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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 217-228, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 360-373, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
wiley   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 2-10, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Treat Other Ways of Being Generously Through the Biblical Studies Classroom

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 69-76, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article outlines an approach to teaching the biblical texts that helps students develop the transferable cognitive skill of understanding the other on their own terms. It appeals to research on threshold concepts, deep and surface approaches to learning, and student centered/conceptual change approaches to teaching to combine the role of ...
John Van Maaren
wiley   +1 more source

Worshipping God to Stay Alive and Staying Alive to Worship God: A Study of Roman Catholic Church’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Nsukka, Nigeria

open access: yesNsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies
This article examines the management of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Roman Catholic Church in Nsukka, Nigeria. By management, we mean how the Roman Catholic church in Nsukka makes sure that its congregations adhere to the COVID-19 protocols. A survey was
Kingsley I. Uwaegbute , Damian O. Odo
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