Volume 48 (2025), Edition 1

The article explores the question of why religion inherently involves a demarcation against »the other«. Orthodox and fundamentalist forms of religiosity, for instance, often regard all those who do not adhere to their narrow dogma as unbelievers....

Religion is at the center of gender political contestations. In the background is a new anti-feminist consensus on gender rights; at the same time, rights are being instrumentalized to justify racist policies. This raises the question of the form,...

Freud’s psychoanalytic critique of religion is one of the great, though highly controversial, achievements of psychological enlightenment. Despite its theoretical biases and errors, its rather narrow empirical basis, and its apparent...

Metaphors of religious criticism are no less colorful and diverse than the metaphors of religion. Moreover, they are often related to metaphors of religion, especially with regard to their specific processes of meaning-formation. The meaning of a...

Muslim women in Austria are increasingly struggling with hostility. The phenomenon of conversion to Islam in the Western world has received increased attention in both academia and the mass media. Female converts were often at the centre of the...