Category: Research International

Religion in the Netherlands – The Rough Data 0

Religion in the Netherlands – The Rough Data

Dutch sociologists R. Eising, G. Kraaykamp, P. Scheepers and P. Thijs, have now published a data guide: Religion in Dutch Society – Documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in 2011-2012. This Data Guide provides the documentation of the research design, the sampling method, and the variables of the national Dutch survey Religion in Dutch Society 2011-2012. Freely available now.

Symposium & Inaugural Lecture: Materiality, Mediation and the Study of Religion 0

Symposium & Inaugural Lecture: Materiality, Mediation and the Study of Religion

On 19 October 2012 Prof. Birgit Meyer (professor of Religious Studies) will be giving her inaugural lecture on ‘Mediation and the Genesis of Presence. Towards a Material Approach of Religion.’ This will be the concluding contribution to a conference on ‘Materiality, Mediation, and the Study of Religion’, held on 18-19 October in Utrecht.

PEW Report Highlights – Muslim Americans after 9/11 0

PEW Report Highlights – Muslim Americans after 9/11

Based on interviews with 1,033 Muslim Americans the PEW report looks at Muslim Americans’ political and social attitudes; religious views and practices; experiences and difficulties faced after 9/11; views of Islamic extremism; views of US efforts at combating terrorism; and views of national conditions. In addition to updating trends from earlier Pew Research surveys, the report includes comparisons of Muslim Americans with the general public and with Muslims in other countries, as well as detailed demographic information.

ISIM Review available online 0

ISIM Review available online

ISIM Review 22, Autumn 2008 is out and available online. As usual very interesting articles which are relevant for  my research, to name but a few: Jews and Others in Iraq / Sami Zubaida...

Secularism Confronts Islam – Olivier Roy 3

Secularism Confronts Islam – Olivier Roy

Roy’s new book: Secularism Confronts Islam The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and...