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Efficiency in the Global Prison System: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study systematizes the international literature on prison system efficiency, highlighting patterns and research gaps through a multidimensional framework. By situating efficiency within broader institutional, social, and rights‐based contexts, it examines how academic research has assessed carceral performance.
Leandro Moreira, Enzo Barberio Mariano, Diogo Ferraz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä, Pietari Hannikainen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Konsep Taubat Tarekat Naqshabandîyah Muzharîyah

Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam, 2015
Sufism which was originally the activities of individuals to get closer to Allah has become an institution of tarekat in its development and has rules and procedures for the dhikr or wird.
M. Sholeh Hoddin
doaj  

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

‘I am the Living Bread’: Ram Mohan Roy’s Critique of the Doctrine of the Atonement [PDF]

, 2017
A striking aspect of Vedantic Hindu and Christian devotional universes is the theme of the humanity of God. Jesus and Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, the transcendental source of worldly reality, are also intensely human figures – they live with and amidst human beings,
Barua, Ankur
core   +2 more sources

Deception behind bars: A mixed‐methods investigation of inmates' beliefs about lie detection

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose This study examines incarcerated individuals' beliefs about deception detection, focusing on perceptions of successful liars, cues used to identify deception and endorsement of stereotypical beliefs. Methods A mixed‐methods design combining qualitative and quantitative methods was used.
Andreea Turi, Laura Visu‐Petra
wiley   +1 more source

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

Repentance and the Reversal of Time: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Temporal Philosophy

Religions
This article discusses the dominant understanding of the concept of repentance in the thought of the Jewish philosopher Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and the original interpretation he offers of this religious idea.
Roni Bar Lev, Hananel Rosenberg, Chen Sabag-Ben Porat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Luther\u27s Enchiridion as Resource for Spiritual Formation [PDF]

, 1988
(Excerpt) My purpose in this essay is to consider Luther\u27s Small Catechism as a resource for the spiritual formation of the faithful. That aim brings with it a number of automatic consequences.
Truemper, David G
core   +1 more source

Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
wiley   +1 more source