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In order to understand the relationship of Jewish religion and the Jewish family one has to examine some of the major basic sources dealing with Jewish life. The paper highlights selected commentaries related to the Jewish family, found in the Old Testament and the Talmud. The basic values related to the Jewish family as expounded by the Talmud are explained. The relationship of the celebration of Jewish religious holidays and family life are summarized, and the life cycle and its allied practices are noted. The paper concludes with a summary taken from the work of Nachum N. Glatzer, which explains the strengths inherent in classical Jewish family life.

Our story-book concept of Africa as the "dark continent" is no longer valid. Nor is that other storybook notion, "man against wild beasts." The sad fact is that Africa today is, and will probably be even more in the future, the scene of savage conflicts between black men and black men, Arabs and other Arabs, Moslems and Animists, Christianity and Islam. For a while the race issue in South Africa obscured the fact of antagonisms and hostilities elsewhere; since the horrible acts of torture and cannibalism occurred in the Congo, the world can no longer ignore the eruption of multi-layered hatred, motivated by race, religion, and ideology, in practically every corner of Africa.

Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy, and the consequences of developments since 1979

Depuis une vingtaine d'années, on assiste en Afrique à un essor sans précédent de mouvements religieux de tous ordres: Églises pentecôtistes, mouvements issus du renouveau catholique charismatique, mouvements confrériques et islamistes, Églises de guérison ou encore cultes dits « néotraditionnels ». La crise socio-économique et politique que traverse le continent constitue la toile de fond de cette expansion. Mais elle ne suffit pas à en expliquer les ressorts profonds.

Cet article analyse le parcours de plusieurs familles pendant les guerres de Religion. Les conversions et les différences confessionnelles pouvaient parfois éloigner les conjoints (Marguerite de Valois et Henri de Navarre). Plus courants étaient les cas d'engagement simultanés des conjoints dans un même parti, ou tout au moins dans la même confession (Charlotte Arbaleste et Philippe Duplessis-Mornay). Après le chaos, la reconstruction politique reposa sur l'exaltation de la figure du prince souverain et de la discrétion féminine.

Despite the associations with conflict, religion is also a site of reconciliation. The limited literature on this, however, is constrained by its case study approach. This article seeks to establish a conceptual framework for theorizing the relationship between religion and peacemaking in conflict societies where religion is perceived to be part of the problem. The key to this is civil society and the four socially strategic spaces that religious groups can occupy within civil society and by means of which they can play a role as 'bridging social capital' in peace processes. However, religious peacemaking is mediated by the wider civil-society/state nexus. This shows itself in two sets of variables that simultaneously constrain and facilitate the relationship between religion and peacebuilding. We illustrate the framework with evidence from several examples in order to show how comparative analysis simultaneously illuminates case studies.

Unter Säkularisierung wird meist ein Schwinden der kulturellen Bedeutung von Religion verstanden. Sowohl die Befürwortung dieses Prozesses als auch seine Bekämpfung stellen unzulässige Vereinfachungen dar. Die ihnen zugeordneten Säkularisierungsbegriffe können keinen Anspruch auf wissenschaftliche Geltung erheben. Dieser Band verdankt sich einem differenzierten Verständnis von Säkularisierung und Sakralisierung. Den Lesern wird ein Muster von Verwandlungen zwischen Sakralem und Säkularem vor Augen gestellt. In kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive wenden sich die Beiträge Milton, Novalis, Rilke und anderen Literaten zu. Darüber hinaus werden die geistlichen Lieder der Aufklärung und der Jugendbewegung sowie die geistliche Musik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts gewürdigt.