Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 34

Ralph W. Hood Jr is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor. He is a past president of Division 36 of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of its’ William James award for research in the psychology of religion. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brill series, Psychology and Religion.Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. She is Chair (2020-2023) of the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) and edits Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSR). As a feminist sociologist, she interrogates the power dynamics within knowledge production and the implications of the processes and systems of knowledge on society as a whole. Her research portfolio currently includes research on digital religion, vulnerable children, definitions of security and inter-convictional dialogue. She has several publications including her latest title Muslim Women in Britain, 1850–1950: 100 Years of Hidden History (Hurst 2023).Ashok Kumar Mocherla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. His academic areas include sociology of religion, caste system, minority studies, public health, missionary medicine, and faith healing. He is the author of Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology, and Lived Religion (Routledge: 2020) and editor of Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility and Resistance (Routledge: 2024). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, USA, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, and Bielefeld University, Germany.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsSpecial Section: Open Section1 Colonization and Indian Psychology: A Reciprocal Relationship from the Perspective of Indian Postcolonial TheoryKundan Singh2 Human Rights as Implicit ReligionExploring the Psychological Correlates of Belief in Human Rights and Human Rights Activism among 15-to 18-Year-Old Adolescents in England and WalesLeslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna and Francis Stewart3 Dialogue across Difference: Direct Conversation as an Intervention Method for Prejudice Reduction and Differential Consequences for DiscriminationMatthew Durham, Christopher F. Silver and William Andrews4 Key Actors in the Regulation of Muslim Marriage and Divorce Practices in BritainFouzia Azzouz5 The Reciprocal Effect between Zakat Mechanisms and Islamic Political Economy in the Twenty-First CenturyOla Alkahlout6 Between Socio-Spiritual Activism and Sectarian Identity: The Case of the British BarelwisHafza Iqbal7 The Indians in Indonesia: After Sweat and Blood, Thus We BelongNia DelianaSociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia8 Sociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia: An IntroductionSariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Ashok Kumar Mocherla9 Islamic Environmentalism in Kerala: A Case Study of Chaliyar Struggle, South IndiaC. K. M. Nabeel10 Secular Codes and Sacred Spaces: Negotiating the Spiritual Practices in University Campus of South IndiaNagaraju Gundemeda, Anusha Renukuntla and Najla P. V.11 The Halal Conundrum: Clash of Dietaries, Victual Politics, and Community Lives in Keralas Past and PresentP. K. Yasser Arafath12 Hindu Women, Ritual Purity and the Sabarimala JudgmentShailaja Menon and Jyoti Diwakar13 The Role of Interreligious Dialogue in Promoting Inter-communal Harmony and Countering the Communal Violence in BangladeshMuhammad Rezaur Rahman and S. M. Morsalin Hider14 Politics of Religion and Adi-Andhra Movement in Nizams Hyderabad StateRamesh Babu Para15 Albert Einstein, Swastika and Visuality: A Study of Exclusion within a University of AssamPrithiraj Borah16 From Aristocratic Virtue to the Ordinary: Democratisation of Ritual Healing Knowledge among Muslims of MalabarMuhammed Hussain Arakkal and Ashok Kumar MocherlaIndex