Jonathan Z Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81735 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jonathan Z Smith |
| PRENOMES | Jonathan Z |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH J Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1127-3712 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 357 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Preparing for a Second Trump Presidency
Reliance, Support, and Caregiving Among Married LGBTQ+ Americans
When LGBTQ+ people get married, they enter into a union that promises mutual reliance and caregiving, such as in the event of financial need or health care crisis. This mixed-methods study explores how 484 married LGBTQ+ individuals in the United States (192 cisgender men, 186 cisgender women, 106 trans/nonbinary) (a) negotiate disability (38% of couples) and illness in the context of unpaid and paid labor divisions, (b) provide care for each oth…
Perceived Impact of Marriage and Concerns About the Future of Marriage Equality
The Impact of Anti-DEI Legislation on LGBQ + and Heterosexual Faculty in Higher Education
LGBTQ parents’ accounts of their children’s experiences with heterosexism in schools
Children in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (trans), and queer (LGBTQ) parent families are vulnerable to exclusion and marginalization in the school setting, including both institutionalized and interpersonal stigma. Prior studies of LGBTQ parents have documented reports of heterosexism and homophobia in schools, but these studies have generally used small samples and focused on cisgender parent families. This mixed-methods study examines 419…
Myth of the Eternal Return
Divorced and separated parents during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused significant stress for individuals, couples, and families. Divorced and separated couples with children face unique stresses amid the pandemic. This mixed‐methods study explored these challenges among 296 divorced and separated parents: namely 204 women formerly partnered with men, 34 men formerly partnered with women, and 58 women formerly partnered with women, who were surveyed during Summer/Fall of 2020. Partic…
The Myth of the Eternal Return
A landmark work in the history of religions from a pioneer in the field First published in English in 1954, this founding work in the historical study of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Referring to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals o…
Health behaviors and outcomes of parents in same-sex couples
Research exploring health behaviors and outcomes among sexual minorities has yet to include same-sex parents, who face additional stressors associated with parenthood. This exploratory study investigates self-reported health behaviors (regular exercise, sleep, and alcohol use) and outcomes (chronic health conditions, depression, and overall health) among 141 parents in same-sex couples (N = 83 families) with adopted school-age children. Several p…
Trans activism and advocacy among transgender students in higher education
Trans students face institutional and interpersonal discrimination that renders them vulnerable to minority stress. Some trans students respond to minority stress, and perceptions of injustice on their campuses, via engagement in campus activism or advocacy. The current mixed methods study explores trans undergraduate and graduate students' explanations for engaging or not engaging in activism/advocacy and the types of activities in which they en…
Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents’ Experiences with Pediatricians
Despite unique health risks and outcomes among adopted children, most pediatricians receive little training about this population. The current mixed-methods study explored lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents' (n = 224, in 129 families) experiences with and perspectives on pediatricians. Parents in the study adopted via private domestic, public domestic, and international adoption. Parents who adopted via public domestic adoption were …
Health Care Experiences of Transgender Binary and Nonbinary University Students
An increasing number of young adults identify with nonbinary gender identities. Yet health providers and therapists often lack understanding of such identities. In this mixed-methods study of 506 transgender undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom (75%) had nonbinary gender identities, we aimed to understand participants’ mental health and health care experiences, and factors related to misgendering and less affirming treatment by provi…
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950–1993." Practical Theology, 10(1), pp. 108–109
Parent-school relationships and young adopted children’s psychological adjustment in lesbian-, gay-, and heterosexual-parent families
Workplace policies and mental health among working-class, new parents
Little research has explored linkages between workplace policies and mental health in working-class, employed parents, creating a gap in our knowledge of work-family issues across social class levels. The current U.S. study addresses this gap by employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how workplace policies and parental leave benefits predicted parents' depressive symptoms and anxiety in a sample of 125, low-income, dual-earn…
Perceptions of stigma and self-reported school engagement in same-sex couples with young children
Little research has explored same-sex parents' school engagement, although there is some evidence that same-sex parents' perceptions of openness versus exclusion in the school setting -as well as other interrelated contexts - may have implications for their relationships with and perceptions of their children's schools. The current cross-sectional study used multilevel modeling to examine the relationship between same-sex parents' perceptions of …
Re-forming the Undergraduate Curriculum
