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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
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

Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern 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

Insight Into the Role of Protestant Christianity in the Experience of Living With a Suicidal Relative: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
Hennipman-Herweijer C   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
wiley   +1 more source

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