Browsing Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society by Title
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Terror at the holy of holies: Christians and Jewish builders of the Temple at the turn of the twenty-first century
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, pg. 63-82, 2007. ) -
A test of Nordic exceptionalism: the association of ethnic heritage and religion with social capital and civic engagement in small U.S. towns
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 13, 2011. )The purpose of this paper is to discover the unique and interactive effects of ethnic heritages and religious traditions on social capital and civic engagement. Findings support the Nordic exceptionalism thesis. Small Iowa ... -
Theistic naturalism and the politics of nature
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, pg. 202-220, 2008. ) -
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 ... -
The theology of the prophetic books: the death and resurrection of Israel
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. ) -
Theology, athletics, and job hunting
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, 2003. ) -
Theology, Science, and Sexual Anthropology: A Methodological Investigation
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 11, pg. 46-72, 2015. ) -
Therapeutic Heresy or Emotional Salvation? American Catholic Interpretations of Psychoanalysis During and After World War II
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2016. )During and after World War II, American Catholic intellectuals were fascinated by psychoanalysis. Addressing many of the same concerns as their theology – the nature of free will, the origins and effects of sin and guilt, ... -
Three Approaches to Sport: The Vatican, the International Olympic Committee, and the United Nations
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, pg. 123-134, 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 ... -
Three Rival Versions of the Relationship of Religion to Modernity
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, pg. 11-31, 2018. )This essay explores Bernard Williams’s portrayal of his, Alasdair MacIntyre’s, and Charles Taylor’s views on how to move in relationship to religion in our modern world: backward in it (MacIntyre), forward in it (Taylor), ... -
To kneel or not to kneel: gendered nonverbal behavior in Greek ritual
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, pg. 6-20, 2009. ) -
Too hard to believe? a reading of religious eclecticism in Yann Martel's Life of Pi
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 13, 2011. ) -
The tourist: a new theory of the leisure class
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, 2000. ) -
Toward Faith: A Qualitative Study of How Atheists Convert to Christianity
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )The study of religious conversion has historically neglected how nonbelievers (i.e. atheists) come to adopt a belief in a god or gods, and thus cannot address whether findings and theories from previous research apply to ... -
Toward the Integral Development of Students in Canadian Catholic High School Athletics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, pg. 106-122, 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. ... -
Tragic Choices in Ideological Battles: Gay Rights versus Religious Freedom
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, 2015. )A major domestic issue in the United States today is the battle between gay rights and religious liberty. It is an issue often framed as a zero-sum battle where one side must lose and be faced with a tragic choice. Thus ... -
Transforming the mainline church: lessons in change from Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Hope
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. ) -
Trinity and Justice: A Theological Response to the Sexual Assault of Migrant Women
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, pg. 39-51, 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 ... -
The Truth of Religion: Contributions from Spinoza and Hegel
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, pg. 88-104, 2018. )Modern society encompasses a cluster of features. One feature is skepticism directed at truth generally and at religion in particular. From skepticism comes the marginalization of religious practice and belief. Moderns ... -
Turning from Conversion: Shakers, Anti-Shakers, and the Battle for Public Opinion
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, 2015. )The Shakers, a small ecstatic religious group, found themselves at the center of controversy in the early nineteenth century when a number of apostates published accounts accusing the sect of all variety of malfeasance. ...