BACKGROUND Boarding Quran courses are religious institutions where course attendees spend large part of the year. Depression is an ever-increasing health problem. So, it is worth to study on the effects of religion concept and religious belief and behaviours' that religion concept brings, on depression. The main purpose of this study, is to analyse the effect of religious attitudes and behaviou...

1. Descriptive Analysis This study uses a subset of NELS students enrolled in urban schools. The primary reason why we focus on students at urban schools is that most private schools are located in those areas. 65.3 percent of 1,441 NELS individuals enrolled in private schools are present in municipal areas. 1 80.8 percent of Catholic school students reside in urban places. 2 Moreover, private ...

The most senior cleric in the Anglican church has provided an unexpected boost to Britain's growing concern about the influence of anti-evolutionary beliefs by saying that he does not believe that creationism should be taught in schools. Giving his first, wide-ranging, interview to The Guardian newspaper, the archbishop, Rowan Williams, was emphatic in his criticism of creationism being taught ...

This article explores the programmatic representations of Catholic Moral and Religious Education(EMRC) teachers, regarding disciplineprogram, in public schools municipality Porto (Portugal). Through a diachronic approach to socio-religious panorama religious teaching Portuguese schools, it is possible identify, nowadays, new challenges for Roman Church andforits school educators. The interviews...

ements of comprehensive sex education. And, on that score, they have come in for some criticism: “I understand the importance of meeting schools where they are now,” says Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, and former president and CEO of SIECUS. “Having said that...these standards will not fulfill young people’s needs for information and...

Background: Gentleness, ease and compromise with others cause the proper development of human emotions and in religious texts it is referred to as "tolerance". This moral virtue has a high importance and position among different schools and religious teachings, so the main question in this study was how the relationship between the moral virtues of tolerance in the school of liberalism with thi...

This article introduces social workers to the beliefs and practices associated with Paganism, Witchcraft, and Wicca and describes how social workers can help to create a welcoming environment for children and youths belonging to these religious minority groups. Drawing on social science research, social work literature, and a case example, the author presents suggestions for working with Pagan ...