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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

Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Liberal Democratic Attitudes?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between Islam and democracy remains contested. Although some scholars argue that the two are inherently incompatible, others maintain that they can coexist harmoniously. Although the existing literature includes a growing number of empirical studies testing these competing claims, many are constrained by limitations in data ...
Zeki Sarigil
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

The Effect of Ramadan on Tax Compliance: Empirical Evidence on Religiosity and Tax Morale

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religiosity and tax morale affect voluntary and enforced tax compliance by comparing Ramadan and non‐Ramadan periods in Turkiye (Isparta). Data collected from a Turkish taxpayer sample were evaluated using multiple regression analysis.
Suleyman Dikmen
wiley   +1 more source

Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
wiley   +1 more source

Biblical Reasoning and the value of devout reading

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Biblical Reasoning’ is an experimental practice of shared scriptural reading amongst Christians from different churches. A central motivation for its development was the hope that it might provide a space within which ecumenical differences could be explored, and in which strands of deep mutual learning could grow across those differences ...
Mike Higton
wiley   +1 more source

Music and Religion in Islam

Free University Journal of Asian Studies
A ban on music has become the norm among radical Islamic groups. Music was considered a part of Western ideology, which poses a threat to the Islamic State.
Tinatin Karosanidze
doaj  

Christian–Muslim Comparative Theology in the Catholic Church Before Vatican II: A Study of Marie et l'Islam (1950) by Jean‐Mohammed Abd‐el‐Jalil, OFM

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1950 monograph Marie et l'Islam (Mary and Islam) by Jean‐Mohammed Abd‐el‐Jalil, OFM (1904‐1979) is an early example of Christian–Muslim comparative theology in the Catholic Church. Writing in the decade immediately prior to the Second Vatican Council, Abd‐el‐Jalil's work strongly anticipates the form and content of contemporary comparative
Mark Spinnenweber
wiley   +1 more source

The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source