Abstract This study aimed to develop a model that explains personal attitudes toward religious groups and the role of parental heterogamy homogamy. The sample included 32,595 participants from 26 countries around world was obtained International Social Survey Programme. Participants whose parents were religiously homogamous presented higher well-being, better health perception, religiosity than...

The relationship between religiosity and educational attainment is an important question in the sociology of religion literature. It is widely contested whether the natural outgrowth of the spreading rational worldview and the increase of educated people can account for the decline of religious adherence. Is there any other explanation for the different opportunities of religious and non-religi...

stress is one of the main neuroscientific issues of our time. however, we have little knowledge of the neurological processes of stress. during the past decade studies have shown that in addition to the genetic factors, stress palys a major role in mental and psychosomatic diseases. severe, chronic and uncontrolled stresses cause some changes in monoaminergic system, and through neural peptides...

OBJECTIVE To explore the Bogor public's perspective on Muslim organisations' pronouncements against smoking and the effect of these pronouncements on compliance with a new smoke-free law in the context of a prosmoking social norm. DESIGN Semistructured focus group discussions were conducted, transcribed, coded using ATLAS.ti software, and analysed using thematic content analysis. Photo elicit...

This paper presents an economic analysis of the intergenerational transmission of ethnic and religious traits through family socialization and marital segregation decisions. Frequency of intragroup marriage (homogamy), as well as socialization rates of religious and ethnic groups, depend on the group’s share of the population: minority groups search more intensely for homogamous mates, and spen...

In this paper we emphasize the specific role that religious groups have in supplying social contacts and collective activities. For short, we call these services “friendship services”. We focus on religious groups in which there are individuals who could be labelled as entrepreneurs in the religious market, that is, individuals who incur some costs in return for compensation, like tithes, that ...

BACKGROUND In-depth understanding of cultural and religious factors limiting organ donation of three ethnic populations (Malay, Chinese, and Indian) in Southeast Asia is lacking. Identification of factors limiting organ donation among these three ethnic groups will provide insights into culturally appropriate strategies to promote acceptance of organ donation in a multiethnic Asian community. ...

Immigrants and Religion Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant’s re...

Background Depressive patients can derive consolation as well as struggle from their religion. Outside the Western-Christian cultures these phenomena have not received much empirical exploration. The current study aims to describe how positive and negative religious coping strategies relate to depressive symptoms in different ethnic groups in The Netherlands. Methods Interview data were derived...

Sociologists know surprisingly little about the religious lives of adolescents in the United States. This article begins to redress that unfortunate lack of knowledge by examining descriptive findings on adolescent religious participation from three recent, reputable national surveys of American youth. We present descriptive statistics on three fundamental aspects of youth religious participati...