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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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Revivalism and Reconstructionism in Islamic Reform: Intellectual Trends in Modernist Maghribi Thought
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )Modernist Islamic thought has grown in a variety of ways for the last two centuries. This paper argues that two distinct directions can be detected in the works of contemporary Muslim thinkers in the Maghrib, namely ... -
Forest Cathedrals: “The Hidden Glory” of Hudson River Landscapes
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )This essay analyses masterpieces of Hudson River School landscape painting within relevant religious, artistic, and literary contexts. The Hudson River School, America’s first indigenous art movement, included Thomas Cole, ... -
Selfies as Secular Religion: Transcending the Self
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )This article argues that contemporary selfie-practice sometimes display patterns that have otherwise been associated with religion. Selfies manifesting ideals, or with a more crude description bragging-selfies, can be shown ... -
Toward the Integral Development of Students in Canadian Catholic High School Athletics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )This paper, based upon interviews and focus groups conducted with 15-year-old student-athletes at two Catholic high schools in Edmonton, Canada, explains how religion and spirituality supported students’ integral development. ... -
Three Approaches to Sport: The Vatican, the International Olympic Committee, and the United Nations
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )The Vatican, the International Olympic Committee, and the United Nations have in common a vision of sport that is related to personal growth and is able to foster encounters between people, and help to bring about peace ... -
Persons First, Athletes Second: If Aquinas Came to the English Premier League
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )This essay draws on the author’s applied experience of delivering sport psychology support to professional soccer players in the English Premier League (EPL). The work of a sports psychologist at senior levels is focused ... -
Paradigms of Sport: Indian-Catholic Reflections
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )Catholic reflections on sport in India need to proceed in a comparatively interreligious way with Hinduism, which is the major and most diffused religion in India. In this dialogical approach, which is very much in keeping ... -
Football Plus Human and Spiritual Formation: The Sports Pastoral at Santo Domingo Parish, Managua
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )In this article the sports pastoral in Managua, Nicaragua started by the Our Lady of Guadalupe Christian Life Community and supported by the local Jesuit parish is described and research with participants is shared that ... -
From Play to Virtue: The Social, Moral, and Religious Dimensions of Youth Sport
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )Drawing on Brown’s exegetical exploration of Wisdom’s paideia in the Book of Wisdom, we show how sports understood as play are an invaluable means of moral as well as spiritual education. Playing sports, we argue, fosters ... -
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Bishop Sheil, the CYO, and Reflections for Our Times
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2019. )This article examines the origins and influence of Bishop Bernard Sheil’s Catholic Youth Organization. Interracial and ecumenical from its inception, the CYO, founded in Chicago in 1930, embodied the communal and pluralistic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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