Background & aim: Many researchers believe that religious doctrines have persistent effects on the mental and physical health and other aspects of human life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of pregnancy-related religious training on religious attitudes among pregnant women. Methods: This interventional study was conducted on 84 pregnant women with low and medium levels of religious ...

this paper tries to study the complex relationship between religion, popular culture and the internet. the internet not only prepares some facilities for religion, but also it’s a site for a new interaction between religion and popular culture. first, the paper points out five features of the internet which help to extend and promote the religious communication in the cyberspace: 1. deterritori...

various factors are engaged in broadening the culture and structures related to individualism, humanism and egoism which have provided humans with a uniform lifestyle leaving the religious in confrontation with their environs. in order to get out of this situation, the principles of a religious life must be read out and structured as ignoring any principle may have considerable qualitative and ...

In the Psychiatric Hospital "Vrapce" an investigation on a 200 patient sample was carried out in the year 2000. The purpose of the investigation was to analyze the examinees' experiences of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and religious support. 35.5% of the examinees had had previous experiences of CAM and religious support. The examinees born in towns used CAM methods and religiou...

purpose: religious beliefs of the distant past, had a major role in the establishment and development of human settlements. in order to earn religious tourism and the preservation of cultural heritage is taken into consideration. this paper attempts to influence of presence of religious tourists on the development of rural settlements must be examined from the perspective of the villagers. meth...

the purpose of this article was to study, from a sociological point of view, the factors affecting commitment of shiraz high school students to religious values. the study was carried out within the theoretical framework of weber, parsons, inghart and mead. the data was collected through a questionnaire from a sample of 380 high school students in shiraz in the academic year 2001-2002. independ...

Religious economies theory, which views religious organizations as akin to single-unit firms competing for adherents in local markets, has three shortcomings that we solve by reconceptualizing religious organizations and developing a new theory of religious mobilization. First, we treat religious organizations as multi-unit entities operating in interdependent markets in a national field. Secon...