Recent evidence indicates that priming participants with religious concepts promotes prosocial sharing behaviour. In the present study, we investigated whether religious priming also promotes the costly punishment of unfair behaviour. A total of 304 participants played a punishment game. Before the punishment stage began, participants were subliminally primed with religion primes, secular punis...

Many countries embroiled in non-religious civil conflicts have experienced a dramatic increase religious competition recent years. This study examines whether increasing between religions affects violence or secular conflicts. The focuses on Colombia, deeply Catholic country that has suffered one of the world’s longest-running internal and, last few decades, witnessed an intense Church and new ...

classification of the sciences has always been an essential part of the islamic scientific thought. this was due to the significant role of science in the islamic culture and as well as the development of various scientific traditions in this civilization.philosophy of science, today, discusses the classification of sciences in which methods, subject matters, and goals of the science are studie...

Critical Review of the Current Approaches to Spiritual Education for Children with an Emphasis on Islamic Teachings M. Kiyaani M. Mehrmohammadi, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D. M. Nozari, Ph.D. A historical review of spiritual education for children reveals three main outlooks on the relationship between religion and spirituality upon which approaches to spiritua...

Albeit overtly secular, Zionist ideology was inspired by religious thought. While traditional religions often supported the nationalist cause, the relationship of Judaism and Zionism is vastly different. Adepts of traditional Judaism immediately rejected Zionism, and this rejectionist attitude has not vanished to this day. On the other hand, Christian, mainly Protestant theologians had develope...

Since 9/11, and even more so with the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, violence in the name of God is predominantly perceived as a “different” kind of violence, which triggers more “absolute” and radical manifestations than its secular counter parts. In its first part, this article will challenge this so called exceptionalism of religious violence by questioning the neat divide b...

This paper estimates the correlation between the generosity of parents and the generosity of their adult children using regression models of adult children's charitable giving. New charitable giving data are collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and used to estimate the regression models. The regression models are estimated using a wide variety of techniques and specification tests, a...