Faith in Action:

The effect of religious faith on allocating time to action in the way of God

This essay examines the effect of religious faith on the allocation of time for doing deeds in the way of God among the citizens working in free jobs in Zahedan city. The statistical population is the citizens working in free jobs in Zahedan city, and the number of samples was calculated using the Cochran formula of 500 people, the data was collected with a questionnaire. The questionnaire cons...

Measurement as reflection in faith-based social action

This article reflects upon a process of developing an approach to measuring faith-based contributions to social action, examining the problems and challenges involved. A systematic review of research arising in regional faith-based settings in England [Dinham (2007) Priceless, Unmeasureable: Faith-based Community Development in England in the 21st Century, FbRN, London] shows the considerable e...

Faith in action: building capacity for interfaith volunteer caregiving.

Faith healing and faith in healing.

Sarkar and Seshadri have presented an interesting paper in this issue on the ethical approach that a physician should take when faced with requests for faith healing (1). The paper describes four approaches that the physician can take. These are rejecting the request, keeping oneself detached from the issue, endorsing the request and trying to understand the practices concerned so as to make a ...

dEfininG faitH and faitH PraCtiCES

recent studies demonstrate an overlapping relationship between faith practices of individuals, family functioning, and the corporate faith of congregations. this study reports on the psychometric properties of the Christian faith Practices Scale (CfPS), which was created to empirically measure dykstra’s faith behaviors or “practices.” analysis of a large purposive sample (n=7,403) indicates ini...