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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

open access: yesReview of Economics and Statistics, 2015
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity.
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Surprising Closeness in Latin American Academia: Luther and Certain Neurosciences

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to show a surprising coincidence between Lutheran Protestantism and physicalist neurosciences regarding the negation of free will and how this issue can begin to be studied in Latin American academia.
Martínez-Barrera Jorge
doaj   +1 more source

Ukrainian protestants and Russian catholics: «Ekman Cause» and «Factor of Maidan»

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2015
Ukrainian Protestantism characterized by an eastern and western traditions that allows to recover cultural and theological relationship with European Protestantism and Catholicism in the context of interfaith dialogue.
Mychailo Cherenkov
doaj   +1 more source

Liberal, ecumenical, revolutionary and pluralistic Protestantism in Brazil – a project that has not been extinguished as yet

open access: yesHorizonte, 2015
In recent years, Protestant churches in Brazil have become intolerant to pluralism, opposed to ecumenism and immune to theological criticism. The profile of the current leadership of Brazilian Protestant churches in no way resembles the generation of ...
Carlos Eduardo Brandão Calvani
doaj   +1 more source

From Sexual Diversities to Convergences of Sexualities: Possibilities Within Southern African Protestantism

open access: yesDiaconia, 2015
Framed within queer theory and using Zambian Christian men of same-sex orientation as a case study, this paper explores possibilities for convergences of sexualities in Southern African Protestantism.
Lilly Phiri, Federico Settler
doaj   +1 more source

Features of Philosophical-Theological Dialogue as Factors of the Social Position of Ukrainian Evangelical Protestantism

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2008
"Social theology" and "theology of culture" become relevant discourses of evangelical Protestantism, within which the new identity of the church in a postmodern society is being produced.
Mychailo M. Cherenkov
doaj   +1 more source

Faith, Race-Ethnicity, and Public Policy Preferences: Religious Schemas and Abortion Attitudes among U.S. Latinos

open access: yes, 2012
Research has demonstrated that white conservative Protestants are more opposed to abortion than their Catholic counterparts. At the same time, conservative Protestantism has made significant inroads among U.S. Latinos.
Acevedo, Gabriel A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Protestantism among the Hmong People in the Mountainous Region of Contemporary Northern Vietnam

open access: yesReligions
Since the 1980s, there has been a considerable change in the religious life of the Hmong ethnic communities from the mountainous provinces of northern Vietnam—specifically, their conversion to Protestantism.
Nguyen Khac Duc
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their ...
Johanna Ray Vollhardt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of European Union (EU) Metagovernance in Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

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