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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Core facets of divine forgiveness: a study across monotheistic religions. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Paleari FG, Danioni FV, Valtulini V, Barni D, Sökmez AB, Eissa S, Greenwald Y, Knafo-Noam A, Regalia C.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Associations of Childhood Experiences With Adulthood Religious and Relational Outcomes Among Protestants and Catholics in the United States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a United States sample of 32 Protestant and Catholic congregations (N = 16,548), we evaluated associations between seven childhood religious and family experiences (e.g., conversations with parents about faith, childhood religious service attendance [RSA]) and five religious and relational outcomes in adulthood (e.g., RSA, conversations ...
Julia S. Nakamura, J. P. De Gance, Isaiah Contu, Katheryn C. H. Yang, Rachel S. Leong, Richard G. Cowden, Katelyn N. G. Long, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Pastoral Approach to Persons With Same Sex Attractions Who Desire to Live a Chaste Life [PDF]

, 2004
Harvey, John F.
core   +2 more sources

Low self-esteem in adolescents with sickle cell disease: Determinants and coping mechanisms; A mixed methods study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Nakabuye J, Muzeyi W, Nakirulu A, Kiguli S, Ndeezi G, Munube D.   +5 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

The Structure of Religion and Spirituality in a Diverse Sample of Adults in the U.S.: A Report on Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health. [PDF]

Psycholog Relig Spiritual
Rowatt WC, Latendresse S, Kent BV, Fergus TA, Warner ET, Marr J, Cozier YC, Kanaya AM, Eliassen AH, Daviglus ML, Cole SA, Chavarro JE, Pargament KI, Shields AE.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
wiley   +1 more source

The Perils of Doubt: Happiness, Epistemological Certainty, and Free Exercise Rights [PDF]

, 2014
Apar, Eric
core   +2 more sources

Bacteria-powered LA@CaDGP biomotor: a multi-modal weapon integrating calcium overload, chemotherapy, and starvation for breast cancer therapy. [PDF]

J Nanobiotechnology
Huang J, Tang Y, Xiang K, Wang B, Wang J, Lu Y, Li Y, Deng H, Li T, Xiong K, Wen Q, Fu S.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source