psychosozial

Reactions to the uncovering of (sexual) violence in educational institutions typically unfold in a split between doubt and denial on the one hand and support for dealing with the issue on the other. However, the now numerous studies on the emergence...

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,...

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...

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...

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...