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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
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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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Review Essay: The Resurgence of Virtue in Recent Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2014
While virtue was a significant player in Patristics and Medieval theology, its role after these periods diminished. There has, however, been increased emphasis paid to virtue leading up to Vatican II.
David Cloutier, William C. Mattison III
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Formed in the Image of Christ : The Sacramental-Moral Theology of Bernard Häring, C.Ss.R.

, 2004
The Christian life is an imitation of Christ\u27s response to God—a religious response to God’s initiative. We are called to make all responses—religion and morality—acts of adoring worship and praise.
Cahalan, Kathleen A.
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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The Luminous Excess of the Acting Person: Assessing the Impact of Pope John Paul II on American Catholic Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2012
Pope St. John Paul II’s influence on the field of Catholic moral theology has been highly contested. By examining at two of the late pontiff’s major projects – Theology on the Body and Veritatis Splendor – this influence is seen to be centered around an ...
John S. Grabowski
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Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
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Moral Teleology and Moral Theology in the Kritik der Urteilskraft

, 2013
The essay has the aim to show the significant difference between the moral theology as it is expounded in the last section of the «Kritik der Urteilskraft» and its former models, and argues that this difference results form the presence of a new ...
GONNELLI, Filippo
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Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro‐level measures that overlook how individuals are actually exposed to religious pluralism in their lives. This study shifts focus to the meso‐level by examining
Elis Carlberg Larsson
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Who Is (Not) Afraid of Immigration? A Mediation Analysis Into the Ambivalence of Christian Religiosity for Immigration‐Related Attitudes

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article systematically investigates the mediators linking Christian religiosity to immigration‐related attitudes in Germany. On the basis of current, representative data (ALLBUS 2023), four mediation models reveal multiple pathways through which religiosity shapes such attitudes.
Felix Roleder
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