2024 Volume 20Article 8:
Is Homosexuality in the Priesthood Diminishing? Evidence from Two Surveys of Catholic Priests in the United States
Author: Mark Regnerus (The University of Texas at Austin), Brad Vermurlen (University of St. Thomas), and Stephen Cranney (The Catholic University of America) |
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Book Talk: Religious Appeals in Power Politics
Author: Author: Author: Reviewer's Response: Ariel Zellman (Bar-Ilan University) Author's Reply: Peter Henne (2023, Cornell University Press) |
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Exposure to Worldview Pluralism and Adopting an Atheistic Worldview
Author: Katie E. Corcoran and Christopher P. Scheitle (West Virginia University) |
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Book Talk: No Congregation Is an Island: How Faith Communities Navigate Opportunities and Challenges Together
Author: Author: Reviewer's Response: Kevin D. Dougherty (Baylor University) Author's Reply: Jennifer M. McClure Haraway(2023, Rowman & Littlefield) |
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A Corpus-Based Comparison of Keywords and Themes from The Book of Mormon and the Bible
Author: Brett Hashimoto and Joshua Cowley (Brigham Young University) |
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Book Talk: Stuck: Why Clergy Are Alienated From Their Calling, Congregation, and Career...and What To Do About It
Author: Author: Reviewer's Response: Mark Killian (Whitworth University, Sociology Department) Author's Reply: Todd W. Ferguson and Josh Packard (2022, Fortress Press) |
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A Quantitative Integrative Review of Personal Jurisdiction in Romans 1 Legal Exegesis and Its Implications on Christian Gentile Homonegative Doctrines
Author: Jonathan Brackens (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) |
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Book Talk: In This Place Called Prison: Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment
Author: Author: Reviewer's Response: Cesraéa Rumpf (University of Illinois Chicago) Author's Reply: Rachel Ellis (2023, University of California Press) |
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 2023 Volume 19Article 7:
Measuring Ethnodoxy in Egypt and Morocco
Author: Hannah M. Ridge, Ph.D. (Chapman University) |
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A Meta-Analysis: How to Best Foster the Success of African American and Latino Students with Disabilities and Those of Them in Special Education, the Place of Faith, and Other Factors
Author: William H. Jeynes, Ph.D. (California State University) |
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Saint Thomas in the East
Author: Daryn Graham, Ph.D. (Macquarie University) |
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Book Talk: Solidarity in a Secular Age: From Political Theology to Jewish Philosophy
Author: Author: Reviewer's Response: Martin Kavka (Florida State University) Author's Reply: Charles H. T. Lesch (2022, Oxford University Press) |
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Religious, Spiritual, and Secular Identity and Group Participation in U.S. College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences in Quality of Life and Psychological Distress
Author: Christopher R. Dabbs, Ph.D. (Knox College) and Carrie L. Winterowd, Ph.D. (Oklahoma State University) |
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Book Talk: Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope
Author: Reviewer's Response: Gregory Claeys (University of London) Author's Reply: Ben Jones (2022, Cambridge University Press) |
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Book Talk: Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels
Author: Reviewer's Response: Omar McRoberts (University of Chicago) Author's Reply: Pamela J. Prickett (2021, University of Chicago Press) |
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2022 Volume 18Article 11:
Muslim American Women’s Attitudes toward Islamic Law: Support or Rejection?
