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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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Liberation Psychology from an Islamic Perspective: Some Theoretical and Practical Implications of Psychology with a Telos of Justice
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )Liberation psychology is an emerging field of psychological theory with an orientation towards justice as the telos of psychology. Rejecting the traditional European psychological practices which have based psychological ... -
The End of Suffering: Mysticism, Messianism, and Medicine in Lubavitch
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )This paper examines understandings of evil, suffering, and sickness among Lubavitcher Hasidim, a group well known for their messianic assertions. It problematizes the relationship between theological teachings and how ... -
Born Again with Trump: The Portrayal of Evangelicals in the Media
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )Since Trump’s ascendancy in American politics and his subsequent election, a number of articles have surfaced in the media trying to explain evangelical voters’ support of Trump. This paper analyzes common descriptions and ... -
Prolegomena to a Study of the Religious and Cultural Networks Linking the Romanian Communities of Medieval Transylvania
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )A critical survey of the religious medieval monuments and art of the western Carpathian mountains, Lower Mureş Valley, and the Hațeg region witnesses to the history of Romanian communities in what was once part of the ... -
Depictions of the Other in the Paintings of Bucovina’s Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Orthodox Monasteries
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )Several churches and monasteries commissioned by the rulers of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Moldavia are decorated with frescoes colorfully adorning their exterior walls, eight of which are on UNESCO’s list of world ... -
Schools, Clubs, and Enterprise: Clusters of Social and Religious Coexistence in Ottoman Salonica
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )By the turn of the twentieth century, considerable change in several aspects of social life was obvious in the Levantine ports, stemming largely as a result of developments in the Ottoman economy and expansion of trade in ... -
The Vision of the Balkans in Musical Culture: Between Viennese Operetta and Eurovision
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )This article addresses the representation and conceptualization of the Balkans in musical culture since the nineteenth century. It argues that typical strategies of (self-)exoticizing and the approximation of dominant ... -
The Role of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the Subject of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews During the Holocaust (1941-1944)
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )Generations of Bulgarians have been inspired by the national legend relating how the Bulgarian state and its monarch, King, Boris III, mobilized to save Bulgaria’s 48,000 Jews, plus more than 11,000 Jews in regions annexed ... -
Between Repair and Humiliation: Religious Buildings, Memorials, and Identity Politics in Post-war Sarajevo
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )This article examines how, in a post-war setting, memorialization and the increasing presence of religious buildings support not only processes of repair and dealing with a difficult past, but also of sustaining conflict ... -
Negotiating Empowerment: A Critical Ethnography of Hijabi Women in Sarajevo
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )This ethnographic study explores the daily enactments and negotiations of self and religious practice performed by hijabi women living in Sarajevo, a city marked by gender inequality in social and economic rights on one ... -
Expected and Unexpected Authorship of Religious Elements in Late Nineteenth, Early Twentieth Century Bucharest Architecture
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )The hodge-podge architectural heritage is among Bucharest’s most unique attractions, a result of the multicultural background of those who contributed to its modernization. In this respect, a paramount role was played by ... -
Introduction
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )Keywords: religious history, culture, Balkans -
Evolution, Human Enhancement, and Human Nature: Four Challenges to Essentialism in Theological Anthropology
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )The Christian theological tradition has been predominantly essentialist: it has held that creation is ordered by God’s providential work into natural kinds, and that each kind exemplifies a nature proper to it. Yet ... -
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Forests and Economic Development: The Case of Traditional Ecological Management
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )Remnant Afromontane forests in northern Ethiopia are under threat from development pressures both within Ethiopia and from international interests. These biodiversity hotspots are currently protected by the Ethiopian ... -
An Innovator, by Any Other Name: The Mujaddid and the Rhetoric of Islamic Renewal
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )This study addresses the question of reform in Islam as formulated under the rubric of “renewal” (tajdid). As an idea, tajdid arises from a hadith in which God promises to send a “renewer” (mujaddid) at the turn of each ... -
Creation and Theodicy in the Context of Climate Change: A New Cosmology for the Anthropocene?
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )The Bible was composed during the Holocene era, which was characterized by a stable climate enabling humans and human civilization to grow and flourish. The biblical cosmology, as expressed through its creation stories and ... -
Reformations in Reading: Short Bibles and the Aesthetics of Abridgment
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )This article takes up a period in the Bible’s history of publication when the text was redacted to approximately half of its original size. In the mid-twentieth century, editors, publishers, and book designers worked to ... -
The Amish Ordnung: A Shared Double Consciousness
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )This study takes a critical anthropological approach to examining and critiquing the notion of religious reform from culturally diverse perspectives. It compares Evangelical Lutheran, Mennonite Brethren, and Old Order Amish ... -
Reforming Our Responses to Crime: Recent Papal Contributions
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )Pope Francis and his immediate predecessors, Benedict XVI and John Paul II, offer a positive vision of an appropriate societal response to crime and to criminals by emphasizing human dignity, rehabilitation, and social ... -
Failed Expectations: The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Church
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )During the latter half of the sixteenth century, a handful of Tübingen theologians initiated informal correspondence with the ecumenical patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Jeremias II of Constantinople, in which they expressed ...
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