Janel Kragt Bakker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janel Kragt Bakker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janel Kragt |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKKER J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegeville Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9029-641X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Welcome Neighbors Sign—A Pro-Immigration Design Artifact
This article tells the story of a tri-colored yard sign, the “welcome neighbors sign,” that originated in a small religious community in Virginia. Through Mennonite social networks, the sign became a popular symbol of political resistance to the dominant immigration narrative around the 2016 presidential election cycle and beyond. Using a case study approach, this article explores the evolution of the sign from a neighborhood conversation to a na…
Bereavement and Religion Online
Traumatic experiences such as stillbirth and neonatal loss are often profoundly life altering, with reverberations into nearly every arena of existence. For parents, stillbirth or neonatal loss commonly triggers an existential crisis, raising questions of meaning, coherence of life narrative, and a struggle toward transcendence. This chapter analyses research on religion online and bereavement, describes how parents articulate the impact of the l…
Sister Churches
Sister Churches profiles American Christians’ relationships with their counterparts in the global South through international congregational partnerships, demonstrating that such “twinning” relationships represent both philosophical shifts in missiology and changing structures of global religious engagement. As a counterpoint to prevailing motifs of segregation and friction between northern and southern Christians, this study depicts border-cross…
Bereavement and Religion Online
Stillbirth and neonatal death often trigger immense and long-lasting grief in parents. These life-altering losses both call upon and call into question parents' religious beliefs and practices. This qualitative research examines the impact of stillbirth and neonatal death on parental religiosity, broadly conceived to include personal spirituality and any religious affiliation, including atheism. It examines religion online, a nontraditional but i…
Molding Mission
An increasing number of North American congregations have forged long-term partnerships or “twinning” relationships with companion congregations in the global South. This trend represents a changing paradigm in Christian mission, and it reflects the multi-directional nature of global religious flows and the border-crossing dimension of religious communities. Using collective action frames, partnerships are formed as an expression of solidarity an…
Bereavement and Religion Online
Stillbirth and neonatal death often trigger immense and long-lasting grief in parents. These life-altering losses both call upon and call into question parents' religious beliefs and practices. This qualitative research examines the impact of stillbirth and neonatal death on parental religiosity, broadly conceived to include personal spirituality and any religious affiliation, including atheism. It examines religion online, a nontraditional but i…
Molding Mission
An increasing number of North American congregations have forged long-term partnerships or “twinning” relationships with companion congregations in the global South. This trend represents a changing paradigm in Christian mission, and it reflects the multi-directional nature of global religious flows and the border-crossing dimension of religious communities. Using collective action frames, partnerships are formed as an expression of solidarity an…
Molding Mission
An increasing number of North American congregations have forged long-term partnerships or “twinning” relationships with companion congregations in the global South. This trend represents a changing paradigm in Christian mission, and it reflects the multi-directional nature of global religious flows and the border-crossing dimension of religious communities. Using collective action frames, partnerships are formed as an expression of solidarity an…
Sister Churches
Sister Churches profiles American Christians’ relationships with their counterparts in the global South through international congregational partnerships, demonstrating that such “twinning” relationships represent both philosophical shifts in missiology and changing structures of global religious engagement. As a counterpoint to prevailing motifs of segregation and friction between northern and southern Christians, this study depicts border-cross…
Bereavement and Religion Online
Stillbirth and neonatal death often trigger immense and long-lasting grief in parents. These life-altering losses both call upon and call into question parents' religious beliefs and practices. This qualitative research examines the impact of stillbirth and neonatal death on parental religiosity, broadly conceived to include personal spirituality and any religious affiliation, including atheism. It examines religion online, a nontraditional but i…
Bereavement and Religion Online
Traumatic experiences such as stillbirth and neonatal loss are often profoundly life altering, with reverberations into nearly every arena of existence. For parents, stillbirth or neonatal loss commonly triggers an existential crisis, raising questions of meaning, coherence of life narrative, and a struggle toward transcendence. This chapter analyses research on religion online and bereavement, describes how parents articulate the impact of the l…
The Welcome Neighbors Sign—A Pro-Immigration Design Artifact
This article tells the story of a tri-colored yard sign, the “welcome neighbors sign,” that originated in a small religious community in Virginia. Through Mennonite social networks, the sign became a popular symbol of political resistance to the dominant immigration narrative around the 2016 presidential election cycle and beyond. Using a case study approach, this article explores the evolution of the sign from a neighborhood conversation to a na…
Anthropology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)