BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine religious factors associated with alcohol involvement in Mauritius. The three main religions on the island, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Islam, promote different views of the appropriate use of alcohol. Based on reference group theory, we hypothesized that both the content of a religion's alcohol norms and an individual's religious commitment wo...

Islam is a comprehensive religion guiding the lives of its followers through sets of rules governing the personal, social, and public aspects through the verses of the Holy Qur'an and Hadiths, the compilation of the traditions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), the two main documents that serve as guidelines. Islam is explicit with regard to using animals for human purposes and there is a rich traditi...

the overall aim of this paper is to highlight a transcendental usage of the religion of islamin the qur’an. i will show that the notion of islamas a unitary religion is used in the qur’an as a genus for religions (adyan) which have appeared throughout human history. this usage will show that there is a sense of religion which guarantees the essential unity of all religions and prepares us to un...

This essay aims to examine the characteristics and criteria of good management as prescribed by the Qur’an and traditions, especially the sayings of Imam Ali (a) in Nahj al-balagah. These have been recommended by the aforementioned sources with the intent of creating a prosperous society. By “management” we mean the general sense of the word, which includes the management of organizat...

Suicide terrorism is an international problem that endangers the well-being of whole populations. Standard explanations suggest that religious fanaticism is a primary driving force in the generation of suicide bombers. A growing body of empirically based scholarship, however, indicates that suicide terrorism is a multifactorial phenomenon that cannot easily be explained away as an outcome of re...

iran is a society with religious infrastructure, in which islam and shiism have had great influence. meanwhile culture and iranian literature, especially poetry has a great position in reflecting religious symbols. ghajarid era is one of the persian literature periods in which religion, especially shiism has great reflection. in this era, by reinforcing religious bases of poems, poets try to tr...

Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion’s possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to the overall degree of religiosity, the specific impact of different religions, religious competition or...