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Psychological Stress and Birth Outcomes in Amish Women Before and After the Nickel Mines Shooting
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Objective: To evaluate the impact of the Nickel Mines shooting October 2, 2006 on the psychological stress and birth outcomes of Amish women living in proximity to the event.
Berwood Yost +4 more
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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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Contemporary Christian Theologies of Homosexuality: A Typology
, 2019 Since the 1970s, influenced by burgeioning research on homosexuality in the natural and social sciences, a deep change in the theological understanding of homosexuality have begun to emerge within the Christian community.
Gao, Zhe
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018 Amish and Mennonites have a long standing heritage of caring for each other within the community and family setting using natural, herbal medicines and therapies.
Rosanna Hess
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Berks County with its diamond-shaped area of 864 square miles located in southeastern Pennsylvania is rich in history and scenic resources. Its mild climate, fertile soil, and the Schuylkill River attracted European settlers in the beginning of the ...
Berit Jany
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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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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018 The “Pure Church Movement” is introduced as a plain Anabaptist revival that unfolded in American, Canadian, and Latin American Swiss Mennonite, Russian Mennonite, and Amish churches over the course of the 20th century. It was an intentional return to the
Peter Hoover
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Flesh, Freundschaft, and Fellowship: Towards a Holistic Model of the Amish Kinship System
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Kinship as a social anthropological category, with its three fundamentals – affinity, descent, and siblingship – denotes an orderly system of social relationships past, present, and future, through which a social system is composed and reproduced.
Vlatka Škender
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although religious service attendance is touted for its reliable measurement and robust associations with well‐being, the overwhelming focus on attendance has allowed other aspects of religious participation to be significantly understudied.
Rachael Murdock, Laura Upenieks
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The response of selected Christian denominations in the Durban functional region to HIV/AIDS. [PDF]
, 2003 Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.This study investigated selected Christian denominations in the Durban Functional Region's response to HIV/AIDS and the extent of their involvement within the issues of HIV/AIDS. The study also explored how
Semple, Tracey.
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