Author: Fatima Z. Rahman, PhD (Soka University of America) |
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Book Talk: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
Author: Reviewer's Response: Scotty McLennan (Stanford Graduate School of Business) Author's Reply: Carolyn Chen (2022, Princeton University Press) |
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Book Talk: Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics
Author: Reviewer's Response: Corwin E. Smidt (Calvin University) Author's Reply: R. Khari Brown, Ronald E. Brown, and James S. Jackson (2021, University of Michigan Press) |
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A ‘Sanctified’ Language: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Perception of Latin and its Role in the Mass for American Catholics
Author: David Johnson, Ph.D. (Kennesaw State University) and Jennifer Priestley, Ph.D. (Kennesaw State University) |
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Are Religious “Nones” Really Not Religious?: Revisiting Glenn, Three Decades Later
Author: Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., Matt Bradshaw, Ph.D., Byron R. Johnson, Ph.D., Rodney Stark, Ph.D. (Baylor University) |
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Voddie Baucham and the Gnostics Who Have No Love: Boundary Work and a Rhetorical Exposé of Social Justice within Evangelicalism
Author: G. Brandon Knight (William Carey University) |
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A Corpus-Based Comparison of Modality in Evangelical Christian and Zen Buddhist Books
Author: Charles M Mueller (Fuji Women’s University), Peter Richardson (Hokkaido Bunkyo University), Baramee Kheovichai (Silpakorn University), and Miori Nagashima (Hokkaido University) |
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Book Talk: Society and the Death of God
Author: Reviewer's Response: Robert A. Thomson, Jr. (The University of Alabama in Huntsville) Author's Reply: Sal Restivo (2021, Routledge) |
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Sociodemographic Predictors of Buddhist Religious Engagement Among Thai Adolescents and Young Adults
Author: Sakesun Siriphadung (Independent Researcher) and Michael Christopher (Pacific University) |
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Digital Theology: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research Between the Humanities and Theology
Author: Jens Dörpinghaus (University of Pretoria) |
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Book Talk - The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
Author: Reviewer's Response: Richard Madsen (University of California, San Diego) Author's Reply: Hans Joas (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
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2021 Volume 17Article 5:
Household Income, Household Size and Charitable Giving
Author: Alan Chan (Crandall University) |
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Confucian Values, Depression and Suicidal Ideation Among Rural Chinese
Author: Jie Zhang (State University of New York College at Buffalo), Shuo Dong (Central University of Finance and Economics School of Economics, China), and David Lester (Stockton University) |
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Gendering by Design: The Visual Language of Essentialism in Evangelical Material Culture
Author: Mark Ward Sr. (University of Houston-Victoria Victoria, Texas) |
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Generation Z, Minority Millennials and Disaffiliation from Religious Communities: Not Belonging and the Cultural Cost of Unbelief
Author: Aprilfaye T. Manalang (Norfolk State University) |
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Political Activity in American Synagogues
Author: Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Ph.D. (Senior Director, Research and Analysis - Director, Berman Jewish DataBank - Jewish Federations of North America) |
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2020 Volume 16Article 9:
Purgatory, Alms-Giving, and the Needs of the Dead
Author: Paul Delany (Simon Fraser University) |
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Gospels of Prosperity and Simplicity. Assessing Variation in the Protestant Moral Economy
Author: Maren Freudenberg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Martin Lutz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Martin Radermacher (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) |
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Religion as Social Control: Parsons and Foucault
Author: James J. Chriss (Cleveland State University) |
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When Spiritual and Material Meet: Explaining Congregational Engagement in the Local Community
Author: Rebecca A. Glazier (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Emilie Street (Clinton School of Public Service) |
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On Early Church Organization: An Economic Analysis of The Didache
Author: Cornelius Christian |
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Connected and Fragmented: Introducing a Social Network Study of Religious Congregations
Author: Jennifer M. McClure (Samford University) |
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The influence of religiosity and Muslim peers on the school performance of adolescents in the Netherlands, Germany, and England
Author: Dr. Susan Lee. (IMVR, University of Cologne) |
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Wisdom, Masculinity, and Health in the Book of Proverbs
Author: Kojo Okyere (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) |
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The "First Shall Remain the First" - Social Stratification and Calvinism
Author: Milan Zafirovski (University of North Texas) |
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2019 Volume 15Article 8:
Effect of Religious Legislation on Religious Behavior: The Ramadan Fast
Author: Hannah M. Ridge (Duke University) |
