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An Empirical Look at the Ecumenical Diaconate in the United States

, 2003
The growth of interest in the escalating phenomenon of the diaconate in a number of denominations- predominantly in the North Atlantic region - has been well-documented in ecumenical dialogues, denominational reports, and scholarly publications.
Hartley, Benjamin L.
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Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of ...
Man Xu, Paula England
wiley   +1 more source

People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes [PDF]

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional ...
Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales, Paola Sapienza   +2 more
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The Mediating Roles of Political Ideology, Dominion Belief, and Stewardship Belief in the Relationship Between Christianity and Environmentalism: Evaluating Lynn White's Thesis in the Netherlands

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
wiley   +1 more source

Norges Kristne Råd – et fellesskap av kristne kirker og trossamfunn i Norge

Norsk Tidsskrift for Misjonsvitenskap, 2016
The Christian Council of Norway. The Christian Council of Norway (CCN) is a fellowship of Christian churches and denominations, with the Bible as the source, who worship and confess one God – inspired by the prayer of Jesus: «That they all may be one».
Else-Britt Nilsen
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Christian denominations of Russia in contemporary cultural processes

Общество: философия, история, культура, 2018
The study reviews such urgent phenomena as multiculturalism, glocalisation, and interculturalism in their coexistence in the unified social and cultural space of the Cristian denominations in Russia; their cultural identity is revealed. The term ‘small religious group’ similar to the term ‘small ethnic group’ is introduced in relation to the cultural ...
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hemmed In? Considering the Complexities of Amish Womanhood

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
How have conceptions of Amish womanhood changed over time? In this article, I show that while early scholars offered only a rudimentary look at Amish women’s lives, current research is expanding and expounding upon this question. To begin, I survey early
Natalie Jolly
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Christian political participation in the Arab world [PDF]

, 2012
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McCallum, Fiona
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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal 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