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What is the role of religion in creating the rules of society? What should religion's role be? Religion in industrialized countries often appears as a private, personal matter while issues of social justice are worked out in a secular public sphere. But increasingly both policymakers and religious leaders are becoming aware of the role religious values play at the local, national and international levels. Religion and Social Policy explores how religious concerns influence those who shape and those who are shaped by policies. It queries the social teachings of global denominations and local...

Feminization is said to occur when women enter any given occupation in substantial numbers, and ostensibly leads to such dynamics as sex-segregation, reduced opportunities for men, and depressed wages and diminished prestige for the occupation as a whole. Spanning more than 70 years, Paula Nesbitt's study of feminization concentrates on the Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association, utilizing both statistical results and interviews to compare occupational patterns prior and subsequent to the large influx of women clergy. Among her findings, the author discovers that a...

Indaba explores how communities can live together amid differences of view, backgrounds, cultures, and various demographic characteristics. Based on research of the Continuing Indaba and Mutual Listening project that spanned four continents (including North America), the book's purpose is to show how people can work together despite differences and conflict. The author points to ways in which conflict can be both beneficial and productive for all involved if it is approached in a mutually respectful manner such as through an indaba process, offering insights into how indaba can be used to...