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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

Religious Classification Beyond Belonging: Madhehebu as Lived Grammar

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious classifications remain socially meaningful even when people refuse to inhabit the categories they name. This article examines that puzzle through madhehebu, the Swahili term (from Arabic madhhab) used to name Muslim difference. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2022–2026) at Radio Nuur FM—an Islamic station in Tanga, Tanzania, that ...
K. D. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the Supply‐Side Theory of Religion in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The supply‐side theory of religion predicts that religious monopolies reduce levels of popular religious participation. While developed, debated, and most frequently tested in the context of Western Christian democratic states and to a lesser extent Muslim‐majority countries, little attention has been given to its relevance to Sub‐Saharan ...
Jonathan Fox, Allison Gangi, Ariel Zellman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Christian theology as a humanities

Herald of Culturology, 2020
openaire   +1 more source

Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhism and Christian Theology

Theological Studies in Japan, 1996
openaire   +2 more sources

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