In our comparative perspective we use six nation cultures to test if supernatural attributions differentiate religious and secular authority. Using semantic dimensions derived from Osgood, we empirically match the affective meaning of identities to the Christian concept of God with secular alter identities. The same mechanism is used to identify behaviors, emotions, and traits that are attribut...

This paper introduces the Focused Stochastic Diffusion Network as a novel method of self-localisation for an autonomous wheelchair in a busy, complex environment. The space of possible positions is explored in parallel by a set of cells searching in a competitive co-operative manner for the most likely position of the wheelchair in its environment. Trials of the SENARIO autonomous wheelchair pr...

one of the greatest preoccupations in the field of sociology of religion is a practical (pragmatic) definition of religion and religiosity which is mostly studied in social psychology and can be divided into sociological tradition or collective-social tradition and psychological or subjective-individual tradition. prior to glock and stark, scholars considered different aspects and principles fo...

purity involves commitment and awareness of the principles of a religion so that these principles can affect a person’s individual and social life. since religion deals with fulfilling social needs and those public profits within which the group’s desires lie, today it is expected that a religion can attract and guarantee commitment in its followers. meanwhile, new cities, especially baharestan...

this paper aims to show the impact of fear of god, as one of the most important signs of religious spirituality, on improving sexual and gender relationships in family and society as well as other social relationships and thus to offer some procedures for enhancing and expanding this character at familial and societal levels in order to reduce the problems involved in social relations specially...

More than 1 billion people worldwide report no religious affiliation. These nones represent the world's third largest religion-related identity group and are a diverse group, with some having previous identification others never identifying as religious. We examined how 3 forms of identification-current, former, never-influence range cognitions, emotions, behavior. Three studies using nationall...

The purpose of the present paper is a sociological analysis on the attitude of the Islamic religions approximation. It is an attempt to answer the question what the attitude of students is to the Islamic religions approximation. According to the theory which tends to Tzyshh and Krvmka, three conceptual elements, evaluative and action elements have been analyzed, and in terms of population, the ...