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Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.
Contemporary Discourses in Social Exclusion
This book looks into different forms of social exclusion in different societies or contexts. It is important to note that in some cases, social exclusion is fueled by the deprivation of economic resources, political and social rights. In contrast, social constructs or cultural norms constitute significant factors in other cases. At the subject (macro) level, this book opens up an avenue where researchers from different subjects can look into how central issues of their subject can be understood through the lenses of social exclusion. For example, historical perspectives of social exclusion, sociological perspectives of social exclusion, religiosity and social exclusion, gender perspectives of social exclusion, educational perspectives of social exclusion, etc. At the thematic (micro) level, this book looks into how specific themes like racism, the corona virus pandemic, albinism, media, sexuality and gender intersect with social exclusion. In doing all these, the book also provides a much-needed multidisciplinary and methodological understanding of issues of social exclusion.
Emergent Spaces
This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change.
After Integration
The integration of Muslims into European societies is often seen as a major challenge that is yet to be confronted. This book, by contrast, starts from the observation that on legal, political and organizational levels integration has already taken place. It showcases the variety of theoretical approaches that scholars have developed to conceptualize Muslim life in Europe, and provides detailed empirical analysis of ten European countries. Demonstrating how Muslim life unfolds between conviviality and contentious politics, the contributors describe demographic developments, analyze legal controversies, and explore the action of government and state, Muslim communities and other civil society actors. Driving forces behind the integration of Islam are discussed in detail and compared across countries.
Handbuch Körpersoziologie
Das Handbuch Körpersoziologie verfolgt das Ziel, den grundlegenden Stellenwert des Körpers für soziologisches Denken zu veranschaulichen. Die Körpersoziologie versteht den Körper als bedeutsam für subjektiv sinnhaftes Handeln sowie als eine soziale Tatsache, die hilft, Soziales zu erklären. Der menschliche Körper ist Produzent, Instrument und Effekt des Sozialen. Er ist gesellschaftliches und kulturelles Symbol sowie Agent, Medium und Instrument sozialen Handelns. Soziale Strukturen schreiben sich in den Körper ein, soziale Ordnung wird im körperlichen Handeln und Interagieren hergestellt. Sozialer Wandel wird durch körperliche Empfindungen motiviert und durch körperliche Aktione...
Regulating Difference
2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the religious make-up of society across the Western world. As a result, societies and nation-states have faced the challenge of crafting ways to bring new religious communities into existing institutions and the legal frameworks. Regulating Difference explores how the state regulates religious diversity and examines the processes whereby religious diversity and expression becomes part of administrative landscapes of nation-states and people’s everyday lives. Arguing that concepts of nationhood are key to understanding the governance of religious diversity, Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the Canadian province of Quebec to show how processes of nation-building, religious heritage-making and the mobilization of divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces.
Forging African Communities
This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives focused on migration within Africa. It sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of home, community, citizenship and belonging. The authors ask how people’s movements within the continent are forging novel forms of membership while catalysing social change within the communities and countries to which they move and which they have left behind. Original case studies from across Africa question the concepts, actors, and social trajectories dominant in the contemporary literature. Moreover, it speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration, debates largely shaped by research in the world’s wealthy regions. The text, in part or as a whole, will appeal to students and scholars of migration, development, urban and rural transformation, African studies and displacement.
Religion im Sozialraum
"Sozialraum" und "Sozialraumorientierung" sind zu prägenden Leitbegriffen geworden, um Formen der kooperativen und organisationsübergreifenden Gestaltung von Lebensräumen zu bezeichnen. Auch Kirche und Diakonie bringen sich in die Planung und Entwicklung städtischer und ländlicher Räume ein. Die Beiträge fragen einerseits aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive nach der Relevanz von religiösen Organisationen und Netzwerken für die Entwicklung von Sozialräumen, andererseits nach der theologischen und diakoniewissenschaftlichen Anschlussfähigkeit an das Sozialraumparadigma.
Soziologie 4.2018
Die »Soziologie« ist das Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS). Die Zeitschrift fördert die Diskussion über die Entwicklung des Fachs, informiert über die Einbindung der deutschen Soziologie in ihren europäischen und weltweiten Kontext und dient dem Informationsaustausch über die Arbeit in den Sektionen und Arbeitsgruppen innerhalb der DGS.
Das politische System Südafrikas
Das Buch untersucht, wie sich Südafrikas politisches System seit der Transition ab Mitte der 1990er Jahre entfaltet hat. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den grundlegenden institutionellen, wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen Strukturen. Durch eine tiefgreifende Analyse einzelner Politikfelder wird hinterfragt, inwiefern die 1994 etablierte Dominanz des Afrikanischen Nationalkongresses (ANC) weiterhin fortexistiert und welche internen Konfliktlinien sich in Anbetracht der anhaltenden sozialen Ungleichheit und dem Ausbleiben effizienter öffentlicher Dienstleistungen herausgebildet und verfestigt haben.
