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Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä, Pietari Hannikainen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

“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
wiley   +1 more source

Editing Eden: CRISPR, the Image of God, and the Ethics of Genetic Intervention. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Oh JJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Stem Cell Research, Cloning And Catholic Moral Theology [PDF]

, 2005
Fabbro, Ronald
core   +1 more source

The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the Sacred Chamber: The Cultural and Ethical Odyssey of Cardiac Surgery. [PDF]

J Cardiovasc Dev Dis
Leivaditis V, Mavroudes G, Mulita F, Baikoussis NG, Papatriantafyllou A, Garantzioti V, Tasios K, Tchabashvili L, Litsas D, Katsakiori P, Assimakopoulos SF, Nikolakopoulos K, Antzoulas A, Liolis E, Papadoulas S, Koletsis E, Dahm M.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Soldiers, not by choice: confronting conscription as a public health harm. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Eur
Rogers SC, Hurley O'Dwyer R.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Earth System in the Anthropocene and the Primacy of Joint Collective Ownership

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Dominic Lenzi
wiley   +1 more source