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

Journal 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]

Reprod Health
Melesse YD, Amha H, Getnet A, Ewunetie AA, Abneh AA, Gedif G, Lamesgen A, Muluneh AA.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
wiley   +1 more source

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

Journal 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

Journal 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

Documented rituals in pediatric intensive care: a decade of sacramental and symbolic practices in a pluralistic clinical setting. [PDF]

BMC Pediatr
Hébert S, Reutter H, Hanslik G, Woelfle J, Conrad ML, Fahlbusch FB.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Short‐Term Trips, Short‐Term Effects? Exploring the Association Between Religious Retreats and Mission Trips With Subjective Well‐Being

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although religious service attendance is touted for its reliable measurement and robust associations with well‐being, the overwhelming focus on attendance has allowed other aspects of religious participation to be significantly understudied.
Rachael Murdock, Laura Upenieks
wiley   +1 more source

In Utero Selection Echoes Across a Lifetime: Evidence From Historical Utah Populations. [PDF]

Am J Hum Biol
Bruckner TA, Bonham J, Schacht R, Smith KR.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Baptism in Late Antique Hagiography of Female Saints

Astarté
The 2nd century Acts of Paul and Thecla introduces a scene of self-baptism, a practice that garnered criticism from Tertullian in his De Baptismo. The text, describing the conversion, martyrdom, and liberation of a young non-Christian woman, serves as a
Ángel Narro
doaj