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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
18,867 Views
17 Pages

25 February 2016

In the wake of the Faith-Based Initiative in the USA, substantial research has resulted in an increased awareness of religious congregations and faith-based organizations as welfare service providers. The next frontier appears to be the role of relig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,995 Views
14 Pages

17 March 2021

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a faith scale for young children. Data were collected from 424 young children, who had not yet entered elementary school, with their parents rating their faith level. Sixty-five preliminary questio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,546 Views
23 Pages

26 February 2024

Topic: This review explores the important issue of the ‘institutional sustainability’ (IS) of faith-based development organizations (FBDOs) providing microfinance services to the poor in the developing world. IS has often been equated wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,214 Views
12 Pages

3 November 2021

The culture of provision of adult religious education and faith development, whereby talks or courses are made available at parish level and/or in formal educational settings, has undoubtedly dominated the Irish scene for many years. The low level of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,820 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2025

The teaching of the Bible emphasizes the importance of prayer for Christians’ faith and spiritual growth, particularly during times of trial and difficulty. Through prayers, Christians enable their spiritual experience of continuous transformat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,825 Views
16 Pages

27 April 2023

This paper explores the issue of project sustainability through an analysis of the experiences of a Faith-Based Development Organisation (FBDO) in Bo, Sierra Leone. The FBDO in question was approached by members of their local Catholic Women Associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,536 Views
16 Pages

11 March 2025

The complex interwoven crises of climate disruption and biodiversity loss demand not only rapid technological innovation for sustainable development but also major shifts in consumption and behaviour, implying a need for responses rooted in ethical v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,556 Views
12 Pages

5 March 2019

Nigeria is both a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, with Islam and Christianity being the dominant religions. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is therefore an institution that the Muslim segment of the country can readily identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,693 Views
11 Pages

12 March 2024

With 85% of this planet’s population adhering to a religion, faith communities are the largest transnational civil society actors in the world. This accords them a major role in societal processes, aincluding current global challenges as spelle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,307 Views
17 Pages

20 June 2018

This qualitative study employs the framework of Schlossberg’s Transition Theory to offer readers an introduction into recently-conducted research on ex-felons transitioning into, through, and out of higher education within the context of the Co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
17,048 Views
21 Pages

25 September 2019

In this article, we highlight the contributions of the findings from a branch of the American Families of Faith national research project that pertain to positive religious and spiritual development in youth. We present detailed findings from six pre...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,455 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2021

In this contribution, we explore youngsters’ positionality regarding religion and present an example to facilitate them to ‘research’ their own beliefs and their affective commitments to their faith. We start with a short general introduction in Fowl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,986 Views
16 Pages

24 November 2021

Insufficient attention has been paid to the interface between religion, business and development, allowing assumptions and stereotypes to abound. This paper takes a broadly conceptual and sociological approach to the development potential of the Evan...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3,156 Views
3 Pages

16 June 2023

While the concept of sustainable development has a history of more than 50 years now, with origins dating back to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, it would take the publication of the influential 1987 report of the World C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,824 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2020

This paper reports on the development of a novel 10-item scale that measures beliefs about aging as well as religious-based beliefs about aging. The Religious Beliefs and Aging Scale (RBAS) shows acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.74) and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,580 Views
21 Pages

Who Is Interested in Developing the Way of Saint James? The Pilgrimage from Faith to Tourism

  • Rossella Moscarelli,
  • Lucrezia Lopez and
  • Rubén Camilo Lois González

2 January 2020

The Way of St. James in Spain is the main European pilgrimage route. Currently, it is a cultural, tourist, monumental, spiritual, and sports route. For this reason, the paper aims to discuss the concept of the “Polysemy of The Way”, by an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,080 Views
28 Pages

14 March 2023

Social science and religious studies scholars should endeavor to broaden theories, methods, and samples to be more inclusive. Therefore, we have conducted an “equity audit” of the American Families of Faith (AFF) project. We evaluated the...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4,139 Views
9 Pages

The Missionary Approach to Development: Ensuring Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education for the Most Marginalized

  • Jenny Ackermann,
  • Eamonn Casey,
  • Seamus Collins,
  • Anthony Hannon and
  • On behalf of Misean Cara

Missionary development organizations across all denominations are vital to providing quality inclusive education in developing countries, often being the only providers of quality education for marginalized people. Research conducted by Misean Cara s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,780 Views
15 Pages

2 November 2021

A significant challenge facing leaders of Catholic schools in Ireland today is to ensure an appreciation for, and understanding of, the Catholic identity of the school among members of staff. A first aim of this research project was to create a ‘vita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,567 Views
13 Pages

22 February 2025

Providing food security has traditionally been an important motive for development cooperation. At the same time, agriculture also has a major impact on the environment, which in turn threatens food production itself. This article argues that the ten...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,535 Views
20 Pages

Pushing Back on Displacement: Community-Based Redevelopment through Historically Black Churches

  • Branden Born,
  • Rachel Berney,
  • Olivia Baker,
  • Mark R. Jones,
  • Donald King and
  • Dylan Marcus

26 January 2021

Gentrification and subsequent displacement are common problems in cities, and result in the removal of poor communities and communities of color from urban areas as they move to cheaper locations in the metropolitan region. Here we describe a communi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,101 Views
13 Pages

7 July 2021

This article explores the following question: Given the Roman Catholic Church’s present-day teaching on catholicity, how can St. John Henry Newman’s historically conscious, imaginative view of catholicity assist Catholic Christians today in understan...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,076 Views
21 Pages

11 August 2023

In this article, I argue that the research field of religion and development and diaconal studies, the study of Christian social practice, share a common subject of inquiry: the social impact of religion. The field of religion and development investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
20,994 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2019

Previous research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in young children. This study introduces the concept of selective sanctification as a refinement to existing theory and, in doing so, adds to a sm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,564 Views
15 Pages

25 July 2022

This article addresses the question of how religious narrative identity and subjective religiosity change over the course of 15 years. The cases portrayed are deconverts who have changed their religious affiliations multiple times. It was carved out...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,464 Views
16 Pages

2 November 2021

This paper discusses the types, faith attributes, development characteristics, and limitations of Christian social organizations in China. China’s religious social service organizations mainly include four types of organizations: associations, privat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
68,714 Views
14 Pages

24 September 2021

This paper argues for the appreciation of Filipino folk religiosity as part of cultivating authentic faith expressions among Filipinos. It presents historical, anthropological, sociocultural, and theological views on significant folk religious groups...

