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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
wiley   +1 more source

Where the outliers lie: The Freethinkers’ Burial Plot of Tunis and the limits of identity in death

L’Année du Maghreb
This article examines the Freethinkers’ Burial Plot of Tunis as a site where the limits of a “non-religious” identity become visible. While the living may enjoy a degree of flexibility in how they define themselves outside of religion, death often ...
Margaux Fitoussi
doaj   +1 more source

A generation of scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction in the Medieval World

, 2004
Journal articleTo what extent has research in the past three decades changed our understanding of Jewish-Christian interaction in the pre-modern period?
Berger, David
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The Paradox of Threat: Vernacular Security Governance Among Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Four European States

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, May Tamimova, Irene Trebeschi, Paul Wabnitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should the Holocaust Force Us to Rethink Our View of God and Evil?

Tyndale Bulletin, 2001
This paper grapples with the impact the Holocaust has had on Jewish-Christian relations, and comes to the conclusion that the problem of evil is an age-old dilemma for biblical theists, and does not take on special meaning in light of the Holocaust (even
John J. Johnson
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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

Dialog i konfliktens skugga. Några aktuella perspektiv från Jerusalem

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
More than 4,000 people have died in the last five years of escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians. The ongoing conflict not only determines the political, economical and social realities of the region; it dominates people’s hearts and ...
Tina Haettner Blomquist
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
wiley   +1 more source

Abraham Joshua Heschel and Nostra Aetate: Shaping the Catholic Reconsideration of Judaism during Vatican II

Religions, 2016
Although Nostra Aetate is only comprised of five short paragraphs, this document represents a turning point, not just for Catholic-Jewish relations, but also sketches the fundamental aims of embodying the Christian faith in a pluralistic age.
Joshua Furnal
doaj   +1 more source