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Latino Attitudes Toward Abortion and Marriage Equality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Acculturation, and Non-Response
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, 2014. )Extant literature on Latinos' policy preferences suggests heightened acculturation is associated with more liberal moral policy preferences, while heightened religiosity is associated with more conservative moral policy ... -
The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in Britain: mobilization and opposition
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, 2002. )One of the most contentious issues among Christian denominations today is focused upon the rights of gays within the church. Historically, Christianity has been opposed to lesbian and gay orientation in both the church and ... -
Lessons from Srebrenica: the danger of religious nationalism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, pg. 110-116, 2007. ) -
Lessons from the American rabbinic experience: what Muslim clergy need to know!
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )Immigrant Muslim clergy (imams) coming to America are currently facing many of the same issues, problems, and challenges faced by the immigrant Jewish clergy (rabbis) during the last half of the nineteenth century. This ... -
Liberating domesticity: women and the home in Orthodox Judaism and Latin American Pentecostalism
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 10, 2008. )Mainstream feminism has for decades asserted that women’s empowerment requires a radical readjustment of society. Not surprisingly, this view largely disregards empowerment claims made by women in traditional religious ... -
Liberation Psychology from an Islamic Perspective: Some Theoretical and Practical Implications of Psychology with a Telos of Justice
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2019. )Liberation psychology is an emerging field of psychological theory with an orientation towards justice as the telos of psychology. Rejecting the traditional European psychological practices which have based psychological ... -
Life, Design, and Drama: A Theological Response to Evolutionary Naturalism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 11, pg. 110-127, 2015. ) -
Light from the East: theology, science, and the Eastern Orthodox tradition
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. ) -
The Limits of Secularization through Education
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, 2015. )Education-inspired decline of religious thought and practice among students has long been conceived as a mechanism of secularization. How education correlates with religious outcomes, and vice versa, have been of interest ... -
Listening to Indigenous Values and Practices in Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Decision Making and Care
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, pg. 169-179, 2011. ) -
Local History of a Charismatic Catholic Base Community during the Pinochet Dictatorship: The Dios con Nosotros Community
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, 2015. )The principle objective of this paper is to illustrate the experience of a community from the Catholic Charismatic Renewal – Renovación Carismátic Católica – (RCC) in the Manuel Rodríguez section of Santiago, Chile (now ... -
Lord of lark and lightning: reassessing Celtic Christianity's ecological emphases
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 6, 2004. )A growing literature explores relationships between religion, ecology, and environmental stewardship. In Christian writings, Celtic Christianity has been proposed as exemplary for contemporary Christians seeking harmonious ... -
A loss for words: sounding the depth of what we profess in college English
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 6, pg. 22-35, 2011. ) -
The lost sheep: experiences of religious gay men in Havana, Cuba
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 9, 2007. )The focus of the article is interviews with ten religious gay men in Havana. Interviews were conducted in 1999 and 2000. The men were from Catholic, Santeria, Protestant, and Pentecostal backgrounds. Common perceptions ... -
Lot's Wife Looked Back: The Enduring Attractions of Sodom for Biblical Commentators
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Love Actually: Modeling Amor in Augustine’s De catechizandis rudibus
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 15, 2018. )A Carthaginian deacon named Deogratias asked Augustine for advice on how to improve his teaching for inquirers. Augustine obliged by writing De catechizandis rudibus (On Instructing Beginners), a masterful survey of ... -
Love taking shape, sermons on the Christian life
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, 2003. ) -
Luxury: Sign of the Beast, or of the Blessing?
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 10, pg. 217-228, 2014. ) -
The making and unmaking of prejudice: an interchange between psychology and religion
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 11, 2009. )Whether compassion for all beings in Buddhism, or "love of enemy" in Christianity, unconditional love is one of the principal concerns of all world religions. The profound wisdom of various religious traditions has inspired ... -
Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the rhetoric of legitimacy
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )