Includes bibliographical references and index

Surplus, excess, waste, leftovers, and remainders : the dialectic of productive functions, antisemitism, and the vissicitudes of social forces / Mark P. Worrell -- The open dialectic between religious and secular values and norms : the course of civilization in the past century / Rudolf J. Siebert -- Spirituality and social character : the case of new evangelicalism and neopaganism / George N. Lundskow -- A critique of the ambiguity of bourgeois religion : Max Horkheimer's critical theory of religion / Michael R. Ott -- Apocalyptic unbound : an interpretation of Christian speed/thrash metal music / Charles M. Brown -- Islamic fundamentalism, modernity, and the role of women / Mahrug F. Khan and Lauren Langman -- Legion of small knights : informal movement within the Polish Roman Catholic Church / Agnieszka Koscianska -- Religionizing crime : ethos and action in the construction of the Finnish satanism scare / Titus Hjelm -- There's no place like home.html: neopaganism on the internet / Alyssa Beall -- Religious conssict in the periphery : Islam and politics in Turkey / Mustafa Saatci -- The Virgin Mary versus the monkeys / Deana C. Weibel -- Martyrdom and violence in sikhism : the transfer of embodied experience through witnessing / Rory G. McCarthy -- Catholicism recycled : the New Age in Poland / Dorota Hall