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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
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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
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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools +2 more
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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
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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
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Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between racial composition of religious congregations and individual‐level perceptions of white discrimination and white privilege. Current framings suggest that organizations are racialized not solely because of their composition but also the implicit (or explicit) ideologies expressed within them ...
Jerry Z. Park, Brandon C. Martinez
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Paths of Faith and Focus? ADHD, Adult Religiosity, and Moderation by Race in the Add Health Study
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about how ADHD shapes religious belief and practice across the life course. Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examines whether childhood ADHD diagnosis is associated ...
Laura Upenieks, Samuel H. Fishman
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Religious Service Attendance and Interracial Romance: The Non‐Evangelical Story
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious service attendance is a consistent negative predictor of interracial romance in the United States, yet less is known about how specific religious affiliations shape this relationship. Using the Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey (CMPS 2020, N = 7883), this study examines how attendance frequency and religious affiliation ...
Heewon Yang
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do religious minorities proactively manage their safety amid global crises and local hostility? This article examines these dynamics, conceptualized as “vernacular security governance,” among Jewish and Muslim populations in four European states.
Tahir Abbas +3 more
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