RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION最新文献

Andrew Jackson Davis and Spiritualist Constructions of Religion(s) 安德鲁·杰克逊·戴维斯与宗教的唯心主义建构(五)

3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.13

E. H. Messamore

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Cross and Crown™: Trademarks and the Legal Naming of American Religions 十字架和王冠™: 商标与美国宗教的法律命名

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-08 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.10

Andrew Ventimiglia

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The Pluralization of Scripture in Early American Protestantism: Competing Bible Translations and the Debate over Universal Salvation, ca. 1700–1780 早期美国新教中圣经的多元化：圣经翻译的竞争和关于普遍拯救的争论，约1700–1780年

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-08 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.9

J. Stievermann, Benjamin Pietrenka

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“I Will Surely Have You Deported:” Undocumenting Clergy Sexual Abuse in an Immigrant Community “我一定会把你驱逐出境:”记录移民社区神职人员的性虐待

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.8

S. Reynolds

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“Fit to Be a Midwife”: Protestantism, Moral Character, and the State Supervision of Black Lay Midwives, 1931–1946 “适合当助产士”：新教、道德品质和国家对黑人非专业助产士的监督，1931-1946

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.7

Jamil W. Drake

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On The Host in the Modern World 论现代世界的主人

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.6

A. Alonso

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Mormonism's First Bad Girl: Lucy Harris and the Gendering of Faith and Doubt in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 摩门教的第一个坏女孩:露西·哈里斯和耶稣基督后期圣徒教会的信仰和怀疑的性别化

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.3

Quincy D. Newell, S. M. Patterson

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Not an “Ordinary Man”: J. Gresham Machen and the Un-Queering of Evangelical Theology 不是一个“普通人”:J. Gresham Machen和福音派神学的非同性恋

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.2

Austin L. Steelman

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Rebecca Jackson and the Problem of Celibacy 丽贝卡·杰克逊与独身问题

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2023.1

Rebekah Trollinger

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The Sabbath Observer, the Idiosyncratist, and the Religious Organization: How the EEOC Imagines Religion at Work 安息日观察者，特殊主义者和宗教组织:平等就业机会委员会如何想象工作中的宗教

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-01-16 DOI: 10.1017/rac.2022.12

I. Weiner

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