Academic departments of psychiatry have three missions—training psychiatrists and other clinicians, advancing scientific knowledge, and providing state-of-the-art patient care—and, together, these serve as the basis for the profession’s overarching goal: to ease the suffering of those afflicted with psychiatric illnesses. To fulfill these missions departments of psychiatry must have effective a...

Abstract The study tries to evaluate the development of Hare Krishna Movement ( ISKCON ) in Czech Republic. It points out that after a period great openness and emergence non-traditional religious groups Velvet Revolution 1989, spread this movement gradually stagnated. After “anti-cult” attacks, did become part standard scene, although its attractiveness decreased. Based on two models (the mode...

As for most of its Caribbean neighbours, Trinidad and Tobago's leading cause of maternal morbidity is unsafe abortion. Yet activism to introduce public policy and legislation that effectively address this aspect of women's reproductive rights and health has been met with public outcry. With almost hysterical opposition coming from certain religious quarters, there is the unsubstantiated impress...

The twenty-first century is often characterized as an era of unprecedented mobility and interconnectivity, but it is also marked by efforts to reinforce national borders and curtail human movement. Paradoxes of mobility and immobility in our increasingly unequal world come into sharp focus when viewed through the lens of religion. Sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of comparative relig...

This paper investigates the impact of increased education, due to an exogenous education reform, on time spent in religious activities by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. The reform significantly rises individuals’ years schooling. We also document that for women, has a negative causal allocation activities. However, there are no significant effects men’s As result, we suggest plays impo...