  • Article
  • Open Access
945 Views
12 Pages

14 May 2025

Many pastors, faith leaders, and community organizers are isolated and under-connected to communities of praxis that can accompany them as they go about their social change work, helping them to ground their organizing in their faith lives. There is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,198 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2020

Faith-based actors are often recognised as contributors to both conflict and peace. However, their work to prevent violent conflict, rather than bring an end to or recover from it, is largely unexplored. This is despite the growth of conflict prevent...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,695 Views
28 Pages

12 August 2016

Recent U.S. policy regarding faith-based organizations (FBO) envisions “partnerships with government” that include both financial and non-financial relationships. This paper explores the current nature of a three-way partnership among faith communiti...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,556 Views
16 Pages

20 May 2016

Efforts to enlist small faith-related organizations as partners in public service delivery raise many questions. Using community social service networks as the unit of analysis, this paper asks one with broader relevance to nonprofit sector managers:...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,160 Views
16 Pages

12 April 2019

Religion often is conceived as the sine qua non of the human, thus imbedding religious activity implicitly even within our cosmopolitical globalization processes and secular political concepts. This depiction of the human as ever-religious raises a h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,950 Views
13 Pages

17 October 2024

This paper considers the legacy of the historic contribution of faith communities to education for the employment rights of teachers in schools with a religious character. The contribution of faith communities to state education was originally reflec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,474 Views
34 Pages

31 August 2022

This is Part I of a triptych. It addresses the latent potential of the imagination in constructing a sense of identity. Included is the role of faith in overcoming the obstacles presented by a social imaginary dominated by literal idolatry that leads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,170 Views
17 Pages

18 September 2021

Religious commitment is a significant factor for the development of strengths of character. Previous studies have confirmed that for religious people, it is not religious affiliation but religious orientation that has influenced positive outcomes. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,390 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2024

The process of moving away from faith in God has taken place in Europe with varying dynamics in individual countries at least since the end of the Second World War. In Poland, secularisation slowed down significantly during the Communist period; howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,046 Views
9 Pages

Exploring the Relationship Between Flourishing and the Light Triad of Personality in Honduran Adults

  • Miguel Landa-Blanco,
  • Nicolle Espinoza-Rivera,
  • Ivin Caballero-Juárez and
  • Raquel Mejía-Sánchez

2 April 2025

Flourishing refers to a state of optimal well-being and life satisfaction, while the Light Triad traits—Kantianism, Humanism, and Faith in Humanity—represent a prosocial and benevolent approach to interpersonal relationships. This study e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,698 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2023

In the United States, Christianity’s customs, calendar, and behaviors have long influenced scholarship on what religion looks like. Is this template useful for studying other religions, such as Neopaganism? Neopaganism is a set of earth-based,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,410 Views
26 Pages

7 June 2016

In the following, we characterize the contemporary conservative Evangelical movement as an example of contentious politics, a movement that relies on both institutional and noninstitutional tactics to achieve political outcomes. Examining multiple in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,693 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2021

Healthcare chaplaincy in the National Health Service (NHS) has rapidly changed in the last few years. Research shows a decline of people belonging to traditional faith frameworks, and the non-religious patient demographic in the NHS has increased swi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,141 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2016

The cinema of the Dardenne brothers represents a new kind of cinema, one that challenges a number of our conventional ways of thinking about the distinction between religion and secularism, belief and unbelief. Their films explore the intricacies of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,809 Views
19 Pages

Perspectives of Community- and Faith-Based Organizations about Partnering with Local Health Departments for Disasters

  • Michael Stajura,
  • Deborah Glik,
  • David Eisenman,
  • Michael Prelip,
  • Andrea Martel and
  • Jitka Sammartinova

Public health emergency planners can better perform their mission if they develop and maintain effective relationships with community- and faith-based organizations in their jurisdictions. This qualitative study presents six themes that emerged from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,717 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2021

This paper develops a model that advances our understanding of how social enterprises respond to the complexity of a constellation of multiple, often competing goals, referred to here as institutional logics. Introducing a religious logic to the reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,452 Views
12 Pages

4 January 2023

The Nigerian social, public, political and religious landscapes have changed significantly over time with the emergence and proliferation of Pentecostal megachurches. The majority of these churches are structured and characterized with a peculiar mis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,133 Views
16 Pages

Youth, Sport, and Faith: Identity Formation in High School Athletes

  • Andrew Parker,
  • John B. White and
  • Andrew R. Meyer

14 October 2023

It is widely accepted that the transition from youth to adulthood in western industrialized societies brings with it a series of tensions and dilemmas in terms of identity formation. One of the areas where such formational issues often manifest thems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
809 Views
16 Pages

25 April 2025

The theme of the current Special Issue, ‘Faith in Action: Examining the Power and Purpose of a Public Theology in Contemporary Society’, leaves a lot of scope for definition. Here, the theme is addressed via the lens of the public life an...

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