A5018579667- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Byzantine Studies and History
- Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
- Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Poetry Analysis and Criticism
- French Literature and Critical Theory
- Augustinian Studies and Theology
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
- Theater, Performance, and Music History
- Religion and Society Interactions
- American and British Literature Analysis
- Literature and Culture Studies
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Language and Culture
- Central European Literary Studies
- Race, History, and American Society
- Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
- Theological Perspectives and Practices
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Medieval Literature and History
- Historical and Literary Studies
Baylor University
2018-2025
Belief in life after death is one of the oldest and most widespread spiritual convictions, it has been shown to offer various psychological benefits. Understanding predictors afterlife beliefs crucial for gaining insight into religious tenets their broader impacts on individuals societies. This retrospective longitudinal study used first wave nationally representative data from Global Flourishing Study, covering 22 countries (N = 202,898), examine 13 potential childhood belief adulthood. We...
Belief in life after death is among the oldest forms of spiritual belief, found nearly every world civilization and religion. While several national surveys highlight differences afterlife beliefs across countries, none have explored sociodemographic factors associated with these beliefs. Using data from Wave 1 Global Flourishing Study (N=202,898), weighted to be nationally representative, we estimated proportion people affirming belief an 22 countries. Primary analyses demographic variables...
Background: Empirical research suggests that suffering may degrade health and wellbeing. However, further is needed to develop an epidemiology of can contribute identifying potential targets for addressing population-level suffering.Methods: This cross-sectional study used the first wave nationally representative data from 22 countries included in Global Flourishing Study (N = 202,898) explore associations 13 individual characteristics retrospectively recalled childhood factors with...
BackgroundSuffering has been identified as an important public health issue worthy of closer attention. This preregistered study takes initial step toward developing epidemiology suffering by exploring the distribution in 22 countries and testing for sociodemographic disparities suffering.MethodsUsing nationally representative data from first wave Global Flourishing Study (N = 202,898), we estimated proportion people who endorsed ‘some/a lot’ each country. Variation proportions across...
The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study of over 200,000 participants in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, spanning all six populated continents, with nationally representative sampling, intended annual data collection for five years on numerous aspects flourishing its determinants. A description the study, design, survey development, sampling procedures, participant characteristics provided. We report relations between composite index demographic...
Background: Recent work has explored the sociocultural aspects of pain. However, global evidence is scarce, and little known about how levels pain differ across cultures demographic groups within those different cultures.Methods: Using a nationally representative dataset 202,898 individuals from 22 countries random effects meta-analysis, we examine proportion people in key (age, gender, marital status, employment education, immigration religious service attendance, race/ethnicity)...
Background: The socioeconomic, psychosocial, and behavioural factors that influence physical pain have been largely explored. However, evidence on the childhood circumstances shape in adulthood is scarce.Methods: Using a nationally representative dataset of 202,898 individuals from 22 countries random effects meta-analysis, we examine 13 potential predictors adulthood.Results: We find experiences, personal attributes, familial social meaningful varied associations with levels pain....
Abstract Gregory of Nyssa’s critiques various forms social injustice hinge on his rigorous theological anthropology. For Gregory, slavery, the accumulation wealth, and mistreatment poor are evil because they deny freedom proper to human creatures created according divine Image. However, Gregory’s anthropology also contains, we will argue, a distinct account ways in which humanity’s difference from God – particularly its poverty limitation reveals important aspects particular ultimately...
Abstract Gregory of Nyssa’s interpretation the Lord’s Prayer’s request for daily bread is difficult to place in history petition’s exegesis. Early interpreters—among them Tertullian, Cyprian, Origen, Cyril Jerusalem, Ambrose, Augustine, and Peter Chrysologus—stressed what often called, Henri de Lubac’s phrase, a “spiritual interpretation” as knowledge, Eucharist, or Christian doctrine. The majority modern commentators, contrast, understand petition ask material food. Gregory, however,...
Abstract In his familiar essay in Phenomenology and the ‘Theological Turn’ , Jean‐François Courtine writes that ‘cardinal experience’ of revelatory phenomena would undoubtedly be incarnation. But its singularity, this experience, he admits, seems to elude phenomenological thought. Against such a judgement, many Christian traditions affirm Christ's ongoing presence diverse privileged sites, eucharist, saints, Church itself, and, via own identification with ‘the least these’ Matthew's parable,...
Abstract Wounds appear throughout the writings of Jean‐Louis Chrétien and Gregory Nyssa. Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description prayer as a “wounded word,” phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension phenomenal life which contingency groundlessness finitude gifts. Gregory, turn, draws upon language wounding Song Songs soul's ascent God. The first two parts this essay bring light how, for both writers, woundedness characterizes human describes encounters with...
Abstract The subject of this article is the iconic meeting divine presence and absence. In icon, scandalous: icon speaks impossibility correspondence, making God present, at same time reality presence. Nothing or in commensurable to presence; yet poverty its witness nature a that transcends paradox compresence exclusivity. This essay develops account conversation with reading Eugene Vodolazkin’s novel Laurus depiction holy foolery. Drawing parallels between scandalous transgressive profane...
The tenor Roland Hayes came to international fame in the Harlem Renaissance, but obscurity that followed his success reveals catch-22 confronted him and many of contemporaries. Hayes's career was plagued by choice between, on one hand, assimilating black music narrations primitivity authenticity and, other, subscribing projects music's transformation under tutelage Western form. first part this article traces tangled discourse meaning significance spirituals from Frederick Douglass...
Long considered unfinished, "Resurrection, imperfect" remains among the least studied of John Donne's poems. A recent flurry interpretation, however, has entertained possibility that poem's incompleteness is poetic artifice—often relating unfinished nature to its transcendent subject, Christ's resurrection. While this essay draws from context, it abstains question intentionality regarding and instead considers theological import resurrection as a limit finite speech. Does transcendence, poem...