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Operationalizing the Greening of Religion: Developing and Validating a Laudato si’–Grounded Instrument

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of the greening of religion (GoR) has rarely been examined empirically. Existing instruments for measuring environmental attitudes are not designed with religious ecological discourse in mind, nor are they suited to testing its conceptual boundaries.
Jarosław Kozak, Stanisław Fel, Łukasz Gora   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Go Ahead and Bring Me Up on Charges—The Rocks Will Sing Out”: Organizational Structure, Ally Activism, and the Struggle for Marriage Equality in the UMC

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After decades of struggle, the United Methodist Church (UMC) removed all LGBTQ‐restrictive language from its Book of Discipline in 2024, overturning exclusionary policies that forbid same‐sex weddings and the ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy. This research sheds light on the activism that preceded institutional change within the UMC.
Nancy L. Malcom, Melinda D. Kane
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Human Milk Sharing Practices: A Cross‐Sectional Survey of Donors and Recipients in Ireland

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The provision of human milk is a global public health priority underpinned by its extensive benefits to infant and maternal health, and significant positive impacts within economic, societal, and environmental spheres. Informal human milk sharing (IHMS) is a contemporary and increasingly prevalent phenomenon which involves the exchange of ...
Niamh Vickers, Anne Matthews, Gillian Paul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +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

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source

Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
wiley   +1 more source

City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
wiley   +1 more source