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Jehovah's Witnesses newspaper clippings, The Herald Journal, 1960 [PDF]
Newspaper clippings about the Jehovah's Witnesses in Logan, Utah. 'Logan Man has Convention Role' is about Jehovah's Witness minister Robert Stitch. 'About Town' details Lutheran worship services.
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ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context
ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser +2 more
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Ethics [PDF]
The Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian sect that was founded in the late 1870 by Charles Russel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. What began as a small Bible study group evolved into a religious sect that currently includes over 2.6 million members ...
Hnin Yi Mon, Phyuzin Toe Myint, Chit Soe
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Jersey City, Journal Square, Stanley Theater [PDF]
The 4,300 seat Stanley Theater first opened on March 22, 1928. It was the 2nd largest theater on the East Coast surpassed only by New York's Radio City Music Hall. In every respect it was grandiose.
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A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
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“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change
Abstract Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative research, belief change is studied largely through cognitive and behavioral lenses, that, however valuable, struggle to capture how people ...
Marcel van den Haak, Kamile Grusauskaite
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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