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Religion
Matthew Elia
Summary: This article explores the issue of climate apartheid and proposes transnational solidarity as an organizing concept for response. The author criticizes the use of anthropocene discourse and mestizaje discourse by ethicists, and proposes an alternative called "cimarronaje".
JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS
(2023)
Article
Religion
Albert Piette
Summary: In this article, the author explores various aspects of religious experience, including rituals, Catholic parishes, and his own beliefs. A common theme of negation in human presence emerges, characterized by detachment, distraction, oscillation, and reservation. The author hypothesizes that these modes of hesitation originate from the earliest act of belief, and discusses their origins and influences. The article also includes a critical debate between the author's concepts and the ontological turn in anthropology.
STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Mahak Mahajan
Summary: By analyzing the curriculum, textbooks, and pedagogical practices of a girls' madrasa in India, this article explores how contemporary Indian Muslims transmit religious teaching in a rapidly changing and westernizing environment, challenging stereotypes and highlighting the importance of education in shaping individual and community identity.
JOURNAL OF BELIEFS & VALUES-STUDIES IN RELIGION & EDUCATION
(2023)
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Religion
David Seljak
Summary: Baum emphasizes the importance of scholars not turning their backs on evil in their academic research. He believes that society needs the expertise of scholars to address various crises and that participating in public debates can lead to better scholarship, but only if scholars adopt a critical approach and consider the perspectives of marginalized groups.
STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES
(2023)
Article
Religion
Donald Wiebe
Summary: This essay responds to the question of whether scholars of religion in the employ of the modern university have an obligation to help meet the challenges and threats to the social order sometimes linked to aspects of religion. The author argues that raising this question itself ignores or reveals a failure to understand the character and purpose of the modern university, which is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The professor's task, therefore, is simply to transmit accepted knowledge, seek out new knowledge, and confer on students the skills necessary to grow their knowledge of the world and its contents. The author maintains that considering this question amounts to an unjustifiable attempt to inflate the importance of the profession, resulting in scholars of religion in academia becoming public intellectuals and departments for the study of religion resembling non-governmental organizations.
STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES
(2023)
Article
Religion
Robin Willey, Amy Kaler, John Parkins
Summary: In his 2017 book, David Hollinger argues that Protestant American missionaries, historically, had a 'boomerang' effect on their targeted populations by intending to change them through evangelism. However, they ended up having a greater impact on the population they departed from. This boomerang effect is attributed to the missionaries' altered values that made them more critical of racism, colonialism, and religious inflexibility, leading to the concept of 'missionary cosmopolitanism'. The study suggests that this process continues as Christian faith-based humanitarian and development workers are 'cosmopolitanized' through their fieldwork.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGION
(2023)
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Religion
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Summary: This study investigates the juxtaposed ideological paradigms represented in Nisha Pahuja's documentary The World Before Her, analyzing the correlations between Western and colonial cultural influences and the desire to return to 'home'/roots. It examines cultural dichotomies and complexly situated voices through a decolonial and feminist critical lens, focusing on the representation of polarized categories and the Miss World contest organized in Bengaluru, India in 1996. The study also highlights the protests against the propagation of Westernization by the Durga Vahinis, the women's wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and their symbolic representation of non-negotiable female identity and Hindu traditions in the face of women's progress.
CULTURE AND RELIGION
(2023)
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Religion
Paul L. Gareau
Summary: Religion is a problematic category in understanding the sociopolitical dynamics that impact settler Canadian identity. The article discusses the intersectionality between religion and relationality and highlights the need for a critical treatment. It also emphasizes the importance of recognizing and promoting public and political understanding of Indigenous relational knowledges.
STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Zeinab Ghaem Panah, Mahima Kalla, Kylie P. Harris, Jafar Bolhari, Harold G. Koenig, Roksana Mirkazemi
Summary: There is evidence that the spiritual/religious beliefs of war veterans change over time, and this study focuses on such changes in Iranian war veterans after three decades of war. The study identifies two key themes: questioning previous beliefs and finding new spiritual/religious values. These findings can assist service providers in providing appropriate care and interventions.
PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Religion
Clayton Fordahl
Summary: This article advances the study of civil religion and American society by examining and comparing two different conceptualizations of civil religion, assessing their relative importance in American public life, and exploring the limitations of modern political theories in replicating the functions of traditional religion.
JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sarah K. Bublitz, Cornelia Brandstoetter, Martin Fegg, Joaquim J. Ferreira, Per Odin, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Wassilios G. Meissner, Richard Dodel, Anette Schrag, Stefan Lorenzl
Summary: The Care of Late-Stage Parkinsonism (CLaSP) study assessed the needs and care provision for people with late-stage Parkinson's disease and their caregivers. People with late-stage Parkinson's disease reported family, partnership, and spirituality as important areas. However, they had lower levels of satisfaction and fulfillment in most areas compared to healthy participants. The study highlights the importance of spiritual support, with chaplains playing a crucial role in helping people with Parkinson's disease maintain meaning in life.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Religion
Jan-Olav Henriksen
Summary: This article discusses two misleading conceptions that may hinder adequate action to mitigate the consequences of climate change and proposes alternative ways to understand humanity's place in and activity with nature.
DIALOG-A JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Religion
Atle Ottesen Sovik
Summary: The article argues for the need of a concrete, simple, well-justified, and global concept for climate justice and proposes such a concept. It suggests that nobody should use more than what provides others, present and future, with equal opportunities to live sustainably on the planet. The concept is made tangible through the use of a global hectare and is further translated into climate dollars to establish a clear understanding of fair and sustainable behavior.
DIALOG-A JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Religion
S. J. Luke Taylor
Summary: This article argues that Ignatian pedagogy in the Jesuit tradition allows great literature to become transformative. It takes a case study of a course named 'Becoming a Hero: From Homer to Harry Potter' taught in a London Jesuit comprehensive school to explore the benefits of this pedagogy for personal growth and holistic learning.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Steven Foertsch, Rudra Chakraborty, Paul Joosse
Summary: QAnon is gaining attention in scholarly circles, with disagreement on how to categorize the movement. This study examines the proposition that QAnon could be a mix of a religious cult and a political populist movement. Results show that QAnon is primarily a political populist movement that also utilizes religious rhetoric. This highlights the asymmetric nature of the conflation of religion and politics in the contemporary American civil sphere.
POLITICS AND RELIGION
(2023)
Review
Religion
Ingie Hovland
Summary: This article reflects on the concept of feminist citation of the canon in the study of religion, using a triangular conversation between Hovland, Dons, and Wittgenstein as an example. The author discusses the questions of why, who, and how to cite, and argues for a feminist citation practice that claims the canon.
STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Marcella A. Locke, Paul Youngbin Kim
Summary: This study examined the relationship between stigma and help-seeking attitudes among Asian American students. The results showed that self-stigma mediated the association between close others' stigma and help-seeking attitudes. Additionally, religious coping moderated this relationship, while emotion socialization and regulation did not. The findings also highlighted the importance of religious coping and emotion regulation strategies in shaping views of counseling.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Religion
Xi Li
Summary: With the rise of the trend to reread biblical texts through the lens of trauma, scholars have applied Jeffrey Alexander's definition of social trauma to reading biblical texts in the Hebrew Bible. However, this article argues that Alexander's theory does not align well with the narratives of the Hebrew Bible.
JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
(2023)
Article
Religion
Margrethe Kamille Birkler
Summary: This article proposes that eco-theology should become indecent, emphasizing a practice-oriented approach rather than formalization and intellectualization. It introduces Marcella Althaus-Reid's indecent theology and its relevance to mobilizing religious communities in the climate crisis, and exemplifies perception-oriented eco-theology through Sallie McFague's work.
DIALOG-A JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Zachary D. Broeren, Paul A. Djupe
Summary: Research has shown that Americans who subscribe to Christian nationalism tend to favor their ingroup while harboring animosity towards outgroups. However, not all Christian nationalists automatically denigrate outgroup members; this is influenced by their belief in Christian persecution. Hatred towards outgroups among Christian nationalists is triggered by perceived threats.
POLITICS AND RELIGION
(2023)
