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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom

Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 46-54, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Beyond Institutional Boundaries: The Relationship Between the Personal Networks of Young People in Residential Care and Their Sense of Belonging

Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 1150-1160, May 2026.
ABSTRACT A sense of belonging is a basic human need that relates to the feeling of social connectedness and closeness one has in one's social world. Moving to a residential care facility can have far‐reaching effects on young people's sense of belonging, as it usually causes a reconfiguration of their personal network.
Lukas Fellmann, Carole Zellner, Tobias Kindler, Stefan Köngeter, Jana Osswald, Dorothee Schaffner, Thomas Schmid   +6 more
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“But from the beginning it was not so”: The Jewish Apocalyptic Context of Jesus’ Teaching on Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
This paper examines Jesus' teachings on marriage, divorce, and celibacy in the Synoptic Gospels, with a special focus on the "exception" clauses of Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9, in order to understand these teachings in the context of the Hebrew Bible ...
John W. Martens
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Using the Educator–Student Relationship in Mental Health Education to Teach Relational Processes

Family Process, Volume 65, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Clinical education requires both conceptual mastery and relational aptitude. Developing therapeutic presence through content mastery alone may fall short because relational skills are learned through attuned relationships. Relational teaching in mental health education espouses the use of the educator–student relationship to foster relational ...
Kelly Duggan Shearer
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Adolescence under fire: a multi‐method study of psychological vulnerability and resilience among adolescents impacted by war

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 366-379, March 2026.
Background Given the long‐term negative impact of exposure to military conflict, identifying its immediate psychological effects is crucial to develop prevention and intervention approaches, especially in adolescents, a group particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges. Methods We examined 198 war‐exposed Israeli adolescents (Mage = 16.35 years;
Liann Haham, Idan M. Aderka, Daniel S. Pine, Rany Abend, Tomer Shechner   +4 more
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The Revival of Mishnah Study in the Early Modern Period [PDF]

, 2008
Upon its completion in the sixth century C.E., the Gemara, the rabbinic commentary to the Mishnah, the authoritative corpus of Jewish law, became the primary focus of Jewish study and intellectual effort while the Mishnah itself was largely neglected ...
Faleck, David
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From Rabbis and Millenarians to High Church Orthodoxy: Edward Bernard (1638-1697) Reads the 1646 Amsterdam Vocalized Mishnah [PDF]

, 2023
The vocalized edition of the Mishnah (the ancient compilation of Jewish oral teachings) published in Amsterdam in 1646 has long been an object of fascination to scholars.
Roebuck, Thomas
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Untranslating Maḥloqet: Halakhic Pluralism and Halakhic Censure

Religions
This article offers a conceptual and historical analysis of the rabbinic term maḥloqet, arguing that it functions not merely as a descriptor of disagreement but as a culturally embedded legal category with shifting meanings and purposes across rabbinic ...
Noam Hoffmann
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To the advantage of the Republic of Letters?: Gulielmus Surenhusius’s Projects, Plans, and Collaborations Beyond the Mishnah [PDF]

, 2022
This chapter demonstrates how Guilielmus Surenhusius tried to make a career out of both the Mishnah specifically and Hebrew studies more generally through the book trade and the publishing of Hebrew works.
van Boxel, Piet, LS Cultuurgeschiedenis, van Miert, Dirk, Weinberg, Joanna, OGKG - Cultuurgeschiedenis, MacFarlane, Kirsten   +5 more
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The magic of the Mezuzah in rabbinic literature

Nordisk Judaistik, 1994
The notion that the mezuzah – the capsule containing a parchment strip on which is written Deut 6:4-9 and 11:13-21 and which is attached to the doorposts of a Jewish home – is protective has been explained in different ways.
Eva-Maria Jansson
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