Browsing Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society by Title
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Rabbi Paul: an intellectual biography
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. ) -
Race, Religion, and Boycotts
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )Using multiple surveys, this study examined the association between attending congregations in which clergy and/or lay persons discussed social-political issues and the perceptions Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics have about ... -
Race, truth, and reconciliation in the United States: reflections on Desmond Tutu's proposal
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. )Desmond Tutu's suggestion that U. S. society should have a truth and reconciliation process about its racist past prompts this investigation into historical scholarship on racial violence. The lynchings of Zachariah Walker ... -
Readings from the perspective of Earth
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. ) -
Realized religion: research on the relationship between religion and health
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, 2002. ) -
The Recursive Violence of Anthropological Exceptionalism: Toward the Ecological Transformation of Dignity
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 21, 2020. )Prevalent theological concepts of human dignity purport to safeguard human lives equally, but in fact, because they ground human inviolability in assumptions of the violation and violability of animal lives, they expose ... -
Rediscovering America's sacred ground: public religion and pursuit of the good in a pluralistic America
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. ) -
Reel spirituality. Theology and film in dialogue
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. ) -
Reenvisioning theological education: exploring a missional alternative to current models
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, 2001. ) -
Reflective-generative practice: a framework for congregation-based social services
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 14, 2012. )Despite emerging interest in congregations as social service providers in communities across the U.S., recent studies have offered troubling critiques of congregation-based social services, namely that they exhibit limited ... -
Reform Israeli Female Rabbis Perform Community Leadership
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 19, 2017. )This article analyzes leadership performances of Israeli women serving as reform rabbis. The writer examines the ways in which these women construct the pattern of their religious leadership, the meanings they embed into ... -
Reformations in Reading: Short Bibles and the Aesthetics of Abridgment
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, pg. 119-134, 2019. )This article takes up a period in the Bible’s history of publication when the text was redacted to approximately half of its original size. In the mid-twentieth century, editors, publishers, and book designers worked to ... -
Reforming Muslim Politics: Rashid Rida’s Visions of Caliphate and Muslim Independence
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, pg. 63-78, 2019. )Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935), a prolific writer and publisher who was also politically active, is generally known to Western readers as a Syrian or Lebanese-Syrian Islamic modernist. He is particularly associated with ... -
Reforming Our Responses to Crime: Recent Papal Contributions
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, pg. 135-150, 2019. )Pope Francis and his immediate predecessors, Benedict XVI and John Paul II, offer a positive vision of an appropriate societal response to crime and to criminals by emphasizing human dignity, rehabilitation, and social ... -
Reforming the Reforms: Doctrine in a Time of Ecumenism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 18, pg. 79-89, 2019. )The article affirms that the contemporary ecumenical agreements (especially between Roman Catholics and Lutherans) are the result of extensive study and exhaustive dialogue at an institutional level. The author’s thesis ... -
Refugees, Exiles, and Stoic Cosmopolitanism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 16, pg. 73-91, 2018. )The Roman imperial Stoics were familiar with exile. This paper argues that the Stoics’ view of being a refugee differed sharply from their view of what is owed to refugees. A Stoic adopts the perspective of a cosmopolitēs, ... -
The relationship of political evangelicalism to critical thinking and selected sociopolitical values in 2007
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 10, 2008. )The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between political evangelicalism and both critical thinking and selected sociopolitical perspectives in a sample of Southeastern university students in late 2007. ... -
Relationships between varieties of religious experience and manifest hate: a sociological analysis
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 14, 2012. )In a recent article appearing in the <em>Journal of Religion and Society</em>, a novel quantitative measure of <em>hate</em> applicable to ecological units of analysis, the Hate Group Representation Rate (HGRR), was ... -
Religion and cultural studies
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 4, 2002. ) -
Religion and environmentalism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 3, pg. 5-26, 2008. )