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Redeeming The City: Exploring The Relationship Between Church And Metropolis, Meredith Ramsay

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author calls attention to a neglected force in urban political life by highlighting how positivism undermined scholarly interest in cultural forces, particularly religion. She shows that although community organizing was formerly led by leftist radicals, today it is led by the church. Five factors contribute to the leading role of congregations in grassroots organizing and urban revitalization. Analysis and interpretation of these factors led the author to conclude that secularization and urban restructuring have left only the church with a sufficient moral and institutional presence in distressed urban neighborhoods to spearhead a return to more direct participatory forms of …

Squinting Windows In Millennium Light, Eamon Maher

Articles

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Each Mind A Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, And The New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (Book Review), Christel Manning

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Book review by Christel Manning.

Satter, Beryl. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 9780520217652

Religiopoiesis, Ursula Goodenough

Biology Faculty Research

Religiopoiesis describes the crafting of religion, a core activity of humankind. Each religion is grounded in its myth, and each myth includes a cosmology of origins and destiny. The scientific worldview coheres as such a myth and calls for a religiopoietic response. The difficulties, opportunities, and imperatives inherent in this call are explored, particularly as they impact the working scientist.

Sacred Politics: Is Heaven Closed To The Wretched Of The Earth?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores the political and religious implications of a decision by the leaders of a religious institution for many of its followers and the appeal of the religion itself.

Religious Involvement And Dispositional Characteristics As Predictors Of Work Attitudes And Behaviors, Tami Leigh Knotts

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to empirically examine the effects of (1) religious involvement on job attitudes, (2) dispositions on job attitudes, and (3) religious involvement on workplace behaviors. This study also assessed whether job attitudes mediated the effect of religious involvement an workplace behaviors or the interaction effect of religious involvement and dispositional characteristics on workplace behaviors.

Higher levels of religious involvement were hypothesized to lead to more positive work attitudes and behaviors. Conservative and self-transcendent values along with positive well-being were expected to lead to positive attitudes at work. The effect of religious involvement on work behaviors …

Reflections On Scientific And Religious Metaphor, Ursula Goodenough

Biology Faculty Research

The importance of scientific conflicts for theology and philosophy is difficult to judge. In many disputes of significance, prominent scientists can be found on both sides. Profound philosophical and religious implications are sometimes said to be implied by the new theory as well. This article examines the dispute over natural selection between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould as a contemporary instance of such a conflict. While both claim that profound philosophical conclusions flow from their own alternative account of evolution, I suggest that the implication is not as great as is claimed and that the alleged implications have as …

The American Board's Single Missionary Women In American Indian Missions, 1810–1860, Lisa Jacqueline Travis

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Between 1810 and 1860 in American Indian missions, single missionary women comprised half of the female workforce in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Because the ABCFM operated as a business for converting and assimilating American Indians, it hired single women to perform vital and various tasks. Missionary couples requested that the ABCFM appoint single women to teach, perform domestic work, and care for mission children. Biographically, they resembled each other, but their reasons for becoming missionaries varied. Some single women became missionaries after lifelong dreams, but others because the suggestion was made. As workers, some were …

Irrelevancy Of God: Criticism Of The Rational Religious Paradigm, Boaz Ahad Ha'am

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

The author looks at works that call for the assimilation of philosophy with religion. The capstone questioned the rationality of this logic by taking a closer look at the Real Religious Paradigm. It is argued that one cannot claim to be Rational and Religious at the same time without compromising either position, therefore no person can be RRP unless they are nonsensical.

Trends. United States Foreign Policy, Iran, And Mirror Imaging, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the tension between the rule of law and democracy vs. religious authority in the context of international relations between the United States and Iran.

Three Reviews Of Mormon America: The Power And The Promise, Brian Q. Cannon, Alf Pratte, Marie Cornwall

BYU Studies

Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling. Mormon America: The Power and the Promise. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. xxvi; 454 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, appendices, index. $26.00.

Reflections On Science And Technology, Ursula Goodenough

Biology Faculty Research

Science and technology are frequently confused. This essay points out the bases for this confusion and then focuses on a basic distinction, namely, that whereas science brings us information that we have little choice but to absorb and reflect upon, technology is something that humans elect to do and, hence, can also elect not to do. It is proposed that technological ethics are most cogently undertaken with scientific understanding as the linchpin and religious/artistic sensibilities as the muse.

"Not So Fast, Mr. Wilson." A Review Of Genes, Genesis And God: Values And Their Origins In Natural And Human History By Holmes Rolston., M. Therese Lysaught

Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Judaism In Cuba 1959 – 1999, Moisés Asís

Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.

Afro-Cuban Diasporan Religions: A Comparative Analysis Of The Literature And Selected Annotated Bibliography, Sara M. Sanchez

Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.

A Reformation Debate: John Calvin & Jacopo Sadoleto, John C. Olin

Religion

In 1539, Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto, Bishop of Carpentras, addressed a letter to the magistrates and citizens of Geneva, asking them to return to the Roman Catholic faith. John Calvin replied to Sadoleto, defending the adoption of the Protestant reforms. Sadoleto’s letter and Calvin’s reply constitute one of the most interesting exchanges of Roman Catholic/Protestant views during the Reformationand an excellent introduction to the great religious controversy of the sixteenth century.

