Day Tripping in Jerusalem: The Curious Case of How Russian Orthodox Christians Became the Same-Day Religious Tourists in the Holy Landdoi:10.21427/436C-2T21Dino BozonelosInternational Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
In the chart below, you can see the difference between practicing and non-practicing Christians, in most European countries: Catholic Faith in America Just as with many European Christians, there are many American Catholics that have moved away from the Church. Also known as “Cultural Catholics”...
Not surprisingly,many faith organizations received federal money during the pandemic. For example, an entity called “American Baptist Churches in the USA” reportedly received $1.5 million in COVID-19 relief bailout money –in the form of two forgivable “loans”tha...
·Why the Jewish spiritual leaders are not able to unite the Jewish majority around the idea of building a better world for everybody with everybody? ·Why Orthodox rabbis prefer indoctrinating instead of reasoning in free-of-all discussions on the interpretation of the Torah thus severely...
scary thing was that, like a teenager who wears the same clothes as all the other kids at school, I unconsciously accepted the intellectual assumptions of my social environment. Only by spending time with orthodox Christians, who I mostly disagreed with, did I see the myopia of my worldview...
On the conceptual front, the reactivity hypothesis has faced criticism for its derivation from the previously contested frustration-aggression hypothesis and its lack of specificity. Many individuals or groups experience discrimination or exclusion without reacting with fundamentalism or radicalization (e.g....
2023. “Religion, Race, and Letterpress: Orthodox Christians in Nineteenth-Century New York City through the Lens of Kawkab America.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 91 (4): 854–874. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae027. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar Eastman, S...
“loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!"” (4) , so he wanted Christians to be more orthodox and become more pure to prevent these ...
There’s going to be on years and off years on decades and off decades, but nevertheless, you get something like this according to sarc, if you start with a thousand Christians in the year 40. Now if you want to say a thousand earlier than that, or if you want to say a little ...
Orthodox Jewish authorities do not recognize female rabbis, even if they have been ordained by other Jewish denominations. “Last year was my 25th year,” she adds. Aiello spent many years at synagogues in Florida, and also as a Hebrew teacher at a synagogue in St. Thomas, one of the Vi...