Jonathan Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5060-8829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Circumcision of the Spirit in Cyril of Alexandria
Jonathan Morgan argues that Cyril of Alexandria's interpretation of circumcision provides invaluable insight into his complex doctrine of salvation. Spiritual circumcision - or circumcision of the Spirit - is a recurring theme across the extensive body of work he produced before the Nestorian controversy in 428. When Cyril considers the meaning and scope of circumcision, he recognizes it as a type that can describe a range of salvific effects. Fo…
Dissecting how ideological orientations predict attributions and policy attitudes toward unhoused individuals
Across two cross‐sectional samples ( N‐ total = 612), we examined how people's ideological orientations related to their attributions about the causes of homelessness, and how these attributions relate to policy preferences. In both studies, we assessed eight ideological orientations, four domains of attributions about homelessness, and three domains of policy attitudes. In Study 1, we measured attributions using self‐report scales, whereas in St…
Contract Damages
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Principles, Accidents and Exceptions
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Keep the black box open
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion
Building an HIV Learning Health Care Community for Youth in Florida
Religion Evolving
Journal Article Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis Get access Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis. Equinox Publishing, 2022. 262 pages. $100.00 (hardcover), $32.00 (paperback or e-book). Jonathan Morgan Jonathan Morgan University of Colorado, Colorado Springs [email protected] Search for other work…
Maintaining the Elegant Façade of the Acts–omissions Distinction
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A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma
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The Thin End of the Wedge
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Pseudo-Codification of the Public-Interest Defence in Defamation
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Do Social Constraints Inhibit Analytical Atheism? Cognitive Style and Religiosity in Turkey
Recent studies claim that having an analytical cognitive style is correlated with reduced religiosity in western populations. However, in cultural contexts where social norms constrain behavior, such cognitive characteristics may have reduced influence on behaviors and beliefs. We labeled this the ‘constraining environments hypothesis.’ In a sample of 246 Muslims in Turkey, the hypothesis was supported for gender. Females face social pressure to …
Finding Belonging, Finding Agency
The arrival 44,617 unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) to Sweden between 2014 and 2016 was met by a large number of civil society volunteers responding to their needs and assisting them in the early stages of their asylum processes, among them the Church of Sweden (CoS). What was not expected was that thousands of these Muslim-background young people would decide to convert to Christianity. Drawing on data collected during fieldwork at two CoS con…
Mothers’ gardens in arid soil
This article reports on a qualitative, interview-based study about religious and spiritual coping among economically and racially marginalized U.S. mothers with depression. The study aimed to understand how the women interpreted and made existential meaning out of their experiences. The authors used a combination of grounded theory and narrative analysis to identify and interpret themes. Two key findings emerged: (a) narratives of distress and st…
Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation
Recent advances in artificial intelligence and computer science can be used by social scientists in their study of groups and teams. Here, we explain how developments in machine learning and simulations with artificially intelligent agents can help group and team scholars to overcome two major problems they face when studying group dynamics. First, because empirical research on groups relies on manual coding, it is hard to study groups in large n…
Finding Spirits in Spirituality
Stress and Hope at the Margins
For many people across the world, experiences of depression include features that extend beyond the biopsychiatric model, which predominates in research on the relationship between religious and spiritual coping and depressive symptoms. How does attending to these diverse experiences of depression challenge our understanding of the dynamic between religiosity and depression? This paper presents thirteen qualitative interviews among economically m…
Religion and dual-process cognition
Over the last two decades, various lines of research within cognitive science and social psychology have converged to create dual-process theory. The received view of this theory suggests two distinct cognitive processes: one is intuitive and the other reflective. But the defining features of these two types have been called into question by recent critiques. In response, new constraints have refined the distinctive features of each type, and dis…
A Developmental Model of Interreligious Competence
This paper articulates a developmental model for how individuals relate to religious difference. We begin by reviewing scholarly work on multicultural competencies and initial research on religious diversity. To provide a framework for our model, we explore the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and its relationship to research within the psychology of religion. The review closes by examining and critiquing a preliminary model of in…
Hope and positive religious coping as predictors of social justice commitment
The present study tested a theoretical model of dispositional hope and positive religious coping as unique predictors of social justice commitment over and above impression management in a sample of graduate students (N = 214) in helping professions at an Evangelical Protestant university in the USA. This empirical study utilised a cultural psychology approach with a theoretical framework developed from (a) an earlier cultural psychology study of…
Strict Liability for Police Nonfeasance? The K inghan R eport on the R iot ( D amages) A ct 1886
