POST-RELIGION: TRADITIONALISTS’ ANALYSIS

An analysis of religion and mental illness.

Religion and Completed Suicide: a Meta-Analysis

INTRODUCTION Suicide is a major public health concern and a leading cause of death around the world. How religion influences the risk of completed suicide in different settings across the world requires clarification in order to best inform suicide prevention strategies. METHODS A meta-analysis using search results from Pubmed and Web of Science databases was conducted following PRISMA protoc...

Spatial Analysis with Spatial Religion Explorer

Shuming Bao University of Michigan [email protected] IIntroduction Although spatial phenomena have been extensively studied in various research fields, such as economic geography (e.g., convergence in per capita income growth rates, inter-regional and intersectorial flows of labor and capital, and regional resource endowments), environmental sciences (e.g., dispersion of air-borne pollutants, soil...

Religion and Suicide in Iran (Comparative Internal Analysis)

The relationship between religion and suicide has long been studied by social scientists, especially sociologists. In the present article, by reviewing the theoretical and empirical literature in this field of study, at first, the mechanisms of relationship between the religion and suicide are explained and then the main hypothesis of the research was evaluated empirically with secondary data o...

Critical Analysis of Traditionalists' Theory of Government during the Occultation of Twelfth Imam

Discourse of Shiite political system is based on Imamat and monarchy not only has no place in this system but is also contrary to it. From distant past this question has always been around whether the cooperation and accompanying of some Shiite scholars and jurisprudents with monarchs translates to the endorsement of monarchy. In the new age a discourse called tradition versus modernity has bee...