Volume II (No. 2) - Autumn 2008.

Table of Contents

The word of guest editor

TOPIC OF THIS ISSUE:

THE CONTEMPORARY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND POLITICS

Satya R. Pattnayak
Institutional Capacity and Political Challenge: The Catholic Church in Latin America

Stephen J. Hunt
Betwixt and Between: The Political Orientations of Roman Catholic Neo-Pentecostals

Virgilio Aquino Rivas
The Role of the Church in the Politics of Social Transformation: The Paradox of Nihilism

Walter C. Ihejirika
"In-line" Religion: Innovative Pastoral Applications of the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTS) by the Catholic Church in Nigeria

Andrew Orta
Catechists at the Crossroads: Neo-Catholicism, Neoliberalism and the Shifting Sociopolitical Landscape of Aymara Life

ANALYSES

Danoye Oguntola-Laguda
Religion and Politics in a Pluralistic Society: The Nigerian Experience

Dragan Jakovljevic
Religious Diversity and Tolerance (serbian)

Tetsuo Maruyama
Toward the Universal Ethics and Values in the Age of Globalization: With Reference to Japanese Religions Compared to Modern Rationalism

REVIEWS, CRITICAL VIEWS AND POLEMICS

Dianne K. Carter
Attack on Truth and God - book review

Milovan Vukovic
Recent Achievements in the Sociology of Religion in the Former Yugoslav Republics - book review

Dana M. Moss
In their own Image: Western Constructs of the Muslim Other