Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known … sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and … methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of …

(Mire/Drees), it compares the processes by which religion is starting to be ethnicized and/or racialized in Britain and …

Each of the essays presented enters the conversation about religion in public institutions through a different analytic … consider: the centrality of religion to the organizational identity or to organizational goal achievement, the effect of a … specific aspect of the institution's organizational structure on religion, and the relevance of larger cross …

Catholics, Protestants and non-believers, those of Eastern Orthodox religion have less social capital and prefer old ideas and …