“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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"Praying in or preying on my skin": a narrative study of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals' experiences with religion and gender identity in India. [PDF]
Front SociolAshok S, Saranya TS.
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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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Christian perspectives on palliative sedation: a literature study. [PDF]
BMC Palliat CareLambaerts J, Broeckaert B.
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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
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The importance of parents' communication and social environment in childhood cancer. [PDF]
Eur J PediatrNizamis K +6 more
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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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Students' attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion: a cross-cultural study in three Mediterranean countries. [PDF]
BMC Med EthicsTutić Grokša I +14 more
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Critical Dogmatics and the God of Easter: Paul Hinlicky\u27s \u3cem\u3eBeloved Community\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 Mattox, Mickey L.
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