Historians have regularly acknowledged the significance of religious faith to the eugenics movement in Britain and the USA. However, much of this scholarship suggests a polarised relationship of either conflict or consensus. Where Christian believers participated in the eugenics movement this has been represented as an abandonment of 'orthodox' theology, and the impression has been created that...

The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

the Holy Father goes out of his way to praise the many positive contributions to human self-understanding made by philosophers who presuppose a split between faith and reason. For more on Fides et Ratio , see my “Fides et Ratio: A ‘Radical’ Vision of Intellectual Inquiry,” pp. 13-31 in Alice Ramos and Marie George, eds., Faith, Scholarship and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Asso...

Despite a large amount of assets under management and strong influence on the sustainable investment movement, very little is known about what ethical investing looks like from Christian perspective. We therefore analyzed policies unique dataset Christian-influenced mutual fund providers using structured–thematic content analysis. In detail, we looked at screens, techniques, public presentation...

This article analyzes the sociodemographic network characteristics and antecedent behaviors of 119 lone-actor terrorists. This marks a departure from existing analyses by largely focusing upon behavioral aspects of each offender. This article also examines whether lone-actor terrorists differ based on their ideologies or network connectivity. The analysis leads to seven conclusions. There was n...

As an Islamo-Arabic utterance,throughout the history of Islam, “Allahu Akbar” has been widely used as one of the most influential religious slogans since the advent of Islam in the 7th century CE. However, during the last four decades, it has gained a fairly global reputation thanks to various functions it has pragmatically come to serve in different social settings. Recentl...

Violent extremists’ communications regularly yield lethal consequences. Yet despite this importance, no clear framework yet exists that exposes in a coherent way the various markers of violent extremist language. We construct theoretical model language, integrating and refining existing approaches from different academic fields into comprehensive account its semantic content structure. evidence...

a Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler Klinik, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria. b Department of Neurology, Franz Tappeiner Hospital, Merano, Italy c Department of Economics and Statistics, Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, Torino, Italy d Department of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria e Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological...