scholarly journals Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110220
Author(s):  
Douglas Ezzy ◽  
Rebecca Banham ◽  
Lori Beaman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
The Social ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Christian Privilege ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Legal Frameworks

This article examines the role of legal frameworks and everyday interaction in the negotiation of religious diversity in Victoria, Australia. We argue that both formal legal frameworks and everyday interactions are significant in encouraging the respectful negotiation of religious difference. Experiences of historical privilege and visibility impact how religious people and groups experience and understand these processes. Or, put another way, the social position of various faith groups in Australian society shapes how people engage with both legal frameworks such as anti-discrimination legislation, and with other people in everyday interaction. Further, people’s everyday interactions shape their responses towards legal frameworks. Anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws also shape everyday interactions through an effect that can be described as the ‘shadow of the law’, in which legal decisions communicate information about normative expectations that particular forms of behaviour are acceptable or unacceptable.

scholarly journals Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 810-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Martínez-Ariño
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Legal Frameworks

The sociological literature has devoted less attention to cities than to nation-states as contexts for the regulation of religion and religious diversity in Europe. Drawing on ideas from the literature on migration, urban studies, geography and the sociology of religion, as well as empirical material from fieldwork conducted in three medium-size cities in France, the author conceptualises the governance of religious diversity in cities as complex assemblages where (1) the political interests and claims of various unequally socially positioned actors over (2) a number of domains and objects of the public expression of religiosity are (3) subjected to a variety of municipal interventions, which are (4) shaped by the interplay of supranational legal frameworks, national legislation, policies, institutional arrangements and local contextual factors. The result of these regulation processes are particular (and often contested) normative definitions of ‘accepted’ or ‘legitimate’ public expressions of religiosity, subsequently enacted by a variety of local actors through both formal procedures and informal practices.

scholarly journals Institutional aspects of the social enterprises’ sector development (case for Poland and Ukraine)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Lyakh
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Institutional Aspects ◽  
Work Integration ◽  
Legal Frameworks

The potential contribution of social enterprises to work integration, job creation, and service delivery remains largely unrealized both in Poland and Ukraine. This paper focuses on the analysis of the role of social economy and social enterprises sector in providing employment opportunities and wide range of services for group of interest. One of the major obstacles to the discussion and study of the topic is the lack of a clear and concise definition. It is requiring investigating evolution of social enterprise as a concept and as a sector of the Polish and Ukrainian economies. Institutional aspects and legal frameworks are considered in order to define the appropriate eco-system for social enterprises sector support and fostering. Attention was also paid to frame of the policy for social enterprises support and ongoing decentralization of public authority that is allowing to clarify what level of authority should be responsible for concrete policy measures elaborating.

scholarly journals Peranan Majelis Taklim dalam Pembinaan Keberagamaan bagi Ibu Rumah Tangga

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Oksy Almaidah ◽  
Novia Nengsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
The Social

This study aims to determine and describe how the role of the taklim assembly in fostering religiosity in the aspect of worship for housewives; the role of the taklim assembly in fostering the religious reading of the Qur'an; the role of the taklim assembly in fostering religious diversity in the social aspect; and what are the supporting and inhibiting factors in religious development for housewives. The type of research used is qualitative research (field research), qualitative research methods are descriptive methods in the form of writing or words from people and observed behavior. Sources of data obtained from the congregation taklim assembly. To strengthen the research data obtained, the authors also took data through observation and documentation. All interview data were analyzed by collecting, reducing, presenting and ending with conclusion. The results of the study indicate that the role of the taklim assembly in religious development for housewives in various aspects, namely aspects of worship, the Koran, and social plays a very important role in broadcasting and developing Islam in society, especially for housewives

Technology on Trial: The Social Framework of Safe Design

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. P. Munsell
Keyword(s):  
Tort Law ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Worker's Compensation ◽  
Products Liability ◽  
Worker’S Compensation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Operator Behavior ◽  
New Framework

Blocked by novel judicial defenses that deprived them of the common law remedies that the general public enjoyed, workers agitated for decades until growing political pressure led employers and the courts to accept worker’s compensation in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. Two remarkable side-effects of the Worker’s Compensation Acts were the ignition of the safety movement and the reformulation of tort law in regards to technological harms. These changes came just as some of the dangers formerly reserved for industrial workers began to be visited upon consumers in the form of new, complex, and mass-produced products. Safety-minded engineers joined together to reassess the role of technology in accident-related injury, creating a new framework for design that shed old deterministic assumptions about operator behavior. Likewise, the legal community re-imagined tort law in view of a broad no-fault worker’s compensation system. The legal formulation culminated in a strict products liability regime in 1964, and a sea change in the social status of technology itself. But these two revolutionary conceptions, both oriented toward the protection of the user, are not equal: modern legal disputes serve to expose the disconnect between the engineering and legal frameworks of safe design.

scholarly journals Legitimising Religion in Public

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-490
Author(s):  
Melanie Prideaux
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Representative Function ◽  
Established Church

Abstract The English context for interreligious dialogue is shaped by the presence of an established church which is inclusive, geographically spread, and engages with the state. This article will trace the ways in which the presence of an established church, and the particular model of church-state settlement, provide a context to legitimise particular types of interreligious activity. The social role of religion, the representative function of religion, and religion as an inclusive category, will be highlighted as key elements in the role of religion in English public life and in how interreligious organisations have developed. This observation is analytically useful as it assists an understanding of how and why interreligious dialogue and other activity has at various points become significant for the state’s governance of religious diversity, how success is understood and managed, and what non-engagement with interreligious activity might indicate.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie R. Schainker
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Thematically, the introduction first probes the role of the Russian government in managing religious diversity and toleration, and thus the relationship between mission and empire with regard to the Jews. Second, it explores the day-to-day world of converts from Judaism in imperial Russia, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. This exploration of daily life is attuned to convert motivations and post-baptism trajectories, and perhaps more significantly, it focuses on everyday relations of trust and attraction between Jews and their neighbors in the imperial Russian borderlands. Finally, the introduction examines the challenges of constructing, transgressing, and maintaining ethno-confessional boundaries by casting the convert as a boundary-crosser who exposes and thus renders violable the borders of faith, community, and nationhood.

Secularisms or Liberal-Democratic Constitutionalism?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veit Bader
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
Changing Role

This chapter begins with the concepts “secular,” “secularity,” “secularization,” and “secularism” and summarizes core results of social science studies into the changing role of religions in contemporary societies, Then it discusses problems with the construction of models of the governance of religious diversity in the social sciences and presents some empirically grounded normative models of relations between (organized) religions and societies, cultures, politics, law, and the state in order to draw some normative lessons. The chapter provides a critical discussion of first- and second-order normative principles that should govern the these relations. For rich empirical descriptions and explanations in the social sciences, grand narratives or umbrella concepts such as secularization, secularism, and postsecularism fail to capture different complexities, configurations, and trade-offs. The different meanings of “the principle of secularism” are discussed and a proposal to replace them by rights and principles of liberal-democratic constitutionalism offered.

Social Representations and Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonetto ◽  
Fabien Girandola ◽  
Grégory Lo Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
First Line ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliographic Search ◽  
English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document