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Disaster risk reduction and Evangelical Christianity: a case for pluriversality in practice. [PDF]

Disasters
Watson SD.
europepmc   +1 more source

Protecting Mental Health Through Spiritual Awareness and Prayer: Insights From Robustness Testing

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research finds that different kinds of religious engagement, including beliefs, practices, and affinities, are associated with lower rates of depressive symptoms. As rates of depression in the United States rise, and more Americans disaffiliate from formal religious organizations, it is worth revisiting whether these associations hold ...
Evan Stewart, Jaime Kucinskas, Jacqui Frost, Bradley R. E. Wright   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What can the Global South learn from Canada's innovations in pain science? [PDF]

Can J Pain
Lacsa JEM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Easing the Burden? Religiosity and Educational Inequality in Pain Interference

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A consistent inverse gradient in pain prevalence is typically observed across educational strata. Religion stands out as a source of social and personal support that may moderate the amount of chronic pain interference but may do so differently across the educational spectrum.
Laura Upenieks, Markus H. Schafer
wiley   +1 more source

"My Tears Have Been My Food, Both Day and Night": Integrating Theology and Psychology on the Nature of Grief. [PDF]

Religions (Basel)
Hill DL, Wickline S, LeRoy AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Greening of Religion: Developing and Validating a Laudato si’–Grounded Instrument

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of the greening of religion (GoR) has rarely been examined empirically. Existing instruments for measuring environmental attitudes are not designed with religious ecological discourse in mind, nor are they suited to testing its conceptual boundaries.
Jarosław Kozak, Stanisław Fel, Łukasz Gora   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Moral Injury: A Natural Scaffold. [PDF]

J Relig Health
Smith DGS.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Go Ahead and Bring Me Up on Charges—The Rocks Will Sing Out”: Organizational Structure, Ally Activism, and the Struggle for Marriage Equality in the UMC

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After decades of struggle, the United Methodist Church (UMC) removed all LGBTQ‐restrictive language from its Book of Discipline in 2024, overturning exclusionary policies that forbid same‐sex weddings and the ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy. This research sheds light on the activism that preceded institutional change within the UMC.
Nancy L. Malcom, Melinda D. Kane
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Classification Beyond Belonging: Madhehebu as Lived Grammar

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious classifications remain socially meaningful even when people refuse to inhabit the categories they name. This article examines that puzzle through madhehebu, the Swahili term (from Arabic madhhab) used to name Muslim difference. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2022–2026) at Radio Nuur FM—an Islamic station in Tanga, Tanzania, that ...
K. D. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source