Browsing Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society by Title
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Failed Expectations: The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Church
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, pg. 20-33, 2019. )During the latter half of the sixteenth century, a handful of Tübingen theologians initiated informal correspondence with the ecumenical patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Jeremias II of Constantinople, in which they expressed ... -
Faith in inaction: a Christian critique of Islamophobia
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 9, 2007. ) -
Faith in public: a response to Greg Dawes
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. )In a recent paper, Greg Dawes has argued for what he calls the “presumption of naturalism” in religious studies, and by implication in academia in general. He argues that theological assumptions may not be ... -
Faith, sport and disengaged youth
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2014. )Set against a backdrop of faith-based explorations of sport with disengaged youth, the present paper presents findings from a project which sought to re-engage young people with sport via Christian youth ministry. Locating ... -
Faithful citizenship and climate change: reclaiming Christian principles of prudence, poverty and the common good
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, pg. 150-163, 2008. ) -
Faithful citizenship between elections: reflections from an exponent of broad-based community organizing
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, pg. 173-178, 2008. ) -
Faithful Citizenship in the USA and Uganda: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Catholic Pastoral Letters on Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 14, pg. 80-95, 2017. )This article offers a comparative analysis of two 2015 Catholic bishops’ statements on politics: the Ugandan Episcopal Conference’s “Free and Fair Elections” and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ “Faithful ... -
Faithful citizenship: history, context, directions, dangers
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The faithful in a time of trial: the evangelical understanding of the Holocaust
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. )The Holocaust occupies an important place in Christian evangelical literature. The murder of millions of Jews in Europe during World War II has been a topic evangelicals have needed to deal with, and books relating to the ... -
Family Life Cycle Revisited: Age and Life Course Effects on Church Attendance at "Conventional" and Middle Age
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 15, 2013. )We examined the effects of marital status and parenthood on church attendance using panel data from the 1975 and 1992 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Consistent with prior research, both cross-sectional and fixed effects ... -
Family: a Christian social perspective
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Fatwa and violence in Indonesia
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 11, 2009. )Fatwa is often considered as a non-binding legal opinion. Some jurists use this caveat to reject any links between fatwa and violence. They argue that fatwa is one thing and violence is something else. This article is an ... -
Fethullah Gulen: spiritual leader in a global Islamic context
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )Fethullah G�len is one of the most influential Muslim scholars in the world. His philosophy of combining Islam and modernity, together with religious tolerance, has attracted millions of followers who have established ... -
Filling the Gaps in Civil Society: The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin American Democratization
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 20, 2018. )In this paper, we seek to draw lessons about the roles that religious institutions can play in promoting democracy in deeply divided societies by examining the experience of the Catholic Church in Latin America. We focus ... -
Financialization and the Changing Face of Poverty: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 10, pg. 190-216, 2014. ) -
Finding the church: the dynamic truth of Anglicanism
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 6, 2004. ) -
The First Amendment's religion clauses: the Calvinist document that interprets them both
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )This paper suggests that the Westminster Confession of Faith's provisions about church and state, revised in Philadelphia at the start of the Constitution's ratifying convention, furnished much of the syntax and vocabulary ... -
Five options for the relationship between the state and sharia councils: untangling the debate on sharia councils and women's rights in the United Kingdom
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2014. )This study clarifies the positions in the debate on Sharia councils and women's rights in the UK by identifying the arguments for and against state accommodation of Sharia councils. In light of these arguments as well as ... -
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. ) -
Flannery O'Connor's sacramental art
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. )