generated the bases for the consolidation of this disciplinary orientation in the region. However, in recent decades, inquiries have multiplied from a quantitative approach, in order to measure the magnitude of the process of transformation of religious identities. The article aims to analyze comparatively the available statistical data on the religious phenomenon in Latin America, identifying its contributions and dilemmas. It focuses on religious affiliation, as the only data available and comparable at the regional level. Based on secondary sources, the surveys of the Pew Research Center and Latinobarómetro will be analyzed in the first place, and secondly, the data from de the Census and from Universities and National Research Centers. Despite the disparity in the corpus of statistical information between one country and another, the existing surveys coincide in highlighting a declining trend of Catholicism, with varying intensities according to each country, an increase in evangelical adhesions, as well as those without religious affiliation.

scholarly journals Sister Insider/Outsider

Axis Mundi ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kathleen Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Ideal

Religious studies as an academic pursuit is heir to the ideal of objectivity traditionally pursued in the social sciences.  Consequently, some scholars dismiss theology from religious studies on the grounds that it is not appropriately distant from its subject matter.  On the basis of this distinction the vast array of theological material available to religious studies scholars has been discounted as unusable, despite providing much needed insight into religious beliefs and behaviors.  In this paper, I argue that theological material as a whole should not be discounted as a source of religious studies scholarship and critique and conclude that it is necessary to reconsider the place of theological texts within religious studies discourse.  This reconsideration is necessary because critical theologies can use methods and include analysis that conform to the critical academic standards of religious studies.

scholarly journals Reasons for Delaying the Constriction Projects in Iraq

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
Areej A. Alsaadi ◽  
Redvan Ghasemlounia
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Test Program ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Project Phases ◽  
Project Site

This article dealt with construction projects in Iraq, and the research focused on the risks that may affect these projects. The purpose of this study is to determine the risks that construction projects are exposed to in Iraq and the methods of dealing in order to reduce these risks. Sometimes, if the construction projects are similar to each other in terms of configuration, requirements and purpose, then changing the project site is very sufficient to make these projects differ from each other and thus may be exposed to different risks. These are risks that negatively affect the implementation of these projects and may lead to delay or increase in their cost. Here a questionnaire is designed to collect data to identify risks that may occur during the construction project phases. This questionnaire was distributed electronically to several samples in the public and private sectors within state institutions in Iraq. After completion, the risks that these projects may be exposed to were identified. This was done with engineers and managers of companies and projects working in the public, private and joint sectors, and then these risks were analyzed by the Social Sciences for Packet Statistical Test program(SPSS).

scholarly journals Οι "Κατηχήσεις" του Μιχαήλ Χωνιάτη. Χρονολόγηση και ιστορική προσέγγιση

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Καλλιόπη ΜΑΥΡΟΜΜΑΤΗ
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Public ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

<p style="line-height: 15pt; text-indent: 21.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: middle" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt">THE <em>CATECHISMS</em> OF MICHAEL CHONIATES. DATING AND HISTORICAL APPROACH </span></font></p><p style="line-height: 15pt; text-indent: 21.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: middle" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt">The </span><em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolItalic; color: black; font-size: 11pt">Catechisms</span></em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt"> of Michael Choniates, archbishop of Athens, are included in Spyridon Lampros’ Archive, who first studied the sources in 1906 and transcribed the texts from the manuscript Mosquensis Synodalis 218 (olim 230) and 219 (olim 262). Although he prepared a critical edition, he did not proceed with publishing. Eventually, his work has been digitized and the researcher can visit the Archive online through the website of the Laboratory of Digital Recording of the Public and Private Life of the Byzantines of the University of Athens (http://<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><u>lamprosarcheio.arch.uoa.gr</u></span></span>).<span>   </span></span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt">The </span><em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolItalic; color: black; font-size: 11pt">Catechisms</span></em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt"> are mainly, yet not exclusively, works of religious ethics; they also address the socioeconomic issues of the city of Athens at the end of the 12th century, and thus can be used as a supplementary source for this period. Indeed, the </span><em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolItalic; color: black; font-size: 11pt">Catechisms</span></em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt"> offer a comprehensive account of the burdens endured by the Athenians, caused by the exploitative activities of state tax officers, usurers and pirates. On a different perspective, Choniates argues how adverse social conditions, such as poverty, immigration, and land tresspassing, modulate the social fabric and interpersonal relations. Although many of these issues are omitted or very briefly mentioned in other texts, they are clarified in the </span><em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolItalic; color: black; font-size: 11pt">Catechisms</span></em><span style="font-family: MgOldTimesUCPolNormal; color: black; font-size: 11pt">.</span></font></p>

scholarly journals Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Rachel Christina
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Identity Negotiations ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social

This collection of reflective essays and research articles argues for thegreater use of auto/biographies, both as data sources and as representationaltexts, in examining individual and communal identity negotiations in theMiddle East. It reflects the theoretical and topical shifts toward the local,regional, and particular that characterize poststructuralist and postmodernistsocial science research. It also resonates to the increased concernabout representing marginalized populations in historical, sociological, andanthropological literature. Positing that "biography lies at the intersectionof the personal and the political and of public and private history," Fay callsfor a more flexible, interpretive, and micro-focused understanding of therelationship between individuals and their contexts. She also championsauto/biography as both a means of entry into private lives and a lensthrough which to view those lives as part of a broader sociohistoricalmilieu.The various authors assert that such a use of biography is consistentwith traditional Arab and Islamic forms of representation - a claim that recentersthe Middle East within the social sciences as a key site of know I ...

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