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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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Who Lynches on the Frontier? Select Jesuit References and the Wild West Paradigm
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 24, 2022. )Contemporary historians of Western lynching point out that the influential frontier justice interpretation has many weaknesses, especially its inattention to the role of race and ethnicity. Selected Jesuit incidental ... -
Observations on Why Promotors of Italian American Culture Need to Know More: The Italian/American Experience of Religion
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 24, 2022. )This essay sheds light on the misconception that Catholicism is an essential characteristic to Italian/American and, hence, Italian identity. Through a brief examination of the demographic make-up of Italy’s population, ... -
Abortion Legality and Morality: A Preliminary Investigation Examining the Influence of Religiosity on Abortion Attitudes Among a Sample of US Latinxs
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 24, 2022. )Religiosity is a common predictor of abortion attitudes, especially among US Latinx. In this article, we examine religiosity, operationalized in various ways (e.g., affiliation, beliefs, practices), and abortion attitudes ... -
Coronation in Physics: String Theory and the Pursuit of the Theory of Everything
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 24, 2022. )This study examines the popularization of string theory in science literature and documentary film, which is presented to audiences with emphasis on the irreconcilability of two key paradigms in physics, quantum mechanics ... -
Christianity and the "Others": On Conversion of the Tangkhul Nagas
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This article explores the attitudinal and ideological underpinning of the Christian conversion of a society in northeastern India. It is a modest attempt to demonstrate that the methods of conversion employed by the ... -
The Malediction of a "False Idea of Freedom"
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Today, freedom is often seen as a negative quality, relieved of constraints and unhitched from morality. This libertarian concept of freedom clashes with more positive notions of freedom as "power to do good," found in ... -
Exploring Sports Ministry in the UK: National Trends and Local Expressions
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )In recent years, sport has grown exponentially as a major economic force in the UK, and historically speaking has flourished in both faith-based and secular environments. Building on the "muscular Christian" pedigree of ... -
On Being Together: The Role of Lived Experience in Scriptural Reasoning
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )In the multicultural city of London, there is a widely acknowledged need for context-based, grassroots approaches to interfaith engagement that take local communities and practice into consideration. As a tool for ... -
Jihad and the Sect: Sunni and Shia Interpretations of Striving in the Path of God
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This article investigates sectarian-based interpretations of jihad as a concept and practice. It explores similarities and differences between Sunni and Shiite approaches to the notion of jihad and its fundamental principles. ... -
Performance in Boko Haram’s Religious Fanaticism
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )The activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria evolved within a very short time from a religious sect professing hatred for western values, into a violent dissident group. The group has become a threat to the social and political ... -
Exoticizing Terrorism: Religious Bias and the Unchecked Threat of Evangelical Christian Extremism in Brazil
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Since the start of the 21st century, Brazil has been experiencing a rapidly escalating problem with Evangelical Christian extremism. Persons referring to themselves as “armies of Jesus” have been assaulting devotees of ... -
Individual Religiosity and Social Trust in the U.S., 2004
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This study examines the association between an individual’s religiosity and social trust. Using The Baylor Religion Survey I examine two general models of an individual’s religiosity and how religiosity influences social ... -
Addressing the Unaddressed: Changemakers’ Hopes for the Future around Issues of Sexuality in Catholic Higher Education—Theological Insights
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Issues of sexuality in Catholic higher education often go unaddressed, under examined, or handled with inadequate care. In a larger study of the experience of 31 changemakers at 17 different Catholic colleges and universities, ... -
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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On the Profit of Protestant Wives
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The American Church and the Americans with Disabilities Act
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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 ... -
From the Editor’s Desk: Looking Forward to the Next Twenty Years
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Introduction
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