!CONTENT FREEZE ALERT! A content freeze is in affect as we upgrade the system and move to a hosted server. Nursing and OT students with final projects and capstones, you can submit to the new system at https://cdr.creighton.edu/home. If you have any questions, please contact us at cdr@creighton.edu.!CONTENT FREEZE ALERT!
Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion and Society
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Introduction
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. ) -
Unholy Economics and Environmental Impacts: Reading Revelation’s Great Whore in the Climate Crisis
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Wealth inequality and climate disruption are defining issues of our time. This article addresses ways in which dispensationalist interpretations of the book of Revelation shape decision making on these issues in the age ... -
New Politics, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and LGBT Legislation: A Critical Analysis
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Our focus in this essay is on the divisions the new politics promotes surrounding sex and sexualities and how the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is fostering these divisions legally, theological-ant ... -
U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Discussion of President Obama vs. President Trump, 2014–2019
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Scholars have noted shared priorities and organizational ties between American Catholic leadership and the Republican Party arising since the 1970s and continuing today. Does American Catholic leadership withhold clear ... -
Catholic Social Teaching, Laudato Sí, and the Green New Deal
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )The Green New Deal (GND) is a very ambitious mission statement for a just transition to a low carbon economy whose starting point was not perceived political possibility but the boundaries of the climate system, for a ... -
From the “Culture of Death” to the “Crisis of Liberalism”: Recent Shifts in Catholic Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This article identifies and assesses some of the shifts that have occurred in conservative Catholic politics in the United States over the last twenty years. For much of the late 1990s and early 2000s, a politics focused ... -
Countering the Politics of Fear: Insights from the Life & Theology of Uganda’s John Mary Waliggo
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )This article introduces Fr. John Mary Waliggo (1942–2008), the foremost Catholic public intellectual in post-colonial Uganda. In his personal life, priestly ministry, and extensive government work, Waliggo built a public ... -
Growing Age and Education Gaps? The Evolution of Partisan Vote Choice among Religious Voters in the U.S., 2008–2018
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Over the last three decades, two divergent trends help to explain voter support for the two political parties. Voter support for each party by religious affiliation has remained remarkably stable. In contrast, coalitions ... -
Beyond Western Civilization: Toward the Recentering of Catholic Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )A number of Catholic political movements have developed in recent decades contesting Catholic accommodations with political liberalism since World War II, particularly in the areas of human rights and religious liberty. ... -
The New Politics of Religious Freedom: Humanitarian Aid and Sanctuary as Religious Mandates
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Interreligious organizations that provide aid to immigrants are changing the way scholars and the public understand religious freedom in the United States. Members of these organizations draw on laws and ideals of free ... -
From Word to Flesh: Embodied Racism and the New Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Drawing on resources from the philosophical tradition of phenomenology and putting them into dialogue with an important theme in Christian theology, I argue that there is a distinctly non-discursive, embodied form of racism ... -
Dignity and Freedom in the Classroom: A Catholic Framework for Navigating Trumpism
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )The politics of Trumpism have engendered new norms for public discourse, which affect teaching and learning in higher education. This essay examines resources in Catholic higher education for providing a framework to ... -
An Interpretive Model of Privileged Contempt: Understanding Disdain Toward Those of Lower Status, from Ancient Israel to the New American Politics
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 23, 2021. )Biblical studies has made strides in drawing meaningful connections between systemic poverty in the biblical worlds and today. However, perhaps just as important as connecting the tools and effects of these systems is ... -
Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in the Meeting “Economy of Communion”
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. ) -
For an Economy Based on Communion
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )Here Chiara Lubich, founder of the EoC movement, provides a brief explanation of the origins and key characteristics of the Economy of Communion. Among those characteristics are 1. That we should practice business with the ... -
Simplicity of Lifestyle as a Goal of Business: Practicing the Economy of Communion as a Challenge to Consumer Society
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )My first task in the paper will be to illuminate why following genuine principles of one’s Christianity is so challenging in the contemporary economy, and then I will turn to a specific aspect of the challenge: the importance ... -
Ownership and Business Succession: Considerations from Catholic Social Teaching and the Economy of Communion
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )Small to medium-sized businesses are a significant part of the economy, and play a very significant role strengthening local communities. However, few have a clear plan for succession. Business succession is important for ... -
Bibliography of English Resources on the Economy of Communion
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. ) -
Economy of Communion: A Different Attitude to Work
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )Conventional economic theory and practice sees work as a disutility: something that we dislike and prefer to avoid. So we eliminate work wherever possible, replacing human workers by machinery or electronics, thus enabling ... -
The Business of Business: Recapturing a Personalist Perspective
( Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 22, 2020. )The business of business properly understood is necessarily personalistic. The human person acting as an entrepreneur or working in business is not merely froth and bubble in the stream of history but is a freely acting ...
RSS 1.0