Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion ...

this paper aims to show the impact of fear of god, as one of the most important signs of religious spirituality, on improving sexual and gender relationships in family and society as well as other social relationships and thus to offer some procedures for enhancing and expanding this character at familial and societal levels in order to reduce the problems involved in social relations specially...

Bu araştırmada Türkiye’de geniş kitlelerin beslendiği dini bilgi kaynaklarının başında gelen popüler kitaplardan hareketle nasıl bir din anlayışının gelişmekte olduğunun anlaşılması amaçlanmıştır. anlama sürecinde toplum katmanlarında ne türden bilgilerin dolaşımda olduğuna odaklanılmıştır. amaçla bilginin yayılım mecrası olarak kabul edilen ve kitapçılığın yıllardır devam edegeldiği birer merk...

Terrence D. Hill, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the social distribution of health and health-relevant behaviors. Michael E. McCullough, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. His research is currently concentrated in three areas: forgiveness and revenge, gratitude, and religion and spirituality. Religio...

there have been a lot of arguments about body in pre-modern literature in different disciplines such as christian religious and theological debates. such debates argue that body is considered as a negative element with the potentiality of committing sin and preventing the elevation of spirit. these arguments are followed by western philosophy of mind/ body paradox, which is itself followed by o...

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Religiosity has long been known to promote volunteering in the US and elsewhere. Despite the growing body of research examining religious correlates of volunteering, however, few studies have focused on whether and how religious attitudes affect volunteering. With data from the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II), 2004–2006, we examine the influences of religious attitudes, name...

Although religiosity tends to help older people to cope with physical and social losses, not all studies find a significant association between religious involvement and well-being in old age. It might be that primarily the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic aspect of religiosity is responsible for the positive effect of religiosity on well-being. Using a sample of 103 community dwelling older...