According to the Religious Openness Hypothesis, the religious and psychological openness of American Christians is obscured by a defensive ghettoization of thought associated with a Religious Fundamentalist Ideological Surround and can be discovered instead within a Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surround. A test of this claim examined Religious Fundamentalism, Biblical Foundationalism, Q...

background: one of the most common mental health problems among women with infertility problems is depression. research has shown that religious beliefs and practices can help people to cope with difficult situations. the purpose of this study was to explore the role of different religious coping strategies in predicting depression in a group of infertile women in shiraz. methods: a total of 72...

David Cook is a Professor of religion in the Department Religious Studies at Rice University, specializing Islam. He completed his undergraduate degree Hebrew University Jerusalem 1994. later received M.A. 1998 and Ph.D. with study titled “The Beginnings Islam Syria during Umayyad Period”, which he prepared under supervision Fred Donner, Walter Kaegi, Patricia Crone from Chicago (Department Nea...

Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. To test this hypothesis we design field experiments to measure the in-group cooperative behavior of members of religious and secular Israeli kib...

Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a formal model of religious competition, I show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious activity in an open religious market, and that it has little effect in a religious market that is already secularized due to regulations that prohibit religious competition or in a highl...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To examine the longitudinal associations between 3 dimensions of religious involvement-religious attendance, use of religious media, and private religious activities-and 3 domains of functional status-limitations in basic activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and mobility in older adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Using the data from a...

Prior research has found that persons who favor more analytic modes of thought are less religious. We propose that individual differences in analytic thought are associated with reduced religious beliefs particularly when analytic thought is measured (hence, primed) first. The current study provides a direct replication of prior evidence that individual differences in analytic thinking are nega...

neurotheology is a modern field that seek to justify religious experiences. neurotheology consist of to main fields: neuroscience and theology. this two fields mixed together and became new field. in contrast, other sientists opposed with neurothology and it's issues. they utilize neuroscience and prove that religious experiences are false and fiction. here at first we describe neurotheolo...

BACKGROUND Studies on ethnic variations in health have played an important role in aetiological and health services research. Most routine datasets, however, do not include information on ethnicity. South Asians, one of the largest minority ethnic groups in Britain, have distinctive names that also allow differentiation of the main sub-groups with their important differences in health-related e...