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The Journal of Religion & Society is a cross-disciplinary, electronic journal published by the Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University.
The Journal of Religion & Society has been established to promote the cross-disciplinary study of religion and its diverse social dimensions through the publication of research articles, essays and opinions, review articles, and book reviews. The focus of the journal is American religions and Western religious traditions.
The Journal of Religion & Society is a refereed academic journal dedicated to the publication of scholarly research in religion and its diverse social dimensions (ISSN: 1522-5658). All submissions to the journal will be subject to blind peer review. The journal also publishes a Supplement Series (ISSN: 1941-8450) consisting of occasional collections of essays on a particular theme or topic. The journal welcomes proposals for the Supplement Series.
The journal will accept submissions on an ongoing basis, and will publish new material periodically throughout the year. Each volume of the journal will be limited to material published within a given calendar year.
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The journal is open-access and freely allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all published material for personal or academic purposes.
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Ideology in Biology: Theism Meets Atheism in the Case of Abiogenesis
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Abiogenesis is the proposed process through which inanimate matter eventually led to life on earth. As a research area, the issue is certainly loaded with fodder for debate and philosophical and ideological disagreement ... -
The Incompatibility of Christianity with Racism and Capitalism
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Authentic Contextualization and Church Growth: The Case of Catholicism in Malawi 1889–2000
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Malawian culture was denunciated and demonized as irrational and unbiblical by the early Catholic missionaries from the West. However, this negative attitude toward Malawian culture largely succeeded in hindering Catholic ... -
On the Profit of Protestant Wives
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The American Church and the Americans with Disabilities Act
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From the Editor’s Desk: Looking Forward to the Next Twenty Years
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Introduction
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The New Politics of Religious Freedom: Humanitarian Aid and Sanctuary as Religious Mandates
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Interreligious organizations that provide aid to immigrants are changing the way scholars and the public understand religious freedom in the United States. Members of these organizations draw on laws and ideals of free ... -
From Word to Flesh: Embodied Racism and the New Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Drawing on resources from the philosophical tradition of phenomenology and putting them into dialogue with an important theme in Christian theology, I argue that there is a distinctly non-discursive, embodied form of racism ... -
Dignity and Freedom in the Classroom: A Catholic Framework for Navigating Trumpism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )The politics of Trumpism have engendered new norms for public discourse, which affect teaching and learning in higher education. This essay examines resources in Catholic higher education for providing a framework to ... -
An Interpretive Model of Privileged Contempt: Understanding Disdain Toward Those of Lower Status, from Ancient Israel to the New American Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Biblical studies has made strides in drawing meaningful connections between systemic poverty in the biblical worlds and today. However, perhaps just as important as connecting the tools and effects of these systems is ... -
New Politics, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and LGBT Legislation: A Critical Analysis
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Our focus in this essay is on the divisions the new politics promotes surrounding sex and sexualities and how the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is fostering these divisions legally, theological-ant ... -
U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Discussion of President Obama vs. President Trump, 2014–2019
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Scholars have noted shared priorities and organizational ties between American Catholic leadership and the Republican Party arising since the 1970s and continuing today. Does American Catholic leadership withhold clear ... -
Catholic Social Teaching, Laudato Sí, and the Green New Deal
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )The Green New Deal (GND) is a very ambitious mission statement for a just transition to a low carbon economy whose starting point was not perceived political possibility but the boundaries of the climate system, for a ... -
From the “Culture of Death” to the “Crisis of Liberalism”: Recent Shifts in Catholic Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This article identifies and assesses some of the shifts that have occurred in conservative Catholic politics in the United States over the last twenty years. For much of the late 1990s and early 2000s, a politics focused ... -
Countering the Politics of Fear: Insights from the Life & Theology of Uganda’s John Mary Waliggo
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This article introduces Fr. John Mary Waliggo (1942–2008), the foremost Catholic public intellectual in post-colonial Uganda. In his personal life, priestly ministry, and extensive government work, Waliggo built a public ... -
Growing Age and Education Gaps? The Evolution of Partisan Vote Choice among Religious Voters in the U.S., 2008–2018
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Over the last three decades, two divergent trends help to explain voter support for the two political parties. Voter support for each party by religious affiliation has remained remarkably stable. In contrast, coalitions ... -
Unholy Economics and Environmental Impacts: Reading Revelation’s Great Whore in the Climate Crisis
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Wealth inequality and climate disruption are defining issues of our time. This article addresses ways in which dispensationalist interpretations of the book of Revelation shape decision making on these issues in the age ... -
Beyond Western Civilization: Toward the Recentering of Catholic Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )A number of Catholic political movements have developed in recent decades contesting Catholic accommodations with political liberalism since World War II, particularly in the areas of human rights and religious liberty. ... -
Doing God: Reading the UK General Election Campaign (November 6 – December 12, 2019) through the Lens of Religion
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )This study evaluates the relationship between political engagement and religious interest in British society. The paper examines this relationship through the lens of the general election campaign in December 2019 in which ...
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