May 11, 20202 min read

SHERM Vol. 2, No. 1 Now Available!

The Global Center for Religious Research is excited to announce the release of our latest issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERM). As a not-for-profit publication, SHERM publishes the latest social-scientific, historiographic, and ecclesiastic research on religious institutions and their ministerial practices. The journal is dedicated to the critical and scholarly inquiry of historical and contemporary religious phenomena, both from within particular religious traditions and across cultural boundaries, so as to inform the broader socio-historical analysis of religion and its related fields of study.

You can read each publication of SHERM for free online or purchase a print copy at a substantial discount!

Table of Contents

EDITORIALS

1) What is the Socio-Historical Method in the Study of Religion? https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.01

By Darren M. Slade (pp. 1-15)

2) Essays Introducing a Jewish Perspective on the Gospel of John https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.02

By Charles David Isbell (pp. 17-26)

DIALOGUES IN PHILOSOPHY

3) Craig on the Resurrection: A Defense https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.03

By Stephen T. Davis (pp. 28-35)

4) The Implausibility and Low Explanatory Power of the Resurrection Hypothesis—With a Rejoinder to Stephen T. Davis https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.04

By Robert Greg Cavin & Carlos A. Colombetti (pp. 37-94)

SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH

5) Imagined as us -American: Patriotic Music, Religion, and Violence Post-9/11 https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.05

By David Kwon (pp. 96-120)

6) Identifying the Conflict between Religion and Science https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.06

By David Kyle Johnson (pp. 122-48)

7) Agnomancy: Conjuring Ignorance, Sustaining Belief https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.07

By Jack David Eller (pp. 150-80)

INVITED POSITION PAPERS

The authors were asked to answer the following question:

“Can or should faith (specifically, religious faith) be considered an epistemology? If yes, what makes faith an epistemological method? If no, what epistemological methods preclude faith from being considered?”

8) Is Faith a Path to Knowledge? https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.08

By Evan Fales (pp. 182-205)

9) Faith and Epistemology: Religious Truth Claims and Epistemic Warrant https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.09

By Julius Gurney III (pp. 207-16)