"Soul surfers" consider surfing to be a profoundly meaningful practice that brings physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. They generally agree on where surfing initially developed, that it assumed a religious character, was suppressed for religious reasons, has been undergoing a revival, and enjoins reverence for and protection of nature. This subset of the global surfing community sh...

In two studies undergraduates' understanding of extraordinary capabilities was investigated using religious and secular contexts. Six stories assessed participants’ endorsement of anthropomorphic language to describe attention, physical power, perception, and presence of three agents: God, a human, and Qwore, an agent with the same powers as God. Participants attributed human-like limitations t...

Objectives: The present research is aimed at surveying the role of (internal and external) religious orientation in the mental health and the extent of depression in elderly people residing in welfare centers and the society. Methods: The study has been conducted through post-event and correlation method by using stochastic and cluster sampling in 230 cases of elderly people at senior citize...

Although religion and religiosity arewell-known factors for influencing behaviour in different social settings, there is very limited research that explores the links between them and visitation patterns of tourists. In this study tourists’ visitation patterns to a heritage site of religious significance (the Wailing Wall, Israel) are explored. Differences are found between tourists based on th...

After the reform era, Indonesia was once known as a tolerant country that able to combine religion and democracy. However, in last five years, this image has begun be doubted line with increasing complexity of diversity conflicts have arisen. adopts mono-religious approach setting religious education, but some institutions adopt an inter-religious model. This article compares views on freedom o...

Educational achievement is positively correlated with religious devotion. However, those religious sects which are more devoted have, on average, lower levels of education. Evangelical Protestants, for example, have the highest level of religious devotion but the lowest level of educational achievement. Previous research explains this by proposing that education enhances the gains to social int...

background: religious belief is one of the most important factors in people’s life that can affect their mental health. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious belief and mental health among high school students in dargaz city, khorasan razavi province, iran, 2010-2011. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 157 high school students selected by ...