Journal of Religion & Society http://www.creighton.edu/jrs

The Journal of Religion & Society is a refereed electronic journal that has been established to promote the cross-disciplinary study of religion and its diverse social dimensions through the publication of research articles, essays and opinions, review articles, and book reviews. The focus of the journal is American religions and Western religious traditions. The journal is published by the Kripke Center at Creighton

University to facilitate the exploration of religion and its role in society. It publish peer-reviewed research for an international audience. It is open access to ensure the widest distribution and access to its publications.

The journal is edited Ronald A. Simkins, the director of the Kripke

Center; the editorial board consists of the many Faculty Associates of the center.

Forthcoming Articles Five Options for the Relationship between the State and Sharia Councils: Untangling the Debate on Sharia Councils and Women’s Rights in the United Kingdom

Machteld Zee, Leiden University, The Netherlands Religious Modernism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism in Polish Catholicism and Egyptian Islam

Paul Brykczynsk, University of Michigan A Sign of the Times: Catholic Advocacy for Social Justice in Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1958

Baba G. Jallow, Creighton University Tawḥīd al ’uluhiyya, Secularism, and Political Islam

Johan Eddebo, Uppsala University Faith, Sport and Disengaged Youth

Ruth Graveling, Mike Collins, and Andrew Parker, University of Gloucestershire, UK Islam and Assimilation in the West: Religious and Cultural Ingredients in American Muslim Experience

John H. Morgan, Graduate Theological Foundation Revisiting Sacred Metaphors: A Religious Studies Pedagogical Response to the Rise of the Nones

Terry Shoemaker, Western Kentucky University William Simpson, Louisville, KY

How Christians and Muslims Can Embrace Religious Diversity and Each Other: An Evangelical Perspective

Benjamin B. DeVan, University of Durham, UK and Emory University African Initiated Churches, Pivotal in Peace-Building: A Case of the Johane Masowe Chishanu

Obediah Dodo, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe Richard G. Banda, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe Gloria Dodo, Zimbabwe Open University

Supplements The journal also publishes a supplement series consisting of

occasional collections of essays on a particular theme or topic. Published supplements include:

The Bible, the Economy, and the Poor (2014) The Greening of the Papacy (2013) Religion and the Visual (2012) Religion, Health, and Healing: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry (2011) The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Scholarship, Faith, and Higher Education

(2011) Women, Gender, and Religion (2009) Faithful Citizenship: Principals and Strategies to Serve the Common Good

(2008) Religion and the Environment (2008) The Contexts of Religion and Violence (2007) Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Finding God in All Things