Browsing Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society by Title
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The earth story in Genesis
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. ) -
East is East, except when it's West: the Easternization thesis and the Western habitus
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, 2006. )An exercise in hermeneutical suspicion, this article engages the extent to which the burgeoning appearance of ostensibly Eastern concepts and practices within everyday late-modern discourse and practice can actually be ... -
An ecological theology of creaturely kinship
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, pg. 132-145, 2008. ) -
Edwards in our time: Jonathan Edwards and the shaping of American religion
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, 2000. ) -
The effects of being a born-again Christian on Latino socio-political attitudes
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )This work examines the political consequences of Latino religious identities. Survey data are used to analyze the effects of being a born-again Christian on Latino support for the Republican Party and policies traditionally ... -
Emotional Motivations of Islamic Activism Autobiographies and Personal Engagement in Political Action
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )The article examines autobiographies of persons who have belonged to different Islamic groups. The so-called cycle of engagement of an individual person – a “personal protest cycle” – to the Islamic activism is examined ... -
Empowered to Submit: Pentecostal Women in Nairobi
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )Neo-Pentecostalism is characterized as offering freedoms and empowerment for women, a limited role in navigating patriarchy, or strengthening patriarchal control. In Nairobi, Kenya, neo-Pentecostalism is concerned with a ... -
Encountering the Saracen Other: Anastasios of Sinai and the Arab Conquest
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, 2019. )Anastasios of Sinai wrote in the midst of the Arab conquest of Egypt and Palestine in the seventh century. He shared his monastic wisdom with various Christian correspondents in a series of replies to questions from the ... -
The end of nature: humans and the natural world in the history of creation
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, pg. 47-65, 2008. ) -
The End of Suffering: Mysticism, Messianism, and Medicine in Lubavitch
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )This paper examines understandings of evil, suffering, and sickness among Lubavitcher Hasidim, a group well known for their messianic assertions. It problematizes the relationship between theological teachings and how ... -
Environmental Crisis and Christian Identity: Lessons from a Secular Gaia
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 13, 2016. )This essay explores how Bruno Latour’s concept of “A Secular Gaia,” can enter into dialogue with the early Christian theologian Irenaeus of Lyons. By reading Irenaeus through Latour, it may be possible to recover aspects ... -
Ethical Practices and Policies in the Health Care of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Their Families: Framing the Issues
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2015. )This paper seeks to provide various building blocks for the development of an ethical framework to guide practice and policy in the health care of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). First, ... -
The ethics of therapeutic abortion and an American Catholic medical school: Charles Coppens, S.J. and the Creighton Medical College
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, pg. 112-133, 2011. ) -
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Forests and Economic Development: The Case of Traditional Ecological Management
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )Remnant Afromontane forests in northern Ethiopia are under threat from development pressures both within Ethiopia and from international interests. These biodiversity hotspots are currently protected by the Ethiopian ... -
Ethnicity in, with, or under the Pentateuch
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. )In the last decade a number of scholarly works investigating the phenomenon of ethnicity in the Hebrew Bible have appeared. This essay will address critically the question of whether a focus on ethnicity contributes to a ... -
Eugenics in Modern Societies
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2015. )This paper seeks to explore and analyze the different manifestations of eugenics in modern societies. First, the modern tools of eugenics will be outlined. Next, an analysis of the different levels of eugenic activities, ... -
Evangelical gender ideology: a view from Christianity Today readers
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, 2006. )Recent research on evangelicals has lead to the conclusion that they are relying upon patriarchal gender ideologies, specifically the male breadwinner and female domestic family, as identity markers to distinguish themselves ... -
Evangelical Protestant gifts to religious education
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, 2002. ) -
Evangelicalism, environmental activism, and climate change in the United States
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 11, 2009. )In most developed countries, a wide consensus exists among opinion leaders, mass publics and the media regarding the basic science behind human-induced climate change and the need to act, at least in the abstract. However, ... -
Even Satan gets likes on Facebook: the dynamic interplay of religion and technology in online social networks
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 14, 2012. )The rise of online social networking appears to represent a new challenge to religious individuals and institutions. It is wrong to assume, however, that the interaction between religion and technology is always adversarial. ...