Religion and Spirituality in Society Journal, Volume 1, Issue 3

The third issue of Volume 1 of The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society is now available.

Volume 1, Issue 3 includes:

• Surprisingly Unsurprising: How Brazilian Evangelicals Work Jiu Jitsu into their Worship Services by Jessica Rivers.
• Why Many Japanese Say They have No Religion: Collective Spirituality, Family and Law by Kyoko Inoue.
• The Poetry That Drives and Divides Faith: How Metaphoric Thinking Shapes Belief and Creates Religious Conflict by Phillip T. Stephens.
• The Descent of Gods: Creating Cultural History in the Kumbh Mela by Anjali Chauhan.
• Charisma in the Marketplace: The Transformative Role of Prosperity Religions in Southeast Asia’s Economic Modernization by Rebecca Sargent.
• Old Beliefs – New Town: Construction of a Sacred Place in a Secular Liminal Surrounding by Iris Aravot.
• Aspects of Spirituality in the Narratives of Persons with Acquired Brain Injury by Kathleen Torsney.
• Ethnicity/Nationalism versus Religiosity: Identity Issues in a Gnostic Spiritual Movement in South-eastern Europe by Saša Nedeljković.

• Integrationalism: Spiritual Disincentives for Humanity by James Felton Keith.
• Figures and Forms of Ultimacy: Manifestation and Proclamation as Paradigms of the Sacred by Donald L. Wallenfang.
• The “Seekers of the Light”: Christian Scientists in the United States, 1890-1910 by Rolf Swensen.
• Approaches to Religion and Spirituality in the Workplace and Quality of Work Life: Religious Expression in the Workplace by Carolyn Ball.
• Finding Balance: The Rule of St. Benedict as Model for Spiritual Practice through Prayer, Study and Work by Alicia Cordoba Tait.
• From Drums to Cyberspace: Social Media and Beyond by Michael J. Laney.
• Class and Religion: Church Attendance in Soweto by Dieketseng Motseke and Sibongile Mazibuko.
• Roman Religion: A Short Introduction to Religion and Spirituality at Home and in the State from Roman Republic to Roman Empire, First Century BCE-CE by Judy K. Deuling.
• Confessing Our Selves: Truth and Identity Politics in the Christian Ex-gay Movement by Michael Thorn.