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The narcissistic reader and the parable of the Good Samaritan
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, 2003. )The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most well known stories in the New Testament. The traditional interpretation of this passage found only in Luke (10:25-37), insists that it is an example story that encourages ... -
The natural world: a sacramental understanding
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 9, 2007. ) -
Negotiating boundaries: Israelites and Canaanites receive help from a Russian
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2010. )Social location determines how one reads a text. This truism is amply illustrated by the different readings Native Americans and Euro-Americans bring to the Hebrew Bible's conquest narratives. These dissimilar interpretive ... -
Negotiating Empowerment: A Critical Ethnography of Hijabi Women in Sarajevo
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2019. )This ethnographic study explores the daily enactments and negotiations of self and religious practice performed by hijabi women living in Sarajevo, a city marked by gender inequality in social and economic rights on one ... -
Negotiating Identity: The Jewishness of the Way in Acts
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 13, 2016. )Acts is often read as an anti-Jewish text that validates a gentile church which has separated from Judaism and the Jewish people. While the text does depict opposition between the Way and “the Jews,” it simultaneously ... -
The new atheism and the scientific-naturalist tradition
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“A New Sacred Space in the Centre of London”: The Victoria Tower Gardens Holocaust Memorial and the Religious-Secular Landscape of Contemporary Britain
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )This article considers the relationship between Britain’s 21st century religious-secular landscape and the current plans to build a national Holocaust memorial next to the Houses of Parliament in London. I argue that the ... -
Next year in Orlando: (re)creating Israel in Christian Zionism
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 9, 2007. )An Orlando based ministry called Zion’s Hope seeks to shape Christian identity in a two-prong approach. The first prong is the creation of an American Christian pilgrimage site. During a trip to this theme park cum ... -
Non-Catholic students impact upon Catholic students in four Catholic high schools
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, 2006. )This paper examines the impact of the inclusion of non-Catholic students on Catholic students in four urban Western Canadian Catholic high schools. The study employs grounded theory as the methodology and focus groups as ... -
Not so Alien and Unnatural After All: The role of Privation and Deification in Augustine’s Sermons
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 15, 2018. )One typically reads that deification, or theosis, was the view held among the Eastern churches and something quite foreign to the West. In such works one finds Augustine presented as the preeminent champion of ransom theory ... -
“Nothing about Us without Us”: Understanding Mental Health and Mental Distress in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Autism through their Inclusion, Participation, and Unique Ways of Communicating
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 12, 2015. )Full inclusion and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in daily life in their own communities, is now recognized as their human right and is a stated goal in many countries. When people ... -
Of saints and sinners: religion and the Civil War and Reconstruction novel
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, 2002. )Exploring religious themes, idioms, and language in Albion Tourgée's and Thomas Dixon Jr.'s most noteworthy novels on the Civil War and Reconstruction, this study suggests that religion provided a critically important ... -
On Earth as it is In Heaven: The Protestant House Church Phenomenon in Post-Soviet Cuba
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 17, 2015. )This ethnographic case study examines Protestant social engagement in post-Soviet Cuba through the lens of the growing house church phenomenon. After the fall of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba entered into an acute economic crisis ... -
On pilgrimage
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 2, 2000. ) -
"On the brink of tears and laughter": joy and suffering in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 6, 2004. )The idea of enjoyment (<em>jouissance</em>), of "life as love of life," is a crucial preconditional aspect in Levinas's ethical thought. The self takes satisfaction in its own being by consuming the outside world ... -
On the origin of language: implications for ethics, politics, and theology
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. )In this paper I revisit Nancy Howell's essay on the need for a new theology that speaks to the continuity between humans and primates. I interrogate the assumptions and arguments that Howell employs to ground this new ... -
The ordained women of the early church: their story
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 5, pg. 129-136, 2009. ) -
The ordinary magic girls: Midwestern women, faith, and healing
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, pg. 262-274, 2011. ) -
Orthodox Perspectives on Saint Augustine
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 15, 2018. )It is not unusual in Orthodox circles to hear Augustine of Hippo mentioned in polemical if not pejorative terms – that is, if discussed at all. Until very recently, the prevailing general narrative in modern times is that ... -
Orthodoxy and education in post-socialist Serbia: a comment
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 15, 2013. )This essay is a comment on Orthodox Christianity and formal education in post-socialist Serbia. It considers the hostility of state socialism towards religion and, using Russian Orthodoxy as an initial point of comparison, ...