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The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between Christian actors, practices, and sacred sites in US protests and demonstrations, focusing on how political ideology shapes conflict outcomes. Using event‐level data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the analysis explores 63,000 protest events from 2020 to 2024 ...
Joel Day
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How topic content shapes LLM personality-tailored persuasion: semantic anchoring and topic stereotype effects. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Xu S, Zhou Z, Zhao N.
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Ambiguous Boundaries of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Belonging in Japan: A Descriptive Analysis of Plural and Cultural Religiosity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
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Shopping festival atmospherics of China's singles day shopping festival and participants' perception: Scale development and validation. [PDF]

PLoS One
Li J, Wang X, Gu Q.
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Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi ...
Fenggang Yang, Joey Marshall
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial configuration of cultural landscape facilities in Shandong's Yellow River corridor: a rural living circle perspective. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Zhang Z, Li W, Liu W, Huang Y, Xu Y.
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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
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Balancing tradition and animal welfare: Adapting an animal-involving festival to climate change in Fukushima, Japan. [PDF]

One Health
Harada F, Takita M, Shibuya K.
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Intergenerational engagement among older people in the long-term care facility in China: a mixed-methods study protocol. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Liu H, Topping AE, Guo P.
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