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Abbreviations of the Works of Augustine
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 15, pg. ix-xi, 2018. ) -
Abraham Lincoln: redeemer President
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, 2000. ) -
Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in the Meeting “Economy of Communion”
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. ) -
The Adhan Controversy in Historical Perspective: Interpenetrating Protestant, Secular, and Pluralist Paradigms at Duke University, 1839-2016
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )This article illustrates how the 2015 adhan controversy exposed tensions between Protestant, pluralist, and secular paradigms at Duke University. It challenges both historical and contemporary models of the relationship ... -
The adornment of silence: secrecy and symbolic power in American Freemasonry
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. )The post-civil war period in America - the same era that witnessed an unprecedented growth in industry, science, technology and urbanization - was also the golden age of secret brotherhoods, and above all, the more elaborate ... -
Advancing the culture of life through faithful citizenship
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, pg. 96-125, 2008. ) -
Advocating for the devil: hearing Al-Qaeda's case against the United States
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, 2003. ) -
The African American Civil Rights Movement and Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2016. )When Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched from the Brown Chapel of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama on March 15, 1965, Archbishop Iakovos, leader of the Greek ... -
African Initiated Churches, pivotal in peace-building: a case of the Johane Masowe Chishanu
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2014. )Western culture and ideology have indoctrinated Africans into believing that the West provides the best solutions for any crisis. Africa, a haven for some of the most threatening and destructive conflicts, Zimbabwe included, ... -
After the end of history: Latin American liberation theology in the wake of capitalism's triumph
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, 2000. )Postmodernity is best understood as the reflex of yet another mutation of capitalism and as such it is synonymous with what has been lauded as "the end of history" - the unabashed victory of economic and political ... -
Al-Qaeda, specter of globalization
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, pg. 103-109, 2007. ) -
Alterations of state: sacred kingship in the English Reformation
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, 2003. ) -
The ambiguously gendered ideal of a seventeenth century community of women religious: the Visitation of Holy Mary
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, pg. 103-113, 2009. ) -
The ambivalence of Medjugorje: the dynamics of violence, peace, and nationalism at a Catholic pilgrimage site during the Bosnian war (1992-1995)
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )Focusing on the use of Marian imagery from Medjugorje during the Bosnian War (1992-1995), and employing R. Scott Appleby's use of the concept, sacred ambivalence, this essay will examine how a religious image proclaiming ... -
America, left behind: Bush, the neoconservatives, and Evangelical Christian fiction
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, 2006. )This paper examines the striking intersections between the Christian Right and the Neoconservative movement in contemporary U.S. foreign policy. Using as my specific example the wildly popular series of evangelical ... -
The American religious outlook: an examination of the philosophical and historical forces behind modern American religious beliefs
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )For one hundred and fifty years, the specter of secularization haunted philosophy, sociology, and religion. Only until research into contemporary realities and the historical record posed serious challenges to its empirical ... -
The Americanization of religious minorities: confronting the constitutional order
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The Amish Ordnung: A Shared Double Consciousness
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, pg. 103-118, 2019. )This study takes a critical anthropological approach to examining and critiquing the notion of religious reform from culturally diverse perspectives. It compares Evangelical Lutheran, Mennonite Brethren, and Old Order Amish ... -
And the blue became red and dwelt among us: mapping boundaries of meaning in Eastern Orthodox iconography
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, pg. 133-144, 2012. ) -
Another physicist thinks it through
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 6, pg. 89-94, 2011. )