These data demonstrate that geographically, civically, and economically-similar groups differ in their moral reasoning and that such differences are best accounted for by religious and ontological beliefs.Tennant, JosephTennant, J. C. (2015). Harm and non-harm moral judg- ments and moral justifications in two American religious groups (Unpublished ...
Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.” Freedom to choose trumps even reality itself, and relativism in all its forms was enshrined as dogma. The only self-evident truth is that there is no objective truth. Suc...
The Holy Father most certainly had the Pachamama controversy in mind when he exhorted the Faithful to “not be quick to describe as superstition or paganism certain religious practices that arise spontaneously from the life of peoples. Rather, we ought to know how to distinguish the wheat growing...
The sun caught the stained-glass window and brought the scene suddenly to life creating an almost religious experience. The elusive frog so sensitive to water pollution, safe here where our waste was used to nurture life. A benign, quiet smell of wood shavings. I heard the characteristic ...
This article provides a duoethnographic reflection of the authors’ experiences as Asian American women who work in the field of criminology and criminal justice. As two faculty members who actively and loudly contradict notions of quiet, submissive Asian women (or, more specifically, shout “Fuck ...
Let’s step into a young man’s shoes: it can’t be easy to feel that you’re blamed for all of society’s ills. Sure, straight white men have made the world go tits up, burying us in wars, colonialism, predatory capitalism, religious fundamentalism, mass shootings, and other absolute...
The story of the sea dragon eating the seven moons was first documented in a 1913 collection of old Visayan stories titledMga Sugilanong Karaan,compiled by the Visayan poet Fernando Buyser, who also goes by his pseudonym "Florpinas." The story was full of Catholic religious context due...
Jonathan Edwards Goes to Movies: What Story Structure Can Teach Us About Religious Affections The inciting event presents the hero with a decision: Shall I continue in the relative comfort of my business-as-usual life, or risk pursuing a new and more dangerous goal? A lot like Lent is desig...
2009. “Christians and Gays in Northern Ireland: How the Ethno-Religious Context Has Shaped Christian Anti-Gay and Pro-Gay Activism.” In Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities, edited by Stephen Hunt, 123–139. London: Routledge. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar...
Mary Dalytaught for 33 years at Boston College. Her radical feminist philosophy -- thealogy she sometimes called it -- criticized androcentrism in traditional religion and tried to develop a new philosophical and religious language for women to oppose patriarchy. She lost her position over her bel...