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Center for Critical Research on Religion

Critical Research on Religion
Volume 14, Issue 2
August 2026

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Table of Contents

Articles:

“Faith, Community, and Resilience: Gazan Women’s Coping Strategies During Genocide”
by Bilal Hamamra, Fayez Mahamid, Asala Mayaleh, and Mariam AL-ashaal

“From metanoia to megalomania: A psychoanalysis of Christianity’s birth pangs”
by Daniel A Wood

“Warfare prayer and the use of spiritual symbols by religious commuters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria”
by Oluwaseun O Afolabi and Peter Ayoola Oderinde

Special Section: Religion and Science in Sociological Perspective: Assessing Their Relationship

“Introduction: Religion and Science in Sociological Perspective: Assessing Their Relationship”
by Alex D J Fry and Gustavo Morello

“Inclusion or exclusion?: Tech workers’ views on religion in the tech workplace in China and the United States”
by Di Di

“Religion and science, faith and medicine: A worldviews approach to English evangelical medics’ perspectives”
by Jennifer Riley

“Science vs. religion: But what are we actually disagreeing about?”
by Nick Spencer

Book Reviews:

Hans Joas, Why the Church? Self-Optimization or Community of Faith
Reviewed by Neslihan Bilge

Stacey K. Guenther, Xiaoan Li, and Michelle A. Scheidt, eds., A Review of Redefining Spiritual Spaces in the Age of Technology: Innovations and Pitfalls
Reviewed by Ratan Sarkar and Guriya Sharma

Keshavarzi Hooman, Elzamzamy Khalid, Ansari Bilal Ali, and Zaidi Aamir Azhar, eds., Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature: A Primary Source Reader
Reviewed by Yaqeen Sikander ... See MoreSee Less