Religious Beliefs and Environmental Behaviors in China

Local Religious Beliefs and Organizational Risk-Taking Behaviors*

We study two distinct effects of local religions on organizational risk-taking: religious beliefs share a common aversion to pure risk but have diverging attitudes toward speculative risk. As predicted, we find that mutual fund managers’ speculative risk-taking behaviors vary with specific local religious beliefs – funds in low-Protestant (or high-Catholic) areas have higher return volatilities...

Relationship between religious beliefs and self-management behaviors in patients with kidney transplantation

Background and Purpose: Every year, a large number of patients with chronic renal failure undergo kidney transplantation in the hope of getting rid of dialysis problems and improving their quality of life. Nonetheless, the post-transplant treatment process in these patients is long, complicated, and requires strengthening self-management behaviors to manage the disease process. In our culture, ...

Religious Beliefs, Religious Participation and Cooperation

The paper analyzes the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation and social cooperation. In particular, we focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, analyze their e¤ect on social interactions in society and identify a "spiritual" as well as a "materi...

Paranormal beliefs, religious beliefs and personality correlates

Medically valid religious beliefs.

Patient requests for "inappropriate" medical treatment (violations of the standard of care) based on religious beliefs should have special standing. Nevertheless, not all such requests should be honored, because some are morally disturbing. The trouble lies in deciding which ones count. This paper proposes criteria that would qualify a religious belief as medically valid to help physicians deci...