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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
wiley   +1 more source

Meaning in Life: Exploring the Potential of Mythological Narratives in Contemporary Life. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry
Abazari N, Saarelainen SM.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining the Discipleship of Marriage Through the Lens of Mark: A Theological Reflection for Bioethical Decision-Making on Contraception in Catholic Healthcare and Marital Life. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Abbate S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

What are 'biohackers' hacking? Identifying motivations and meaning-making frameworks. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Lorrimar V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Precolonial Centralization, Koranic Education and School Participation in Nigeria. [PDF]

Gates Open Res
Adewole MA.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

How to make sense of information about COVID-19 and the vaccine from the authorities? A qualitative study of migrants' experiences in two Swedish communities. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Bäärnhielm S, Al-Ammari B, Puthoopparambil SJ, Strand M, Cetrez Ö.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source