The R iot ( D amages) A ct 1886 imposes a no‐fault obligation on police forces to compensate owners of property damaged in rioting. Following the riots across E ngland in 2011 an independent H ome O ffice review, the K inghan R eport, concluded that the fundamental principle of the A ct should be retained, while the machinery should be modernised. The R eport conceives of the A ct as a useful, if highly unusual, compensation scheme that may ease …
Contract Law Minimalism
Running Behavioral Studies with Human Participants
1. Introduction 2. Preparation For Running Experiments 3. Potential Ethical Problems 4. Risks to Validity to Avoid While Running an Experiment 5. Running a Research Session 6. Concluding a Study Appendix 1: A Checklist for Preparing Studies Appendix 2: Example Scripts for Running Studies Appendix 3: Example Consent Form Appendix 4: Example Debriefing Form Appendix 5: Example Institutional Review Board Application Appendix 6: Considerations When R…
On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination
The writings in this volume highlight Hughes's contributions to the sociology of work and professions; race and ethnicity; and the central themes and methods of the discipline. Hughes was the first sociologist to pay sustained attention to occupations as a field for study and wrote frequently and searchingly about them. Several of the essays in this collection helped orient the first generation of black sociologists, including Franklin Frazier, S…
Preparation for the advent
The Development of Sociology and the Social Gospel in America
The following paper analyzes the connections between the social involvement of the churches (particularly Protestant) and the beginnings of academic sociology in the United States in the final years of the nineteenth century. The Social Gospel and early sociology were often indistinguishable in terms of both ideas and leading personnel. This close parallelism is seen as a major factor in the early acceptance of sociology as an academic discipline…
Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation
Recent advances in artificial intelligence and computer science can be used by social scientists in their study of groups and teams. Here, we explain how developments in machine learning and simulations with artificially intelligent agents can help group and team scholars to overcome two major problems they face when studying group dynamics. First, because empirical research on groups relies on manual coding, it is hard to study groups in large n…
Facilitating Diverse Political Engagement with the Living Voters Guide
Unlike 20th-century mass media, the Internet requires self-selection of content by its very nature. This has raised the normative concern that users may opt to encounter only political information and perspectives that accord with their pre-existing views. This study examines the different ways that voters appropriated a new, purpose-built online engagement platform to engage with a wide variety of political opinions and arguments. In a system ai…
Contextual Factors in the Rise of Academic Sociology in the United States
Cet article effectue l'analyse de certains elements culturels et educatifs qui favoriserent la croissance de la sociologie en tant que discipline universitaire aux Etats‐Unis a la fin du dix‐neuvieme siecle. II est a remarquer que cette evolution est unique au contexte americain. Les facteurs qui retiennent l'at‐tention de l'auteur son les suivants: les attitudes vis‐a‐vis l'education superieure; rinfluence des ideaux et methodes allemands concer…
Tort, Insurance and Incoherence
Some commentators have doubted whether, as is generally believed, liability insurance has had a significant expansionary effect on the law of tort. This article contends that the common assumption is, indeed, correct, and the crucial influence of insurance is clearly seen in the recent cases of Vowles v Evans and Gwilliam v West Herts NHS Trust . Once this has been acknowledged, the consequent radical incoherence in the basis of tort law needs to…
The Development of Sociology and the Social Gospel in America
The following paper analyzes the connections between the social involvement of the churches (particularly Protestant) and the beginnings of academic sociology in the United States in the final years of the nineteenth century. The Social Gospel and early sociology were often indistinguishable in terms of both ideas and leading personnel. This close parallelism is seen as a major factor in the early acceptance of sociology as an academic discipline…
Contextual Factors in the Rise of Academic Sociology in the United States
Cet article effectue l'analyse de certains elements culturels et educatifs qui favoriserent la croissance de la sociologie en tant que discipline universitaire aux Etats‐Unis a la fin du dix‐neuvieme siecle. II est a remarquer que cette evolution est unique au contexte americain. Les facteurs qui retiennent l'at‐tention de l'auteur son les suivants: les attitudes vis‐a‐vis l'education superieure; rinfluence des ideaux et methodes allemands concer…
Preparation for the advent
On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination
The writings in this volume highlight Hughes's contributions to the sociology of work and professions; race and ethnicity; and the central themes and methods of the discipline. Hughes was the first sociologist to pay sustained attention to occupations as a field for study and wrote frequently and searchingly about them. Several of the essays in this collection helped orient the first generation of black sociologists, including Franklin Frazier, S…
Lost Causes in the House of Lords
Tort, Insurance and Incoherence
Some commentators have doubted whether, as is generally believed, liability insurance has had a significant expansionary effect on the law of tort. This article contends that the common assumption is, indeed, correct, and the crucial influence of insurance is clearly seen in the recent cases of Vowles v Evans and Gwilliam v West Herts NHS Trust . Once this has been acknowledged, the consequent radical incoherence in the basis of tort law needs to…
Transgressing, Puking, Covenanting