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Consensus and Conflict: Abortion, Mainline Protestants, and Religious Restructuring Since 1960
Author: Sabrina Danielsen (Creighton University) |
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Virtues for Me or Virtues for You?: Patterns of the Perceptions of the Religious Virtues
Author: Michael A. McCann (Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, California), Douglas M. Stenstrom (California State University, Los Angeles, California) |
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He Goes by Mo: Drawing Boundaries Around Muslim Identities
Author: Jack Trey Allen (University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky) |
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The entanglement of religion and politics in Europe: How and why religious and political worldviews merge in times of uncertainty
Author: Heiko Beyer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany), Annette Schnabel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) |
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Fostering Interaction in a Strict Non-communal Group: A Case Study of Amish Visiting Practices
Author: Rachel E. Stein (West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia), Katie E. Corcoran (West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia), Corey J. Colyer (West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia) |
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Religiosity as a Buffer in the Association Between Economic Disadvantage and Violence
Author: Cassady Pitt (The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Chicago, Illinois) and Alfred DeMaris (Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio) |
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Religious Capital Specificity: Predicting Member Retention
Author: Katie E. Corcoran (West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia) |
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2018 Volume 14Article 16:
Heads Down, Hearts Up: How Ukrainian Baptists Make Meaning from Their Memories of Soviet State-Sanctioned Religious Persecution
Author: Gregory S. Morrow (Future Leadership Foundation Jefferson City, Missouri), Mary E. Grigsby (University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri) |
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Metaphoric Narration: Mimesis of Mystic Experience in Hadewijch of Brabants Vision 1
Author: Catherine Caufield (Concordia University of Edmonton Edmonton, Alberta) |
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New Data and Measures on Societal Discrimination and Religious Minorities
Author: Jonathan Fox (Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel), Roger Finke (Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania), Dane R. Mataic (Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania) |
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Religious Identity Formation: Constraints Imposed on Religious Institutions and Implications for the Meaning of Religious Affiliation
Author: Marc von der Ruhr (St. Norbert College De Pere, Wisconsin), Paul Ngo (St. Norbert College De Pere, Wisconsin), Joseph Daniels (Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
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Family Networks and the Growth of The Church of Almighty God
Author: Massimo Introvigne (CESNUR Center for Studies on New Religions Torino, Italy) |
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| Article 11:
Head Knowledge Isnt Enough: Bible Visualization and Congregational Culture in an Evangelical Church
Author: Mark Ward Sr. (University of Houston-Victoria Victoria, Texas) |
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The Body in Medieval Spirituality: A Rationale for Pilgrimage and the Veneration of Relics
Author: Matteo Salonia (Kings College London London, England) |
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A Linguistic and Religious Interpretation of the Word Pain in the Age of American Secularism
Author: David Johnson (Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, Georgia) |
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Same-Sex Sexuality, Marriage, and the Seminary Professor: Catholic, Evangelical, and Mainline Protestant
Author: Robert J. Priest (Taylor University Upland, Indiana) |
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Economic and Religious Freedom: One or Divisible?
Author: Peter R. Crabb (Northwest Nazarene University Nampa, Idaho) |
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Mostly Catholic or Loose Organizational Affiliation and Intergenerational Immigrant Identity: A Case Study of the Philippine-American Ecumenical Church, United Church of Christ (PAECUSA-UCC) in Detroit, Michigan
Author: Aprilfaye T. Manalang (Norfolk State University Norfolk, Virginia) |
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Ministries of Catholic Sisters in the Diocese of Cleveland: Assessing Capacity and Opportunity in a Period of Transition
Author: Robert L. Fischer (Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio) and Rong Bai (Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio) |
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Gendered Motivations for Religious Exit among the Former Amish
Author: Caroline L. Faulkner (Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
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Introducing the Sort-of Buddhist: Or, If There Is No �I� to Have a Religious Identity, Then How Do I Fill Out This Survey?�
Author: Anne C. Spencer (The College of Idaho Caldwell) and Scott Draper ( The College of Idaho Caldwell) |
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Religious Likes and Dislikes as Potential Explanations for Support of Sexual Minorities
Author: George Yancey (University of North Texas) |
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The Structure of Jesuss Social Network: Subgroups, Blockmodeling, and Balance
Author: Jennifer M. McClure (Samford University) |
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2017 Volume 13Article 12:
Certitudo Salutis and Perseverance of the Saints: The Missing Piece in the Weberian Puritan Ethic
