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Robert Bellah on the origins of religion. A Critical Review [PDF]
Revue de l'histoire des religions, 2012 This book, as hefty as it is ambitious, represents the opus maximum of the great American sociologist of religion Robert Bellah. The author establishes his quest, from the ‘big Bang’ to Karl Jaspers’ ‘axial age,’ in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E., upon Durkeimian and Weberian principles, and studies in turn the civilizations of Israel, of ...
Stroumsa, Guy G.
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The Duality of American Christian Nationalism: Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 770-801, December 2023., 2023 Abstract While posited as a unified ideology, Christian Nationalism (CN) actually contains two distinct views of what it means to be a “Christian Nation”—one which envisions a Christian civil society separate from the profanities of politics, what we call “Religious Traditionalism.” The other envisions a Christian federal government where power is ...
Ruiqian Li, Paul Froese
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The freedom narrative and the War on Terror: Civil‐religious idolatry for the 9/11 generation
Peace &Change, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 298-312, October 2023., 2023 Abstract The dominant narrative by which political and military leaders justified the American War on Terror held that America was attacked on 9/11 because America is “the brightest beacon of freedom and opportunity in the world.” Today, an entire generation has been raised in the shadow of 9/11 and steeped in a dualistic and militaristic understanding
Ryan T. O'Leary
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Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 221-241, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Social surveys normally assume that respondents adhere to a single religious faith in belonging, believing, and practicing congruently. Some surveys even take religious identity as the singular measure of religiosity and examine its relationship with other variables. This practice, however, fails to capture nonexclusive and hybrid religiosity,
Fenggang Yang, Brian L. McPhail
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Robert N. Bellah’s comparative and cultural sociology appears compatible with an evolutionary science and seeks to investigate the cultural developments of biological beginnings. The behavioral and symbolic aspects of evolution according to Bellah build on genetic capacities, they are however not genetically controlled and it is there that Bellah tries
L. Gattamorta
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EXPERIENCING THE WORLD AS THE EVOLVED IMAGE OF GOD: RELIGION IN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENCE
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 485-503, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Religion must be seen as the result of the learning processes of humanity, as they manifest themselves in human interaction with and experience of reality. Such interaction depends on knowledge that provides the basis for practices of orientation and transformation.
Jan‐Olav Henriksen
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TRACING DISTINCTIVE HUMAN MORAL EMOTIONS? THE CONTRIBUTION OF A THEOLOGY OF GRATITUDE
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 522-538, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Darwin thought that the moral sense was among the most challenging aspects of human life to account for through evolutionary explanations. This article seeks to probe the question about human uniqueness primarily from a theological perspective by focusing in depth on one distinctive moral sentiment, gratitude, particularly in the thought of ...
Celia Deane‐Drummond
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Attaching shame to hierarchy and hierarchy to some versions of attachment
Ethos, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 47-61, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Attachment theory sees individual autonomy as childrearing practices’ appropriate goal. But many people in the world do not share attachments theorists’ validation of autonomy. They instead believe that they should train their children into behavior appropriate to hierarchical relationships, ones predicated on differences in obligations and ...
Ward Keeler
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The Study of the Past and its Present Challenges in the Study of Religions
Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 642-652, December 2022., 2022 The article comments on the three challenges, which Mattias Brand presents in the Introduction: the questioning of central concepts, multiplication and fragmentation, and communication with a large audience. It also comments on Nickolas P. Roubekas article, “Asking Old Questions Anew: On the History of Religions.” The author stresses the lack of ...
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
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Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2023 Approaching the numinous is something that has forged a deep bond between art and religion in European cultural history. In the wake of Kant and Schleiermacher, the German theologian Ulrich Barth elaborates four constitutive elements that distinguish ...
Jörg Lauster
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