Margarita A Mooney
Biographic Data
| ID | 292289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita A Mooney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mooney |
| SIGNATURE | MOONEY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Human Agency and Mental Illness
How might critical realism provide a better metatheoretical framework to understand the complex causality behind experiences of mental illness? How do we understand the agency of people suffering from mental illness? Prior work on critical realism and disability has argued that critical realism helps move past one or another form of reductionist explanations for illness, whether that is biological, environmental or psychological. But using a crit…
Relationships with God among Young Adults
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Although understandings of the human person are foundational to social science theory and research, sociologists reflect less on the characteristics of personhood than we do concepts such as structure and culture. 1 Although sociologists rarely engage in ontological debates about personhood, the social sciences nonetheless often contain unstated views of the person that give rise to conflicting accounts of human motivation and the interaction bet…
Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive‐Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities
Much social theory tends to emphasize the external goods of social practices, often neglecting the internal goods of those practices. For example, many analyses of religious rituals over‐emphasize the instrumental and individualistic ends of prayer and liturgy by describing such religious practices as effective means for achieving external ends like positive emotions, psychological benefits, social status, or social capital. By contrast, we use a…
Religion as A Context of Reception
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Mo…
Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City
Une Laïcité 'Légitme
Across Generations
Taming the River
Faith makes us live
Relationships with God among Young Adults
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Religion as A Context of Reception
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Mo…
Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive‐Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities
Much social theory tends to emphasize the external goods of social practices, often neglecting the internal goods of those practices. For example, many analyses of religious rituals over‐emphasize the instrumental and individualistic ends of prayer and liturgy by describing such religious practices as effective means for achieving external ends like positive emotions, psychological benefits, social status, or social capital. By contrast, we use a…
Taming the River
Faith makes us live
Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City
Une Laïcité 'Légitme
Across Generations
Religion as A Context of Reception
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Mo…
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Although understandings of the human person are foundational to social science theory and research, sociologists reflect less on the characteristics of personhood than we do concepts such as structure and culture. 1 Although sociologists rarely engage in ontological debates about personhood, the social sciences nonetheless often contain unstated views of the person that give rise to conflicting accounts of human motivation and the interaction bet…
Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive‐Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities
Much social theory tends to emphasize the external goods of social practices, often neglecting the internal goods of those practices. For example, many analyses of religious rituals over‐emphasize the instrumental and individualistic ends of prayer and liturgy by describing such religious practices as effective means for achieving external ends like positive emotions, psychological benefits, social status, or social capital. By contrast, we use a…
Human Agency and Mental Illness
How might critical realism provide a better metatheoretical framework to understand the complex causality behind experiences of mental illness? How do we understand the agency of people suffering from mental illness? Prior work on critical realism and disability has argued that critical realism helps move past one or another form of reductionist explanations for illness, whether that is biological, environmental or psychological. But using a crit…
Relationships with God among Young Adults
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)