Author: Ottavio Palombaro (University of Milan) |
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The Ancien Régime and Calvinism: Religious, Ideological, and Related Social Conditions of Its Genesis and Development
Author: Milan Zafirovski (University of North Texas) |
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The Effect of Religious Affiliation and Religious Markets on Islamophobia in Four European Nations
Author: Linda A. Lockett (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Ted G. Jelen (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
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The Prosperity Gospel and Individualistic Economic and Social Attitudes in Guatemala
Author: Lindsey A. Huang (Fresno Pacific University) and Gabe Ignatow (University of North Texas) |
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Strict but Not (Gender) Conservative: Refining the Strict Church Thesis in Light of Brazilian Pentecostalism
Author: Kevin Neuhouser (Seattle Pacific University) |
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Between Ideological Formatting and Subjective Experience: The Blurring Lines of New Religious Identities
Author: Patrick Laude (Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar) |
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Christian Theology and Attitudes Toward Political and Religious Ideological Groups
Author: George Yancey (University of North Texas), Marie A. Eisenstein (Indiana University Northwest), and Ryan P. Burge (Eastern Illinois University) |
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Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
Author: R. Warren Anderson and Brooks B. Hull (University of Michigan-Dearborn) |
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"Today Is the Day of Salvation": Martin R. Delanys Struggles Against Providential Determinism in Early Nineteenth Century Black Abolitionism
Author: Tunde Adeleke (Iowa State University) |
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Providentiality: A New Measure of Religious Belief
Author: Rebecca A. Glazier (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) |
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Pragmatic Kabbalists: Bnei Baruch and the Globalization of Kabbalah
Author: Massimo Introvigne (Center for Studies on New Religions) |
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The Inclusion of Geo-Cultural, Historical, and Legal Considerations in the Analysis of Anglican and Roman Ecclesiastical Division
Author: Rutherford Cd. Johnson (University of Minnesota) |
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2016 Volume 122015 Volume 11Article 14:
The Paganization Process
Author: William Sims Bainbridge |
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Faith Memes: An Analysis of Authority as Reflected in the Social Media of Churches in New Delhi
Author: Benson Rajan (MICA) |
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| Article 12:
Increasing Sex Ratio Imbalance Among Utah Mormons: Sources and Implications
Author: Rick Phillips (University of North Florida), Ryan T. Cragun (University of Tampa), and Barry A. Kosmin (Trinity College) |
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Gifts of Time and Money: The Impact of Church Leadership Roles
Author: Robert Stonebraker |
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Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background: A Global Census
Author: Duane Alexander Miller (St. Mary's University) and Patrick Johnstone (WEC International) |
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| Article 9:
Should Social Marketing Interventions Against Human Trafficking in Asia Focus on Religion or Economics?
Author: Vernon Murray, Prema Nakra, and Sherry Dingman (Marist College) |
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Jesus in Interaction: The Microsociology of Charisma
Author: Randall Collins (University of Pennsylvania) |
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Negative Religious Coping and Emotional Distress Among College Students: Exploring the Influences of Religiousness, Fading Affect, and Neuroticism
Author: Sherman A. Lee, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, and Andrew Hartzler (Christopher Newport University) and Jennifer K. Hartzler (Radford University) |
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Religious Monopolies, Religious Pluralism, and Secularization: The Relationship Between Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation in Sweden
Author: Eva M. Hamberg (Lund University) |
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| Article 5:
Spinozas Use of the Psalms in the Context of His Political Project
Author: Jeffrey Morrow (Seton Hall University) |
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| Article 4:
Goals and Information Behavior in Religious Sermons
Author: Darin Freeburg (University of South Carolina) and Daniel Roland (Kent State University) |
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Connection Between Retirement Preparation and Spiritual Activities: An Example of Faculty at an Evangelical Christian University
Author: Paul Anderson, Jau-Lian Jeng, and Daniel G. Park (Azusa Pacific University) |
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Separation Anxiety: Analyzing Media Coverage of Issues of Law and Faith in Town of Greece v. Galloway
Author: Erica Salkin (Whitworth University) and Jonah Brown (Whitworth University) |
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Are Religion and Environmentalism Complements or Substitutes?: A Club-Based Approach
Author: Feler Bose (Alma College) and Timothy M. Komarek (Old Dominion University) |
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2014 Volume 102013 Volume 92012 Volume 8Article 10:
God, Guts, and Glory: An Investigation of Relational Support Mechanisms for War Veterans Provided by Religious Communities
Author: Terry Shoemaker (Western Kentucky University) |
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Whom Do People Dislike More: Atheists or Cultists?
