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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Toward a Global Bioethics: Principlism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 5-11, January 2026.ABSTRACT Tom Beauchamp and James Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics introduced principlism—or the “four principles approach”—which has since become one of the most influential frameworks in contemporary bioethics. However, its potential to serve as a foundation for shared transcultural bioethical norms has elicited both substantial support and
Marco Annoni
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Induced abortion in the world: 1. Perception of abortion throughout the centuries and by religions
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 171, Issue 3, Page 1148-1155, December 2025.Abstract Induced abortion has religious, moral, and cultural dimensions that place it at the center of major ethical debates. The interest of women caught in the middle of this never‐ending controversy requires that a dialogue replaces current confrontation.
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 385-395, December 2025.ABSTRACT In this article, I focus on three embodied aspects of the ultra‐Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish Shabbat: clothing, meals, and appropriate conversation topics. Jewish law, alongside traditions and customs developed over the years, mandates changes during the Sabbath, including prohibitions and restrictions.
Stav Shufan‐Biton
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The Off‐Tonic Recapitulation in Context: a Study in Fuzziness
Music Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 372-392, October 2025.ABSTRACT The double return of the principal theme and home key has long held pride of place in theories of sonata form. For James Webster (2001) it is the paramount feature of sonata form; similarly, for James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (2006) it is the feature that lies at the heart of their sonata‐theory typology, distinguishing between their types 1,
YOEL GREENBERG
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Alternative Splicing Regulation in Metabolic Disorders
Obesity Reviews, Volume 26, Issue 9, September 2025.ABSTRACT Alternative splicing (AS) is a fundamental mechanism for enhancing transcriptome diversity and regulating gene expression, crucial for various cellular processes and the development of complex traits. This review examines the role of AS in metabolic disorders, including obesity, weight loss, dyslipidemias, and metabolic syndrome.
Dorota Kaminska
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