Today's society is experiencing an accelerated phenomenon of secularization due to communication through today's media channels. Daily, the global village called Earth transmits billions news, information, cultural and spiritual values beneficial condition contemporary man. We propose analyze on society, but also harmful effects that feels because secularizing informational flow. will show orig...

Purpose The unique dynamics of family firms (FFs) shape the management financial crises. Religious and secular reasons, as a defining characteristic this type firm, provide reference system for key decisions. This paper aims to explore under-researched topic differences in FFs' crisis between religious decision-makers (FDMs), considering secularization developed countries. Design/methodology/ap...

Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people...

The rational choice literature on religion has been noticeably silent on the nature and purpose of religious authority. I first summarize the rational choice theory of authority and offer a rational choice definition of religious authority. A primary insight is that (religious) authority exists to coordinate social action. I then argue that social coordination is a fundamental aspect of religio...

Bioethics initially emerged from theological thinking, as part of the consistent development of the defense of the beliefs of the movement when faced with the challenges of the social progressivism of techno-scientific expansion and the cultural secularization of the West. As a result of this process, liberal social norms and legislation have emerged in many Western nations, including those tha...