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Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
wiley   +1 more source

Walking Together: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Relationship Between Religiosity and Substance Use Disorder. [PDF]

open access: yesNurs Health Sci
ABSTRACT The literature suggests that religiosity is a protective factor for substance use. However, individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) may actively cultivate their religiosity during substance use. This qualitative study analyzed the perceptions and meanings homeless people attribute to their substance use trajectories and religiosity, as ...
Chagas C   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Evangelical Free Church of Melvin, Texas

open access: yes, 1988
Historical Marker Dedication Program for the Evangelical Free Mission Church in McCulloch County, Texas.
Evangelical Free Mission Church
core  

Evangelical Friend, September 1967 (Vol. 1, No. 1) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1967
5 Why a new magazine? In his first editorial, the editor spells out the concerns and reasons behind the new Evangelical Friend. 6 The Evangelical Friends Alliance It is a means whereby four yearly meetings can cooperate in areas of common need and ...
Evangelical Friends Alliance,
core   +1 more source

Begeleiding en toerusting tot goeie werke as noodsaaklike deel van gemeentebediening

open access: yesIn die Skriflig
Leading and equipping people for good deeds as a crucial part of parish ministry. The article examines the role that equipment for good works, as an integral part of church ministry, can play in revitalising and help congregations to grow.
Gert Breed
doaj   +1 more source

The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

A generational shift in evangelical Christian partisanship

open access: yes, 2015
Since the 1980s, evangelical Christians have been a steady and reliable voting bloc for the Republican Party. Since around 2004, however, the media began to take notice of a trend occurring among evangelical youth (between 18 and 30 years old) ??? namely
Sylvia, Kathryn S.
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The child in American evangelicalism and the problem of affluence: A theological anthropology of the Affluent American-Evangelical Child (AAEC) in late modernity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis presents an evangelical theology of the child in the context of American evangelicalism and affluence. Employing an eclectic theological- critical method, a theological anthropology of the AAEC is developed through an interdisciplinary ...
Sims, David Α.
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Disclosing the Spirit in Evangelical Leadership Discourse

open access: yesReligions
This article offers a theological reflection on the leadership discourse of four senior evangelical leaders in the Church of England. The justification for a discourse-led approach within the discipline of practical theology is that discourse is itself a
Hadley Bennet
doaj   +1 more source

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