These statements are not in vacuo of a Roman Catholic and Protestant position. They were drafted in the midst of the religious conflict that was then dividing Europe. And they …

Religion In The Workplace: Proceedings Of The 2000 Annual Meeting Of The Association Of American Law Schools Section On Law And Religion, William P. Marshall, Roberto L. Corrada, Michael W. Mcconnell, Joanne C. Brant, Robert W. Tuttle, Ira C. Lupu

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The religion clauses of the Constitution do not have to stand against one another. Viewed broadly they both encourage tolerance of religious practice and belief, the Establishment Clause by not allowing one religion to occupy a place above all others and the Free Exercise Clause by allowing all religions to flourish. The Workplace Religious Freedom Act does no violence to either clause in attempting to restore religion to its place among other important concerns of government

Religion/Religions In The United States: Changing Perspectives And Prospects, Stephen J. Stein

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Religious Liberty at the Dawn of a New Millennium held at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington on April 9, 1999.

The Faith Of The Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses To Hasidic Rapture, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Book review of Allan Nadler's work The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture.

Love, Loss Of Faith, And Kate O'Brien, Eamon Maher

Articles

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Religion As Opium, Religion As Vitamin: Comments On Pope John Paul Ii's Papacy And Political Power, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article considers the interface between institutionalized and organized religion on the one hand and formally constituted and secular governmental authority on the other, in the context of Pope John Paul II's papacy.

Representative Democracy And The Non-Democratic Force Of Religion: Turkey, Israel, Algeria, India, And The United States, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies and provides examples of a destructive, non-democratic force that is intrinsic to a democracy. This force impinges on democracy from outside and from within.

Trends. Religious Killing: Going By The Book, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the unfortunate social phenomena in India of religion-based killing and desecrating.

The Psychoanalyst And The Exorcist: Perspectives On Psychology And Religion, Diane Jonte-Pace

Religious Studies

A century ago psychology declared war on religion. Describing religion as "nothing but psychology projected into the external world," Sigmund Freud, the first psychoanalyst, mounted a campaign to expose religion as something far worse than a comforting illusion. He tried to show that religious belief and practice were harmful to both psyche and culture. In his view religion distorted and deformed the mind by demanding that we refrain from thinking deeply or from asking serious questions. Religion forces us, he claimed, to accept the authority of others, and it promotes excessive guilt and shame for transgressions of its mandates. In …

Los "Popol Wuj" Y Sus Epistemologías: Las Diferencias, El Conocimiento Y Los Ciclos Del Infinito, Carlos M. López

Modern Languages Faculty Research

In this book the author studies one of the documents contained in the Ayer MS 1515, commonly known as the Popol Wuj (or Vuh). This text constitutes a fragmentary but not necessarily coherent corpus of writings, however, it still is a very important piece of the cultural and epistemological discourse of some of the pre-colonial Mesoamerican civilizations. Another important characteristic of this text is the superposition of multiple re-phonetizations and translations to which the text has been subjected. This transforms it into a text written under conditions of coloniality that encompasses several layers of meanings intersected by Western concepts. …

Some Early Adams County Communities, Their Churches, And Church Lands, Charles H. Glatfelter

Adams County History

The earliest European settlers in today's Adams county were basically a religious people. While probably most of them should not be described as particularly pious, they did have the fear of the Lord in their hearts and wanted to have access to the services of some religious organization, either the one to which they were accustomed in Europe or one with which they had affiliated in America. If they belonged to groups such as the Quakers, Mennonites, or Brethren, it was easy for them to develop internally the leadership necessary to function successfully as a religious community. If they were …

Byu Studies From 1967 To 1983, Charles D. Tate Jr.

BYU Studies

In my editorial in the first issue of BYU Studies that I edited, I noted that from its inception the journal was to be a "Voice for the Community of LDS Scholars." Since there are enough scholarly journals that will publish secular scholarly studies by LDS authors, BYU Studies was distinctively to be the journal in which faithful Latter-day Saint scholars could publish articles that explored the correlation of their secular studies and their religious convictions. As most of the rest of the world does not believe in modern revelation as a viable medium of scholarly information, none of the …

Assessing Marital Closeness Of Christian Married Couples Through Communication Instruction In The Local Church, Nina Lagreeta Davis Conner

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Taming Technology: Harnessing The Power Of Computers In The Ministry Of The Church, C. Milton Lowe

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

George H. Shriver Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

The collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Georgia Southern Professor Emeritus, George H. Shriver. Materials span from 1958 to 2009 and include correspondence, teaching materials, published articles, and manuscripts related to religion in the American South. Box 9 consists of an accrual of additional papers from Wake Forest University, which has been kept separate from the original collection. Additional materials related to Shriver’s coaching career for Georgia Southern’s Lady Eagles Tennis team are also included.

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