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Der Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung der religiösen Kultur in den USA seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Dabei gliedern sich die Ausführungen in drei Schritte: Im ersten Schritt wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die USA tatsächlich eine nicht-säkularisierte Gesellschaft sind. Unter Säkularisierung wird hier der Vorgang verstanden, als dessen Ergebnis Religion die Fähigkeit einbüßt, soziale Kontrolle auszuüben. Im zweiten Schritt wird sodann dargestellt, wie die USA nach und nach eine immer bestimmendere religiöse Kultur entwickelt haben. Der dritte Schritt erläutert abschließend folgende These: Amerikas unterscheidende Verwandtschaft mit Europa ist vor allem das Ergebnis einer ungeplanten Institutionalisierung des religiös-kulturellen Wettbewerbs und diesem verstetigten Wettbewerb ist es zu verdanken, dass die Religion nicht unter die Räder des Zeitgeistes geriet, sondern dass sie umgekehrt sowohl die Rolle des Protagonisten jeweiliger kultureller Umbrüche, wie auch diejenige des Kritikers solchen Wandels, übernehmen konnte. (ICG2)

Opinions differ as to the role of religion in the Northern Ireland conflict. In this article, religion is located at different levels: institutionally, in the indirect contribution of the Roman Catholic Church and in the direct one of the Orange societies; doctrinally and particularly, in the covenant tradition of fundamentalist Protestantism; at the level of relational beliefs, though especially on the Protestant side; and at the level of cultures produced at the interface between relational religious and national-political beliefs. The way religion connects to politics and conflict is different for each of the two dominant blocs of interests: Irish Catholic Nationalist and Republican on the one hand, and Ulster Protestant Unionist and Loyalist on the other. The role of the Catholic Church can only be understood if the relationships between the two peoples of Ireland as a whole are taken into account, alongside those within Northern Ireland itself.

"For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi'ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi'ism as a religion of protest - successful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in power

Abstract The present article discusses the processes of political and social mobilization of the Afro-religious in the face of the religious racism and "christofascist" politics deployed by groups with an Evangelical-Pentecostal profile. Based on ethnographic research conducted since 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Aracaju and Maceió, the article analyzes how these mobilization strategies are constituted in a modality of "terreiro politics" as a means of "doing politics", delimiting public identities, and debating accusations of increased and growing symbolic and concrete violations of Afro-based religions. The article also discusses how the categories intolerance, racism and genocide are part of a civic grammar that seeks to charge the State - most particularly the police and the judiciary - and push it to guarantee of rights in face the face of growing religious extremism characterized by narratives and actions aimed at building political agendas fueled by religious dogmas ("christofascism"), which result in violent acts against afroreligious terreiros.