Recent attention from media, scholars, and religious leadership has focused on the dating activities of college students, particularly in relation to casual physical encounters or what some have termed “hooking up.” In this article, we examine the impact of both individual and institutional religious involvement on “hooking up” in a national sample of college women (N = 1,000). The results of o...

This paper explores the relationship between religion and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), with particular interest in religion’s possible influence in the development of OCD and its impact on treatment outcome. The paper begins with a review of theoretical and research literatures concerning religious involvement, research evidence linking religious involvement and physical and mental heal...

purpose: this study aimed to assess the relationship between religious orientation (internal / external) of library users and their tendency to safekeeping and protect the information resources and heeding library rules. method: the research method was survey and the data gathered using the alport questionnaire of religious orientation and a questionnaire for assessing the tendency of the users...

This study aimed to determine how important religious education is in Nigerian schools, especially tertiary institutions the Delta State of Nigeria. To reach this goal, eleven colleges and universities were chosen for research. Research questions hypotheses formulated guide study. The data was collected from primary sources using a structured questionnaire. Twenty-two questionnaires administere...

Men are typically stronger, riskier, “showier,” and more impulsive than women. According to sexual selection theory, such behaviors may have enhanced reproductive fitness for ancestral human males. However, such behaviors are facultative, and the mechanisms that cause them respond to social and environmental cues that indicate whether outlays of strength, risk-taking, showing off, or impulsivit...

at the crux of the evolution of nato’s new missions and partnerships over the past two decade has been the question of how to deal with the russian federation. this remains the key question today. therefore, this article examines the options nato and russia face in developing a new nato-russia institutional framework. the article begins with a brief outline of enlargement of nato towards east a...