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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
wiley   +1 more source

Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Surrender to God Scale: Relationships with Religious Behavior, God Representation, Well-being, and Health. [PDF]

J Relig Health
Seesink HJ, van Dusseldorp M, Ostafin BD, Schaap-Jonker H, Wiers RW.   +4 more
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

Revisiting the classics on secularization theory. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Gülalp H.
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

Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Bolognesi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

White Religion, Politics, and Racial Resentment in the United States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In popular American discourse, White conservative Christianity is nearly synonymous with both conservative politics and racial resentment. I argue that while White religious conservatives’ racial resentment comports with their politics, racial resentment should be more relevant to political differences among White religious moderates, liberals,
Philip Schwadel
wiley   +1 more source

Action-based explanations as a basis for the analysis and design of the social world. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Maurer A.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Lang M, Palíšek P, Chvaja R.
europepmc   +1 more source