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Is Virtue Good for You?

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

To Be Muslim or “Muslim-Looking” in America: A Comparative Exploration of Racial and Religious Prejudice in the 21st Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This Essay begins with a confession. In taking implicit association tests ( IATs ) designed to measure my unconscious attitude toward two particular demographic groups, I discovered that I, an African-American, harbored a slight automatic preference ...
Cashin, Sheryll
core   +2 more sources

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Syrian Christians (Shuwām) in the Nahda Movement of the 19th Century

open access: yesHitit İlahiyat Dergisi
After his invasion of Egypt in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte departed the country in 1802. In 1805, Kavalian Mehmet Ali Pasha, who later became the Khedive of Egypt, took significant measures to modernize Egypt through the Nahda ...
Turgay Gökgöz
doaj   +1 more source

Christian Arabic Bibliography 1995-2000

open access: yes, 2006
Contains fulltext : 39535.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Teule, H.G.B., Schepens, V.
openaire   +2 more sources

Are you Charlie or Ahmed? Cultural pluralism in Charlie Hebdo response on Twitter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We study the response to the Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 7, 2015 on Twitter across the globe. We ask whether the stances on the issue of freedom of speech can be modeled using established sociological theories, including Huntington's culturalist ...
An, Jisun   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

It's Not Just Fashion, It's Sin: The Impacts of Modesty Messaging on Female Adolescents Within the White Evangelical Church

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The following study examines the impacts of internalized modesty messaging (IMM) on female adolescents raised within white evangelical churches. On the basis of a large‐scale dataset (n = 5525), the article investigates associations between IMM, self‐esteem, and experiences of sexual harassment as a minor in religious institutions using a case‐
Nicole Marie Gallego   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Diversity and Multi‐Religiosity in Singapore

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can government‐mandated exposure to religious diversity both reinforce exclusive identities and cultivate “multi‐religiosity”? This study leverages the 2024 Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality to investigate how Singapore's state‐mandated and managed pluralism impacts the religious lives of its citizens.
Corey Resweber, Bing Han, Fenggang Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Meeting at Middle Ground: American Quaker Women’s Two Palestinian Encounters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the late nineteenth century the Palestinian town of Ramallah began receiving American missionary women who embodied their middle-class ideology of womanhood and ventured to discourse on Arab women and culture. Their conviction of the American woman as
Othman, Enaya
core   +1 more source

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