Abstract Health researchers often seek to leverage pastoral authority in Black churches forge community partnerships that address racial health disparities the United States. Yet, have not fully recognized range (and limits) of as well complex role religion African American health. Here we explore how and science are engaged Church contexts what plays this process. Drawing on focus groups with ...

This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct economic methods which promise new and different insights. In particular, certain features of the experimental approach as used by economists such as incenti...

Surprisingly little research has examined the widely held assumption that religion and spirituality are generally helpful in adjusting to bereavement. A systematic literature search located 73 empirical articles that examined religion/spirituality in the context of bereavement. The authors describe the multidimensional nature of religion/spirituality and use this framework to organize and integ...

Religion is a ubiquitous aspect of human culture, yet until recently, relatively little was known about its natural origins and effects on human minds and societies. This is changing, as scientifi c interest in religion is on the rise. Debates about the evolutionary origins and functions of religion, including its origins in genetic and cultural evolution, hinge on a set of empirical claims abo...

the kernel of religion and religiousness« is a philosophical and theological issue that emerged in the west during renaissance. two theories of “religious experience” and “philosophia perennis” are very important in this realm. the kernel of religion, on the basis of the former, is an experience that causes the owner of it to be considered as a religious man, and the husk of religion consist of...

rationality and spirituality is a theory follows the spiritualism in west, to fill the spiritual gap made by modernism. the goal of this theory is reduction of human’s pain by collecting between rationality and spirituality, which is engendered by modernism and religion. as modernism based on reason, rationality is fundamental in this theory. spiritualty is application of rationality or is pers...

from the historical and medical point of view, this paper purports to illustrate two motifs of immaculate conception in christian art. the first painting is an altarpiece of unknown author from the 17th or 18th century, known as our lady of conception in the church of st. antony the abbot in the city of rab on the island of the same name in croatia, and the other is a mural from 1490, mary’s an...

peter berger (1929 - ), is among sociologists who has examined religion from sociological and theological perspectives, and has been the source of many impacts on the sociology of religion. berger is the pioneer of the theory of secularization and perhaps the most effective one in this regard; and his ideas is still used by many proponents of secularization. however, the change in his position ...

analysis of the meaningfulness of the language of religion is one of the most important issues concerning the language of religion. despite the multiplicity and variety of viewpoints common in this field, the prevailing common ground in these viewpoints is the implicit acceptance of the positivistic standards of the meaningfulness of language. the existence of basic criticisms to these standard...