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Manufacturing Japanese Reformation: Kamakura Buddhism in Early Showa Historiography

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Few comparative frameworks in the historiography of Japanese religion have proven more durable, or more contested, than the analogy between the “New Buddhism” of the Kamakura period and the Protestant Reformation. This article traces the construction and consolidation of this analogy from its first systematic articulation by the historian Hara
Orion Klautau
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Ecology in Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance: A Four‐Level Reconstruction

Dialog, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 36-44, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article discusses Hartmut Rosa's sociological theory of resonance with special emphasis on religion and ecology. In Rosa, resonance experiences refer to (always) participatory and (normally) enlivening world relations. I argue that Rosa's resonance theory is multi‐pronged and covers at least three interconnected levels.
Niels Henrik Gregersen
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Public Theology as Mediation: Navigating the Dutch Protestant Church's Public Calling in a Hypermediated World☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 94-114, January 2026.
Abstract The article explores Christianity's role in society through public theology, particularly in relation to the public calling of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN). It advocates for reflecting on the dichotomy of church/world through the lens of divine mediation, challenging traditional dualisms and emphasizing a ‘soft difference ...
Rachèl Blokhuis‐Koopman
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A modernidade: uma nova (era) cultura axial?

Política & Sociedade, 2017
A proposição de uma era axial, durando aproximadamente entre 800 e 200 a.C. e ocorrendo nas principais civilizações do mundo antigo (China, Índia e Oriente Próximo), independentes umas das outras, foi primeiramente introduzida por Alfred Weber e Karl ...
Wolfgang Schluchter
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Gadamer, Paul and Inspired Speech in Corinth

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 88-102, January 2026.
Abstract The goal of this article is to elucidate two aspects of Hans‐Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics that impinge on the question of transcendence and then to bring them into conversation with the Apostle Paul’s discussion of divinely inspired speech in Corinth.
Benjamin A. Edsall
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-519, December 2025.
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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Sacral rulers in pre-Christian Scandinavia: The possibilities of typological comparisons within the paradigm of cultural evolution

Temenos, 2016
This article offers a new perspective on the century-old discussion of sacral rulers in the history of religions generally, and pre-Christian Scandinavian religions specifically, namely the application of a cultural evolutionary theoretical framework ...
Simon Nygaard
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Civil Religion in the Discourse of Frederick Douglass

Altralang Journal
The concept of “civil religion” harks back to the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Emile Durkheim but its significance in United States context has been pointed out by Robert Bellah in his 1967 seminal article “Civil Religion in America”.
Souad BAGHLI BERBAR
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Udstigere og immunsystemer, asketer og akrobater. Om Peter Sloterdijks Du musst dein Leben ändern. Über Anthropotechnik

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2013
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A presentation and discussion of Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental work from 2009, You Must Change Your Life. The author regards asceticism (in the etymological sense of exercise, training) both as an anthropological constant, the rea-son ...
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common

Criminology &Public Policy, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 189-207, May 2025.
Abstract Research Summary In recent years, nutrition researchers have found that ice cream may have as many health benefits as low‐fat milk or yoghurt for those with diabetes or at risk of diabetes. Nonetheless, they have resisted reporting this finding to the media, the public, or other researchers.
Gary LaFree
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