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Paradigms of Sport: Indian-Catholic Reflections
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2019)
Catholic reflections on sport in India need to proceed in a comparatively interreligious way with Hinduism, which is the major and most diffused religion in India. In this dialogical approach, which is very much in keeping ...
Football Plus Human and Spiritual Formation: The Sports Pastoral at Santo Domingo Parish, Managua
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2019)
In this article the sports pastoral in Managua, Nicaragua started by the Our Lady of Guadalupe Christian Life Community and supported by the local Jesuit parish is described and research with participants is shared that ...
Revivalism and Reconstructionism in Islamic Reform: Intellectual Trends in Modernist Maghribi Thought
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2019)
Modernist Islamic thought has grown in a variety of ways for the last two centuries. This paper argues that two distinct directions can be detected in the works of contemporary Muslim thinkers in the Maghrib, namely ...
Forest Cathedrals: “The Hidden Glory” of Hudson River Landscapes
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2019)
This essay analyses masterpieces of Hudson River School landscape painting within relevant religious, artistic, and literary contexts. The Hudson River School, America’s first indigenous art movement, included Thomas Cole, ...
Authenticity and the Cyber Pilgrim
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2016)
Pilgrimage is a spiritual-physical act done by adherents of every major faith system. Complicating the traditional pilgrimage ethos is the so-called virtual pilgrimage: a concept that I argue is not a product of modernity ...
Pope Francis: The Joy of Love – Repost
(Center for Catholic Thought, Creighton University., 2017-02-13)
Dr. Todd Salzman discusses Pope Francis’s new Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia).|Salzman is Professor of Theology and holder of the Amelia B. & Emil G. Graff Chair in Catholic Theology at Creighton ...
Is Rodney Stark Correct on the Reasons for the West’s Economic Success? A Review Essay
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2016)
In a number of his works but particularly in two books, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity led to Freedom, Capitalism and Western Success (2005) and How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity ...
Syncretism in Vodu and Orisha: An Anthropological Analysis
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2016)
This article is a comparative and ethnographic analysis of syncretism as a theoretical tool for explaining “African-based” religions (Vodu and Orisha) in West Africa and the New World. Vodu and Orisha defy syncretism as a ...
Boundary Formation and Cultural Construction: Religion and Ethnicity for Chinese and Indian Immigrant Converts in the U.S.
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2016)
Most scholars study immigrants’ religious lives in a vacuum, paying little attention to the religious lives of people who switch from one religious tradition to another. This article relies on interviews with Chinese and ...
Born into Deviance: Disaffiliation Processes for First and Second-Generation New Religious Movement Members
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2016)
Much information on New Religious Movements (NRM) has focused attention on members who either chose or were recruited into a movement. Less information has been recruited from second-generation members, or members born ...