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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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The Christian Imagination and the Anthropocene
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Evidence from Earth system science suggests that we have forced the earth system out of the relatively stable conditions of the Holocene into a new geological epic. Among the implications of this evidence is that human ... -
Jewish Identity and Religious Commitments in the American Midwest: Results of a Limited Study on Interfaith Upbringing
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Previous research on continued religiosity in children of Jewish-Christian parents has provided mixed results. Most research indicates decreased religiosity, while recent research suggests a reverse of that trend among ... -
Mission Trips, Culture and Causality: A Proposal to Re-Think How North Americans Religiously Engage the World
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Analyzing the current reality of contemporary international mission trips reveals deep problems with the way participants are formed, oriented, educated, and engaged as they navigate cultural, social, political, and economic ... -
Religion, Environment, and Economy: Living in a Limited World
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Lynn White, Jr., laid out an intellectual framework that continues to dominate the relationship between religion and environment. White’s thesis that a religion’s cosmology and worldview is decisive in the human treatment ... -
Solidarity and Catholic Social Thought: Confronting the Globalization of Indifference
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Pope Francis has introduced the idea of a “globalization of indifference” into Catholic social teaching. He imputes indifference to “people who close their hearts to the needs of others, who close their eyes to what is ... -
The Politics of Catholic Worship in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Worship at the Mexico City cathedral from the 1840s to the 1890s was intentionally local, national, and universal. Canons actively promoted holy figures to convey messages of defiance to a reforming state, global Catholic ... -
Refugees, Exiles, and Stoic Cosmopolitanism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )The Roman imperial Stoics were familiar with exile. This paper argues that the Stoics’ view of being a refugee differed sharply from their view of what is owed to refugees. A Stoic adopts the perspective of a cosmopolitēs, ... -
Riba, Usury, and the Evolution of Moral Finance: A Comparison of Two Arguments
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )This article compares the historical transformation of the prohibition of usury in Christianity and the current disagreement in Islam over what forms of finance are forbidden by the prohibition of riba, now often interpreted ... -
Human Suffering, Evolution, and Ecological Niches: Edward Schillebeeckx in Dialogue with Niche Construction Theory
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2000. )With the development of niche construction theory, a recent expansion of evolutionary theory, evolutionary anthropologists describe human beings as fundamentally relational organisms, affected by our environmental niches ... -
Trinity and Justice: A Theological Response to the Sexual Assault of Migrant Women
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )How should theology respond to sexual abuse of migrant women? An appropriate theological and ethical response must account for the role of both personal actions and social structures in perpetuating these abuses. Beginning ... -
Seeking Community in a Capitalist Age: A Collective Response to Poverty and Debt, from the Bible to Today
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Our global communities are divided, in part, by an individualistic economic paradigm that blames the impoverished for their poverty and champions bottom-line profits as a standard upon which good economic practice is judged. ... -
Religion as Social Capital for Resettled Refugees: Karenni Catholics in Omaha, United States
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Drawing on a case study of resettled Karenni refugees from Myanmar in Omaha, in the American Midwest, this article explores the role, function, and potential of refugees’ identification with a religious belief and value ... -
Religion and the Commemoration of the Disappeared in Argentina 40 Years after the Dictatorship: A Study of Martyrological Memory at the Church of Santa Cruz
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2018. )This article analyzes how religion shapes Argentine memory of the period of state terror (1976-1983). The analysis focuses on the commemorative practices at the Church of Santa Cruz, a target of the former regime’s violence. ... -
The Church as a Workplace: Navigating Competing Ideas and Practices within Religious Employment Institutions
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2018. )The church, as an institution, is a religious community informed by certain beliefs and values but for clergy it is also employer. Drawing from interviews with 79 pastors and spouses, this paper explores the competing ... -
Gendered Support for Democratic Values? Religion and the Mediating Influence of Psychological Security
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2018. )Past research indicates substantive gender differences in democratic norm commitment and political tolerance in the U.S. Analyzing gender differences in democratic values, we focus on religion and the separate traits of ... -
Go Set Africa on Fire? Lessons in Evangelization and Globalization from Early Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2018. )Despite their central importance for Ignatius of Loyola and the early generations of the Society of Jesus, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit missions in Ethiopia are largely unknown in comparison to Jesuit encounters ... -
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Qur’an, Crucifixion, and Talmud: A New Reading of Q 4:157-58
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )Qur’an, Crucifixion, and Talmud: A New Reading of Q 4:157-58 Ian Mevorach, Emmanuel College Abstract This paper establishes and explores the inter-textuality of Sanhedrin 43a (a text from the Babylonian Talmud that ... -
“A New Sacred Space in the Centre of London”: The Victoria Tower Gardens Holocaust Memorial and the Religious-Secular Landscape of Contemporary Britain
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )“A New Sacred Space in the Centre of London”: The Victoria Tower Gardens Holocaust Memorial and the Religious-Secular Landscape of Contemporary Britain David Tollerton, University of Exeter, UK Abstract This article ... -
Why Are We Worried? The Role of Religion and Out-Group Bias in Predicting American Fears
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )Why Are We Worried? The Role of Religion and Out-Group Bias in Predicting American Fears Theresa Davidson, Samford University Abstract The experience of worry is associated with a host of negative outcomes. This ...
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