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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge and perception of end-of-life bioethics among medical students. A comparative study between the University of Verona (Italy) and the University of Halle (Germany). [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics
Patuzzo Manzati S, Piazza M, Garzon S, Bencivenga M, de Manzoni G, Kremling A, König C, Schildmann J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes toward abortion in the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: A narrative review. [PDF]

Int J Reprod Biomed
Vahidi Mehrjardi S, Vahidi S, Izadi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Spirituality, religious affiliation, and health in Germany: a cross-sectional study including Bayesian network modeling. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Kessler CS, Jeitler M, Ortiz M, Brinkhaus B, Michaelsen MM, Schiele JK, Jeserich F, von Schoen-Angerer T, Teut M, Wischnewsky M.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Associations Between Religious Coping and Anxiety Symptoms Among Emerging Adults in India: Religious Centrality as a Potential Moderator. [PDF]

Int J Psychol
Dedmari HM, Kyndiah MD, Afsar M, Balakrishnan L, Raval VV.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual counselling and women's well-being in orthodox christianity: embryo adoption as surrogate motherhood. [PDF]

Front Glob Womens Health
Tarabrin R.
europepmc   +1 more source