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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
wiley   +1 more source

The nature of depression and the biomedical model: ten questions in search of an answer. [PDF]

Transl Psychiatry
Fountoulakis KN.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between Christian actors, practices, and sacred sites in US protests and demonstrations, focusing on how political ideology shapes conflict outcomes. Using event‐level data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the analysis explores 63,000 protest events from 2020 to 2024 ...
Joel Day
wiley   +1 more source

International REACH forgiveness intervention: a multisite randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Ho MY, Worthington EL, Cowden RG, Bechara AO, Chen ZJ, Gunatirin EY, Joynt S, Khalanskyi VV, Korzhov H, Kurniati NMT, Rodriguez N, Anastasiya Salnykova A, Shtanko L, Tymchenko S, Voytenko VL, Zulkaida A, Mathur MB, VanderWeele TJ.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Top-performing girls are more impactful peer role models than boys, teachers say. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Goulas S, Megalokonomou R, Sotirakopoulos P.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

A Rat's Progress: Plague and the "Migratory Rat" in British India, 1896-1899. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci
Lynteris C.
europepmc   +1 more source

White Religion, Politics, and Racial Resentment in the United States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In popular American discourse, White conservative Christianity is nearly synonymous with both conservative politics and racial resentment. I argue that while White religious conservatives’ racial resentment comports with their politics, racial resentment should be more relevant to political differences among White religious moderates, liberals,
Philip Schwadel
wiley   +1 more source