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The social scientific study of religion is a crucial arena of human endeavor, as questions about the existence and nature of God interact with the study of religion as a human phenomenon. The twenty-third volume of RSSSR continues the tradition of promoting extended debate of current issues in the field. The special section on Theism and Non-Theism in Psychological Science includes contributions from leading researchers in this area. This landmark collection of papers draws on a range of perspectives that both summarize the theism debate in psychology and help to move it forward in new directions. In addition, the volume includes papers on other key areas in the study of religion such as spirituality and social capital

The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies computational methods to novel sources of digital data such as social media, administrative records, and historical archives to develop theories of human behavior. We review the evolution of this field within sociology via bibliometric analysis and in-depth analysis of the following subfields where this new work is appearing most rapidly: (a) social network analysis and group formation; (b) collective behavior and political sociology; (c) the sociology of knowledge; (d) cultural sociology, social psychology, and emotions; (e) the production of culture; (f) economic sociology and organizations; and (g) demography and population studies. Our review reveals that sociologists are not only at the center of cutting-edge research that addresses longstanding questions about human behavior but also developing new lines of inquiry about digital spaces as well. We conclude by discussing challenging new obstacles in the field, calling for increased attention to sociological theory, and identifying new areas where computational social science might be further integrated into mainstream sociology.

Marginalization means being disregarded, ostracized, harassed, disliked, persecuted, or generally looked down upon. Marginalized people often include women and children, the poor, the disabled, sexual, religious, or ethnic minorities, refugees. The marginalized are those who are socially, politically, culturally, or economically excluded from main-stream society. In history, the Church in Zimbabwe has played a role in improving the lives of the marginalized, but what is religion, especially Christianity, doing for the marginalized now? Although religion is also implicated in marginalisation, the contributions in this volume did not address this angle as they focused on the role that religion can and should play to fight marginalization. The chapters come from two conferences (2012, 2014) that were held under the flag of ATISCA. The contributions have been updated to include later developments and publications.

"Religion and politics are two fundamental dimensions of human society, and yet they are often at loggerheads. Religion appears to belong to a different realm, signifying matters that are permanent and enduring, residing beyond the everyday. Politics appears to involve the secular struggle for power and influence, being driven by interest"--

Preliminary Material -- The Revised Faith Development Scale: An Option for a More Reliable Self-Report Measurement of Postconventional Religious Reasoning /J. Irene Harris and Gary K. Leak -- Spirituality's Unique Role in Positive Affect, Satisfaction with Life, and Forgiveness over and above Personality and Individualism-Collectivism /Inna Reddy Edara -- Restoring the Temple: Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health /Gina Magyar-Russell -- Forgiveness, Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health in People with Physical Challenges: A Review and a Model /Caroline R. Lavelock , Brandon J. Griffin and Everett L. Worthington -- Religious and Spiritual Appraisals and Coping Strategies among Patients in Medical Rehabilitation /Gina Magyar-Russell , Kenneth I. Pargament , Kelly M. Trevino and Jack E. Sherman -- The Relationship of Spirituality, Benefit Finding, and Other Psychosocial Variables to the Hormone Oxytocin in HIV/AIDS /Courtney B. Kelsch , Gail Ironson , Angela Szeto , Heidemarie Kremer , Neil Schneiderman and Armando J. Mendez -- Coping Without Religion? Religious Coping, Quality of Life, and Existential Well-Being among Lung Disease Patients and Matched Controls in a Secular Society /Heidi Frølund Pedersen , Christina G. Pedersen , Kenneth I. Pargament and Robert Zachariae -- Magic and Jinn among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom Suffering from Physical and Mental Health Problems: Controlling the Uncontrollable /Simon Dein -- Spirituality, Faith, and Mild Alzheimer's Disease /Jocelyn Shealy McGee , Dennis R. Myers , Holly Carlson , Angela Pool Funai and Paul A. Barclay -- Spiritual Struggles, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Mental Health Outcomes in Urban Adolescents with Asthma /Sian Cotton , Kenneth I. Pargament , Jerren C. Weekes , Meghan E. McGrady , Daniel Grossoehme , Christina M. Luberto , Anthony C. Leonard and George Fitchett -- Testing the Validity of a Protocol to Screen for Spiritual Struggle among Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis /Daniel H. Grossoehme and George Fitchett -- Winding Road: Preliminary Support for a Spiritually Integrated Intervention Addressing College Students' Spiritual Struggles /Carmen K. Oemig Dworsky , Kenneth I. Pargament , Meryl Reist Gibbel , Krumrei Elizabeth J. , Carol Ann Faigin , Maria R. Gear Haugen , Kavita M. Desai , Shauna K. Lauricella , Quinten Lynn and Heidi L. Warner -- Authors' Biographies -- Manuscript Reviewers -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Described, analyzed, & evaluated is the critical theory of religion of M. Horkheimer, the founder of the Frankfurt school of philosophy & sociology. Horkheimer's dialectical sociology of religion is traced throughout his whole critical theory of society as it developed from his early poetical writings, eg, Aus der Pubertat: Novellen und Tagebuchblatter ([From Puberty: Short Stories and Journal Entries] Munich, 1974) through his articles written in American exile from Nazi Germany & the post-WWII era, to his last talks on the work & effectiveness of his friend P. Tillich, his interviews with H. Gumnior on Die Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen ([The Longing for the Wholly Other] Hamburg, 1970) & his encounter with H. C. Mansilla in Switzerland shortly before his death in 1973. Horkheimer is one of the great Jewish intellectuals, who in twentieth century Europe lost the faith of their fathers & therefore thought to reexamine anew the meaning of human existence. For Horkheimer, as one of the survivors of the Holocaust in Europe, neither the reassurance of liberal democracy nor the exhortations of Zionism could inspire confidence in the future. The barbarity of European fascism had almost fully obliterated Western Christianity, bourgeois, Marxist & Freudian enlightenment & German idealism. Thus, Horkheimer undertook to carefully reexamine all of these traditions, especially Hegel's objective & absolute idealism in formulating a critical sociology of religion that did not require a commitment to any positive religious belief. Horkheimer thought to extend Feuerbach's & Marx's critiques of religion, the correct understanding of which necessitates an analysis of Hegel's account. This led Horkheimer to explore the Hegelian philosophy of religion as well as the critical theories of religion on the Hegelian left & the positive sociologies of religion on the Hegelian & positivist right, while at the same time remaining critical of all of these theories. Horkheimer's analysis of religion will become most relevant if & when the totally administered society becomes a reality. At present Horkheimer provides people with a way to at least modify & mitigate the iron trend toward alternative Future I -- the totally administered society, to resist with all their energies alternative Future II -- ABC wars, & to prepare theoretically & practically the arrival of alternative Future III -- the truly human, reconciled society. Modified AA