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One Stone, Two Birds: A New Life for Industrial Relations and a Saved One for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the first 100 days of the Trump II Administration, DEI took a body blow. Moreover, in August 2026, former professor Jason Arday's unravelling (and now tragic death) has put conjecture about DEI at the epicentre of community discourse and emboldened critics.
Anthony M. Gould, Jean‐Etienne Joullié, Guillaume Desjardins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black churches and their communities : an exploration of the impact of a declining prophetic voice and space.

, 2023
Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, 2021.Since the founding of The Invisible Institution during slavery circa 1619 to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the Black Church has been a visible presence in and viable voice of the ...
Dixon, Lewis J., McMickle, Marvin Andrew
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Religious testimonial narratives and social construction of identity: Insights from prophetic ministries in Botswana

Cogent Social Sciences, 2017
Giving a testimony forms a central part of the religious practices among Pentecostal churches including prophetic ministries. Testimony links the understanding of one’s religious experience and the configuration of the divine intervention. Utilizing data
Gabriel Faimau
doaj   +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

Adapting prophetic sociopolitical witness to coalition governments in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
There has been an outcry over the lack of effectiveness of the Church’s prophetic sociopolitical witness in recent years in South Africa. This practical theological article uses Heitink’s empirical-hermeneutic-strategic approach and participatory action ...
Arthur R. Tucker
doaj   +1 more source

Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
wiley   +1 more source

The New Apostolic Reformation: The critical reflections of the ecclesiology of Charles Peter Wagner

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Charles Peter Wagner is a well-known missiologist and ecclesiologist of the latest era. He is the author, trainer and prayer warrior who founded the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) that seeks to establish a fourth house.
Kelebogile Resane
doaj   +1 more source

“Go Ahead and Bring Me Up on Charges—The Rocks Will Sing Out”: Organizational Structure, Ally Activism, and the Struggle for Marriage Equality in the UMC

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After decades of struggle, the United Methodist Church (UMC) removed all LGBTQ‐restrictive language from its Book of Discipline in 2024, overturning exclusionary policies that forbid same‐sex weddings and the ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy. This research sheds light on the activism that preceded institutional change within the UMC.
Nancy L. Malcom, Melinda D. Kane
wiley   +1 more source

African Initiated Churches

, 2007
Idioms of African religion have enabled African men and women to respond to Christianity and to place their hopes in it. The idioms and new ideas of missions had a tremendous influence on the prophetic, spiritual African churches, helping to ensure that
Terence Ranger
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source