Volume III (No. 2) - Autumn 2009.

Table of contents

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Topic of the issue:

SECULARISM VERSUS RELIGION

Philip W. Barker and William J. Muck
Secular roots of religious rage: Shaping religious identity in the Middle East

Biljana Ribic
Relations between church and state in Republic of Croatia

Adrian Pabst
Unholy war and just peace: Religious alternatives to secular warfare

ANALYSES

Michiaki Okuyama
The Yasukuni shrine problem in the East Asian context: Religion and politics in modern Japan

Dragoljub Đorđević
The sociological understanding of the language of religion: What is the word about?

Alexander Sotnichenko
Islam-Russian Orthodox Church relations and the state in the post-communist Russia

REVIEWS, CRITICAL VIEWS AND POLEMICS

Miki Bozinovich
Politology of religion

Pupak Mohebali
Transition of the concept of tyrant ruler in Shiism political jurisprudence

Stephen J. Hunt
The shaping of Ulster Presbyterian belief and practice 1770-1840

Sanaz Nasirpour
The process of Velayat Faqih’s political believes’ development in the political fegh of Shiite