This article examines the problem of legal relationship state to religion, religious organizations and believers on basis theoretical results domestic foreign scientific research. An analysis formation development modern materials freedom conscience in sociolegal literature is presented. Protestantism laid foundation for idea conscience, i.e., individual context human rights. Avtorami suggests ...

Religious freedom has been established as a fundamental right in the United States of America (U.S.A.). Thomas Jefferson’s famous ‘wall separation’ metaphor taken religious under protection against possible oppression by state, building high wall between church and state. legal basis human defining boundaries state relations. James Madison also, author U.S. Constitution, attributes special impo...

Recent functional neuroimaging data, acquired in studies of religious experience, have been used to explain and justify religion and its origins. In this paper, we critique the move from describing brain activity associated with self-reported religious states, to explaining why there is religion at all. Toward that end, first we review recent neuroimaging findings on religious experience, and s...

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

Religion and spirituality exert a significant role in the lives of many individuals, including people with schizophrenia. However, the contribution of religion and spirituality to various domains (psychopathology, explanatory models, treatment seeking, treatment adherence, outcome, etc.) has not received much attention. In this article, we review the exiting data with regards to the relationshi...