This chapter presents Jonathan Z. Smith's account of the development of undergraduate education. He says that “coherence and organization will not emerge from merely rearranging already existing courses by a process that resembles Lévi-Strauss's bricolage; it will only be achieved by courses specifically designed to fulfill widely agreed upon educational purposes.” He also identifies a shift from a language of topics and subjects to a language of…
Preschool selection considerations and experiences of school mistreatment among lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents
On Teaching Religion
"For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship on religion in matters of education and public policy. Education is not a side issue for Smith, and his essays continually shed light on fundamental questions. What diffe…
Gender-Typed Play Behavior in Early Childhood
Personality traits and marital satisfaction within enduring relationships
In this study of 125 heterosexual long-wed couples, we examined both spouses' personality traits and relative differences in partner perceptions of personality as predictors of marital satisfaction, simultaneously for both husbands and wives. As hypothesized, each of the Big Five personality traits emerged as significantly associated with marital satisfaction though significant between-trait and between-sex differences were observed. Most notably…
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of child care and housework (measured postadoption) in lesbian (n = 55), gay (n = 40), and heterosexual (n =…
Stigma, social context, and mental health
This is the first study to examine change in depression and anxiety across the first year of adoptive parenthood in same-sex couples (90 couples: 52 lesbian, 38 gay male). Given that sexual minorities uniquely contend with sexual orientation-related stigma, this study examined how both internalized and enacted forms of stigma affect the mental health of lesbians and gay men during the transition to parenthood. In addition, the role of contextual …
Entretien avec Jonathan Z. Smith
Bornet Philippe, Smith Jonathan Z. Entretien avec Jonathan Z. Smith. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°6, 2011. pp. 23-37
Violent Origins
To take place
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of child care and housework (measured postadoption) in lesbian (n = 55), gay (n = 40), and heterosexual (n =…
Native Cults in the Hellenistic Period Ich bin Isis
Personality traits and marital satisfaction within enduring relationships
In this study of 125 heterosexual long-wed couples, we examined both spouses' personality traits and relative differences in partner perceptions of personality as predictors of marital satisfaction, simultaneously for both husbands and wives. As hypothesized, each of the Big Five personality traits emerged as significantly associated with marital satisfaction though significant between-trait and between-sex differences were observed. Most notably…
Health Care Experiences of Transgender Binary and Nonbinary University Students
An increasing number of young adults identify with nonbinary gender identities. Yet health providers and therapists often lack understanding of such identities. In this mixed-methods study of 506 transgender undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom (75%) had nonbinary gender identities, we aimed to understand participants’ mental health and health care experiences, and factors related to misgendering and less affirming treatment by provi…
The Bare Facts of Ritual
When the Bough Breaks
The Wobbling Pivot
Trans activism and advocacy among transgender students in higher education
Trans students face institutional and interpersonal discrimination that renders them vulnerable to minority stress. Some trans students respond to minority stress, and perceptions of injustice on their campuses, via engagement in campus activism or advocacy. The current mixed methods study explores trans undergraduate and graduate students' explanations for engaging or not engaging in activism/advocacy and the types of activities in which they en…
Workplace policies and mental health among working-class, new parents
Little research has explored linkages between workplace policies and mental health in working-class, employed parents, creating a gap in our knowledge of work-family issues across social class levels. The current U.S. study addresses this gap by employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how workplace policies and parental leave benefits predicted parents' depressive symptoms and anxiety in a sample of 125, low-income, dual-earn…
Preschool selection considerations and experiences of school mistreatment among lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents
Gender-Typed Play Behavior in Early Childhood
Working-Class Jobs and New Parents' Mental Health
Little research has explored linkages between work conditions and mental health in working-class employed parents. The current study aims to address this gap, employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how levels of and changes in job autonomy, job urgency, supervisor support, and coworker support predicted parents' depressive symptoms in a sample of 113 dual-earner couples interviewed five times across the transition to parenth…
Fathers' Involvement in Child Care and Perceptions of Parenting Skill Over the Transition to Parenthood
This study explored first-time fathers' perceived child care skill over the transition to parenthood, based on face-to-face interviews of 152 working-class, dual-earner couples. Analyses examined the associations among fathers' perceived skill and prenatal perception of skill, child care involvement, mothers' breastfeeding, maternal gatekeeping, mothers' work hours, fathers' depressive symptoms, and fathers' beliefs about responding to a crying c…
Afterword
When I began as a teaching assistant some years ago, a senior professor offered the advice, of religion will flourish so long as they continue to stand on the body of divinity. The image this conjured in my mind was striking, some Christian version of a Purusha-type primordial sacrifice, and though I was disappointed to leam, after some days of diligent and discrete inquiry, that the phrase was, in fact, a somewhat archaic way of denoting the tra…
Adde Parvum Parvo Magnus Acervus Erit
Parent-school relationships and young adopted children’s psychological adjustment in lesbian-, gay-, and heterosexual-parent families
Marital idealization as an enduring buffer to distress among spouses of persons with Alzheimer disease
Few disease processes affect the dynamics of marital relationships like neurodegenerative disorders. Illnesses such as Alzheimer disease strip older adults of a lifetime of memories and, in the latter stages, even the ability to recognize one's spouse and children. In cross-sectional research, marital idealization (or the propensity to idealize one's spouse and relationship) has emerged as significantly associated with the absence of distress amo…
The Social Context of Lesbian Mothers' Anxiety During Early Parenthood
SYNOPSIS Objective . To prospectively explore change in mental health (and, specifically, anxiety) across the transition to parenthood for lesbian mothers. Design . Multilevel modeling was used to analyze data from 34 lesbian couples (68 women) at three time points (prenatal, 3 months postbirth, and 3.5 years after birth) to explore the influence of prenatal characteristics on the level of and change in women's anxiety during early parenthood. Re…
I Am a Parrot (Red)
Perceptions of stigma and self-reported school engagement in same-sex couples with young children
Little research has explored same-sex parents' school engagement, although there is some evidence that same-sex parents' perceptions of openness versus exclusion in the school setting -as well as other interrelated contexts - may have implications for their relationships with and perceptions of their children's schools. The current cross-sectional study used multilevel modeling to examine the relationship between same-sex parents' perceptions of …
Afterword
A Pearl of Great Price and a Cargo of Yams
Health behaviors and outcomes of parents in same-sex couples
Research exploring health behaviors and outcomes among sexual minorities has yet to include same-sex parents, who face additional stressors associated with parenthood. This exploratory study investigates self-reported health behaviors (regular exercise, sleep, and alcohol use) and outcomes (chronic health conditions, depression, and overall health) among 141 parents in same-sex couples (N = 83 families) with adopted school-age children. Several p…
Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents’ Experiences with Pediatricians
Despite unique health risks and outcomes among adopted children, most pediatricians receive little training about this population. The current mixed-methods study explored lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents' (n = 224, in 129 families) experiences with and perspectives on pediatricians. Parents in the study adopted via private domestic, public domestic, and international adoption. Parents who adopted via public domestic adoption were …
The Garments of Shame
Earth and Gods
The Legends of the Hasidim
Birth Upside down or Right Side up
Native Cults in the Hellenistic Period Ich bin Isis
Biblical Iconography The Tree of Light
Greek Funerary Practices Greek Burial Customs . Donna C. Kurtz , John Boardman
I Am a Parrot (Red)
The Wobbling Pivot
When the Bough Breaks
A Pearl of Great Price and a Cargo of Yams
Map is not Territory
Adde Parvum Parvo Magnus Acervus Erit
The Bare Facts of Ritual
Imagining Religion
Imagining Religion
"Jonathan Z. Smith on William J. Bennett's "To Reclaim a Legacy
To take place
Narratives into Problems”
"Narratives into Problems": The College Introductory Course and the Study of Religion Get access Jonathan Z. Smith Jonathan Z. Smith Jonathan Z Smith is the Robert O Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities, The University of Chicago, The College 1116 East 59th St, Chicago, 1L 60637 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 4, Winter 19…
To Take Place
To Take Place
In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the comparative study of religion. Smith stresses the importance of place-in particular, constructed ritual environments-to a proper understanding of the ways in which empty actions become rituals. He structures his argument around the territories of the Tjilpa aborigines in Australia and two sites in Jerusalem-the temple …
Connections
Connections Jonathan Z. Smith Jonathan Z. Smith Jonathan Z.Smith is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. This article was delivered as the Opening Address at the Academey's 1989 Annual Meeting. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, Spring 1990, Pages 1–16, https…
Scriptures and Histories
I am delighted to have this opportunity to participate in celebrating the contributions of Wilfred Cantwell Smith. For there is a sphere of faith and a cumulative tradition which we share: the academy and its work. It has brought us together for conversations, from time to time, which have been memorable for me in experiencing Smith's uncommon generosity and stubborn, unwavering commitment to discourse, punctuated by insights which always reveal …
Afterword
Afterword
When I began as a teaching assistant some years ago, a senior professor offered the advice, of religion will flourish so long as they continue to stand on the body of divinity. The image this conjured in my mind was striking, some Christian version of a Purusha-type primordial sacrifice, and though I was disappointed to leam, after some days of diligent and discrete inquiry, that the phrase was, in fact, a somewhat archaic way of denoting the tra…
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