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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
wiley   +1 more source

Interreligious Dialogue and Religious Nationalism

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Although the rise of religious nationalism problematizes interreligious dialogue and collaboration, progress may occur by emphasizing biblical precedents for engagement, correcting misconceptions about Christianity, and addressing common societal challenges.
Don Thorsen
wiley   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello, Lars Mathiassen, Marten Risius, Marc Cheong, Helana Scheepers, Emmanuelle Vaast   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Studying the Bible and Coping with the Past : Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Post-council Period in Germany and Austria

Edinost in Dialog, 2020
The decades following the tragedy of the Shoah marked a crucial turning point in how Christian theology would define its approach not only to Judaism but also to the first part of Scripture – the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible.
Edith Petschnigg
doaj   +1 more source

Israel and the Individual in Matthew and Midrash: Reassessing “True Israel”

Religions, 2021
Since the Holocaust, New Testament scholarship has become increasingly sensitive to issues of Christian anti-Judaism. While many Matthean specialists have acknowledged the problems with polemical interpretations of the Gospel, the idea that Matthew ...
Nicholas J. Schaser
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
wiley   +1 more source

Martians in the favela: religion and revolution in Rio de Janeiro

Radical Americas, 2023
Research on Marxism as a religious movement has primarily focused on its theological implications. Building on this work, this article instead examines the practical aspects of revolutionary Marxism as a religious experience during the Latin American ...
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

Paganism as a Political Problem: Levinas’s Understanding of Judaism in the 1930s

Religions
In response to the rise of neopagan fascist political theologies in Europe in the 1930s, the young Emmanuel Levinas developed a novel conception of the theopolitical role of Judaism.
Michael Fagenblat
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