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

open access: yesJournal 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

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

open access: yesJournal 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

Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro‐level measures that overlook how individuals are actually exposed to religious pluralism in their lives. This study shifts focus to the meso‐level by examining
Elis Carlberg Larsson
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiology of infertility and coping mechanisms in Ethiopia, 2025: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesReprod Health
Melesse YD   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
wiley   +1 more source

Be Fruitful and Multiply? Complementarianism, Pronatalism, and Suppression of Reproductive Rights

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious variables or gender worldviews (such as various forms of sexism), but not the two in combination.
Brooklyn Walker, Paul A. Djupe
wiley   +1 more source

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