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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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Race, Religion, and Boycotts
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )Using multiple surveys, this study examined the association between attending congregations in which clergy and/or lay persons discussed social-political issues and the perceptions Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics have about ... -
How to Prevent Burnout and Improve Performance? The Role of Perceived Autonomy and Spirituality to Achieve Higher Performance
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship model of perceived autonomy, spirituality, burnout, and performance. The research was conducted on undergraduate students in Indonesian universities, especially ... -
Obesity and Religious Composition: Understanding Obesity Rates in Major U.S. Cities
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )As the obesity epidemic continues to grow in the United States, causing premature death and increased healthcare costs, researchers are investigating the various factors which contribute to obesity. Building on the developed ... -
John A. Ryan and the American Eugenics Society: A Model for Christian Engagement in the Age of “Consumer Eugenics”
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )As global markets generate new genetic services that threaten traditional conceptions of the human person, theologians and religious ethicists are tasked to address what has been called “consumer eugenics,” a value-shaping, ... -
Sports Chaplaincy in Women’s International Soccer Pastoral: Care, Emotional Wellbeing, and Holistic Support
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )In recent years there has been an increasing concern for the holistic wellbeing of elite athletes resulting in the introduction of psychologists, chaplains and other helping professionals into a variety of sports settings. ... -
Listening to Gay Prayers: An Analysis of Prayers from an LGBTQ Church
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )Some researchers suggest that conflict is inherent in identity integration within LGBTQ individuals who are also religious. If so, this likely would be evident in the private religious activity of such individuals, such ... -
Theology in the Wake of Survivor Testimony: Epistemic Injustice and Clergy Sex Abuse
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )This paper develops a theological understanding of the harm done when survivor testimony regarding clergy sex abuse is not believed. Using recent philosophical research in epistemic injustice, I trace the epistemic challenges ... -
Justice-Abuse in the Catholic Church
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )We believe that the continuing emphasis on the sexual-abuse of minors in the Catholic Church, correct though it may be, helps to cover up the justice-abuse of both minors and adults, which is enabled by the exaggerated ... -
The Genesis of Male AUTHORity in the Order of Creation: A Deconstruction Toward Integrity in Justice Discourse
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )This essay presents a critical exploration of the genesis of authority as a male prerogative by examining biblical texts that comprise a sustained gender discourse spanning the length of biblical tradition. Focal texts ... -
“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor” vs. “Invasion!”: Understanding Treatment of Immigrants in the United States by Examining International Laws of War
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )This paper engages in a thought experiment by applying the legal obligations set out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 to the United States government’s treatment of Central American asylum seekers arriving at the southern ... -
“The Leprosy of Lynch Law”: A Jesuit Exchange in La Civiltà Cattolica
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )In 1891-1892, the Roman Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica published three texts addressing the morality of lynching in the United States – an exchange prompted by the lynching of eleven Italians/Italian Americans in New ... -
Global Migration and Liturgical Imagination: Where Doxology Meets Righteous Action
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )While fences, walls, and ever more dehumanizing restrictions on migrants and asylum seekers go up in various continents, Christians are increasingly realizing that their religious commitments demand an ethical as well as ... -
Just Immigration and the Social Gospel
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )This essay reconsiders the nation’s current immigration problems by examining how social gospel leaders faced the country’s first immigration laws based on the standards they devised and asks who, if any, exemplified the ... -
Taking Hold of Reality: White Protestant Theology and Racism at the End of White Christian America
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )This essay places twentieth century white U.S. Protestant theology in conversation with the liberation theologies of Ignacio Ellacuría and James Cone. Drawing on Ellacuría’s belief that theology begins with “taking hold ... -
Climate Justice: Essential to the Church’s Mission
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )This essay argues that climate justice understood as faithful, prudent action to address climate change is essential to the mission of the Catholic Church. The first section outlines Catholic ecclesiology, missiology, and ... -
The Recursive Violence of Anthropological Exceptionalism: Toward the Ecological Transformation of Dignity
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )Prevalent theological concepts of human dignity purport to safeguard human lives equally, but in fact, because they ground human inviolability in assumptions of the violation and violability of animal lives, they expose ... -
Religion and Justice in the Church Courts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Nineteenth Century
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints relied on their church court system for seeking “justice” or the cause of Zion throughout the nineteenth century for a variety of practical and theological reasons. First, ... -
Different Forms of Religiousness and Their Complex Relationship with Prejudice
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )A century of theoretical and empirical work in the psychology of religion has attempted to establish the links between different forms of religiousness and various types of prejudice. The present study examined the connection ... -
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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 ...
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