This article argues that the imperatives arising from the ecological crisis demand that Christian interpreters (re)visit the book of Leviticus and, in particular, its conception of land. Furthermore, it contends that the neglect of this most agriculturally engaged of biblical texts and the failure of Christianity to construct an ethically robust theology of land are hermeneutically connected. Leviticus' strange, yet profound descriptions of the l…
Facilitating Diverse Political Engagement with the Living Voters Guide
Unlike 20th-century mass media, the Internet requires self-selection of content by its very nature. This has raised the normative concern that users may opt to encounter only political information and perspectives that accord with their pre-existing views. This study examines the different ways that voters appropriated a new, purpose-built online engagement platform to engage with a wide variety of political opinions and arguments. In a system ai…
Contract Law Minimalism
Running Behavioral Studies with Human Participants
1. Introduction 2. Preparation For Running Experiments 3. Potential Ethical Problems 4. Risks to Validity to Avoid While Running an Experiment 5. Running a Research Session 6. Concluding a Study Appendix 1: A Checklist for Preparing Studies Appendix 2: Example Scripts for Running Studies Appendix 3: Example Consent Form Appendix 4: Example Debriefing Form Appendix 5: Example Institutional Review Board Application Appendix 6: Considerations When R…
Hope and positive religious coping as predictors of social justice commitment
The present study tested a theoretical model of dispositional hope and positive religious coping as unique predictors of social justice commitment over and above impression management in a sample of graduate students (N = 214) in helping professions at an Evangelical Protestant university in the USA. This empirical study utilised a cultural psychology approach with a theoretical framework developed from (a) an earlier cultural psychology study of…
Strict Liability for Police Nonfeasance? The K inghan R eport on the R iot ( D amages) A ct 1886
The R iot ( D amages) A ct 1886 imposes a no‐fault obligation on police forces to compensate owners of property damaged in rioting. Following the riots across E ngland in 2011 an independent H ome O ffice review, the K inghan R eport, concluded that the fundamental principle of the A ct should be retained, while the machinery should be modernised. The R eport conceives of the A ct as a useful, if highly unusual, compensation scheme that may ease …
Religion and dual-process cognition
Over the last two decades, various lines of research within cognitive science and social psychology have converged to create dual-process theory. The received view of this theory suggests two distinct cognitive processes: one is intuitive and the other reflective. But the defining features of these two types have been called into question by recent critiques. In response, new constraints have refined the distinctive features of each type, and dis…
A Developmental Model of Interreligious Competence
This paper articulates a developmental model for how individuals relate to religious difference. We begin by reviewing scholarly work on multicultural competencies and initial research on religious diversity. To provide a framework for our model, we explore the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and its relationship to research within the psychology of religion. The review closes by examining and critiquing a preliminary model of in…
Finding Spirits in Spirituality
Stress and Hope at the Margins
For many people across the world, experiences of depression include features that extend beyond the biopsychiatric model, which predominates in research on the relationship between religious and spiritual coping and depressive symptoms. How does attending to these diverse experiences of depression challenge our understanding of the dynamic between religiosity and depression? This paper presents thirteen qualitative interviews among economically m…
Mothers’ gardens in arid soil
This article reports on a qualitative, interview-based study about religious and spiritual coping among economically and racially marginalized U.S. mothers with depression. The study aimed to understand how the women interpreted and made existential meaning out of their experiences. The authors used a combination of grounded theory and narrative analysis to identify and interpret themes. Two key findings emerged: (a) narratives of distress and st…
Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation
Recent advances in artificial intelligence and computer science can be used by social scientists in their study of groups and teams. Here, we explain how developments in machine learning and simulations with artificially intelligent agents can help group and team scholars to overcome two major problems they face when studying group dynamics. First, because empirical research on groups relies on manual coding, it is hard to study groups in large n…
Pseudo-Codification of the Public-Interest Defence in Defamation
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Do Social Constraints Inhibit Analytical Atheism? Cognitive Style and Religiosity in Turkey
Recent studies claim that having an analytical cognitive style is correlated with reduced religiosity in western populations. However, in cultural contexts where social norms constrain behavior, such cognitive characteristics may have reduced influence on behaviors and beliefs. We labeled this the ‘constraining environments hypothesis.’ In a sample of 246 Muslims in Turkey, the hypothesis was supported for gender. Females face social pressure to …
Finding Belonging, Finding Agency
The arrival 44,617 unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) to Sweden between 2014 and 2016 was met by a large number of civil society volunteers responding to their needs and assisting them in the early stages of their asylum processes, among them the Church of Sweden (CoS). What was not expected was that thousands of these Muslim-background young people would decide to convert to Christianity. Drawing on data collected during fieldwork at two CoS con…
Maintaining the Elegant Façade of the Acts–omissions Distinction
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A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma
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The Thin End of the Wedge
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A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
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