Search results for "religious studies"

Restructuring university degree programmes: a new opportunity for ethics education?

2008

This article explores the possibilities of reinforcing ethics education at the university level within the context of new internationalisation processes. The situation in Spain is used as a case study. The article begins with a review of the rationale behind this issue and goes on to analyse the place of the ethical dimension in education in the proposals for adapting Spanish university degree programmes to the European Higher Education Area. Fieldwork carried out at three higher education institutions reveals that, while professors accept the institutional function of the university in ethics education, their hazy conception of the matter weakens the likelihood of a pedagogical approach in…

Recensione di: Madri d'Oriente fra tradizione e dissenso, a cura di Marianna Ferrara e Leila Karami, Jouvence

2020

Review by: Madri d'Oriente fra tradizione e dissenso, a cura di Marianna Ferrara e Leila Karami, Jouvence

A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)

2021

Machiavelli’s Critique of Christianity

2005

Hagit Amirav, Authority and Performance – Sociological Perspectives on the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451). Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015,…

2019

Framtidstro og underordning: En lesning av tolv lærebøker i psykiatrisk sykepleie og psykiatri

2016

Social Geographical Patterns in Membership of the Established Church in Denmark

2019

The Church of Denmark was established in 1849 and is regarded as a pillar of traditional national identity. This status is being challenged by a steady decline in membership in recent decades. The Capital area is especially prone to low membership rates, and this regional pattern remains when the analysis controls for income and education. Furthermore, the local membership rate is also related to affiliation to the neighbourhood. Our detailed analysis is based on public register data on the individual level combined with geographical mapping information. Denmark is thereby divided into micro-aggregated areas in order to locate varying church membership rates. While some local variation can …

The Importance of Religion for the Evaluation of Everyday Ecological Decisions by German Adolescents

2020

Abstract Although previous research has addressed the relationship between religion and ecology in a variety of ways, little is known concerning how religious orientation affects concrete everyday ecological decisions, although these are centrally important for environmental education. Being interested in elucidating the preconditions of ecological learning in Biology and Religious Education in schools, the authors have developed an approach based on maximum concretion with regard to the ecological decision in which the influence of religion should be evaluated. With this goal in mind, they conducted an empirical study among secondary school students in central Western Germany (N = 815), wh…

Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, by ShannonGleeson. Cornell University Press, Itha…

2014

From Cottesloe (1961) to Trondheim (2016): The journey of the Dutch Reformed Church back into the ecumenical family of the World Council of Churches

2018

This article presents an analysis of the journey of the Dutch Reformed Church (South Africa) back into the ecumenical fellowship of the World Council of Churches (WCC). The first part contains a brief historical review of the relationships between the WCC and the Dutch Reformed Church family, underlining the fact that the Dutch Reformed Church family in South Africa is a founding member of WCC and that it was never excluded from WCC fellowship; rather, this church itself resigned membership in the WCC after the Cottesloe Consultation (1961) at the pressure of the South African government of that time. The last part presents in detail the process of the readmission of the Dutch Reformed Chur…