Author: Ryan T. Cragun (University of Tampa), Patrick Henry (Eckerd College), Casey P. Homan (University of California, Berkeley), and Joseph Hammer (Iowa State University) |
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Religion as a Credence Good and the Case Against Galileo
Author: Kristina Terkun Castro (DePaul University) |
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Pride, Sloth/Lust/Gluttony, Envy, Greed/Wrath: Rating the Seven Deadly Sins
Author: Douglas M. Stenstrom (California State University, Los Angeles) and Mathew Curtis (University of Southern California)) |
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Meaning Making Under the Sacred Canopy: The Role of Orthodox Jewish Marriage Guidebooks
Author: Nurit Novis-Deutsch (University of California) and Ari Engelberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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Liar, Liar: Adolescent Religiosity and Lying to Parents
Author: Scott A. Desmond (Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis) and Rachel Kraus (Ball State University) |
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Religion and Endorsement of Same-Sex Marriage: The Role of Syncretism Between Denominational Teachings About Homosexuality and Personal Religious Beliefs
Author: Michael R. Woodford (University of Michigan), N. Eugene Walls (University of Denver), and Denise L. Levy (Appalachian State University) |
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The Confucian Ethic of Female Subordination and Depression Among Young People in Rural China
Author: Jie Zhang (Central University of Finance and Economics) and Eric Y. Liu (Renmin University of China) |
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Women Religious in a Changing Urban Landscape: The Work of Catholic Sisters in Metropolitan Cleveland
Author: Robert L. Fischer (Case Western Reserve University) and Jennifer Bartholomew (Case Western Reserve University) |
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Religion, Secularism, and Political Discourse in Tanzania: Competing Perspectives by Religious Organizations
Author: Mohammed A. Bakari (University of Dar es Salaam) |
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2011 Volume 72010 Volume 62009 Volume 52008 Volume 42007 Volume 32006 Volume 22005 Volume 1Article 12:
Retention Strategies and Religious Success: A Regional Comparison of American Jews
Author: Michael K. Abel (University of Washington) |
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Images of God: The Effect of Personal Theologies on Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, and Religious Behavior
Author: Christopher Bader (Baylor University), Paul Froese (Baylor University) |
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Purity and Anger: Gentiles and Idolatry in Antioch
Author: Magnus Zetterholm (Lund University) |
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Social Mobility and Sect Transformation: Testing the Regression-to-the-Mean Hypothesis
Author: Sean F. Everton (Stanford University) |
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The Gnostic Church of Brazil: Contemporary Neo-Esotericism in Late-Modern Perspective
Author: Andrew Dawson (University of Chester) |
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Does Religion Promote Trust?: The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment
Author: Richard Sosis (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Connecticut) |
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The Social and Symbolic Boundaries of Congregations: An Analysis of Website Links
Author: Christopher P. Scheitle (Pennsylvania State University) |
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Religious Competition and Revival in Italy: Exploring European Exceptionalism
Author: Massimo Introvigne (CESNUR, Torino, Italy), Rodney Stark (Baylor University) |
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| Article 4:
Folk Temples and the Chinese Religious Economy
Author: Graeme Lang (City University of Hong Kong), Selina Ching Chan (Shueyan College), Lars Ragvald (Lund University) |
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Niches in the Islamic Religious Market and Fundamentalism: Examples from Turkey and Other Countries
Author: Massimo Introvigne (CESNUR, Torino, Italy) |
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Atheism
Author: William Sims Bainbridge (Arlington, Virginia) |
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The Political Origins of Religious Liberty
Author: Anthony Gill (University of Washington) |
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