since the ancient times, burial practices have displayed certain characteristics among different iranian ethnic groups and regions were influenced by the local religious orientations, traditions and environments, and are regarded as part of the spiritual culture of any given population. indeed, religious beliefs play the main role in this diversity. because of the empire’s long endurance and va...

Why do we need some more questionnaires to measure aspects of spirituality/religiosity when we already have so many well-tried instruments in use? One answer is that research in this field is growing and that new research questions continuously do arise. Several of these new questions cannot be easily answered with the instruments designed for previous questions. The field is expanding and, con...

This is a review of the literature on the role of religion in the promotion of health, the prevention of violence and the rehabilitation of individuals involved in criminal activities. Research was conducted in the Medline through PubMed, Lilacs, Scopus, Social Index with full text, Sociological abstracts and Social services abstracts databases. Twenty-nine essays in Portuguese, English and Spa...

Abstract Religious controversy in English has always been marked by ideologically charged lexicons. Developments the analysis of machine-readable corpora have enabled more robust conclusions to be drawn about nature these vocabularies, relating particular usages confessional orientations. In this paper, part a long-term research project on history religious vocabulary, an attempt is made identi...

Theory: Two theories about trends in left-right political orientations are juxtaposed: the persistence theory claiming that left-right orientations are highly resistant to change versus the irrelevance theory anticipating a move of mass publics towards the center of the left-right continuum. Hypotheses: The left-right ideological differences between the Dutch political parties have declined sin...

The Malay World has been home to a range of social formations, from nomadic hunter-gatherers on land and sea, through (semi-)sedentary swiddeners forest traders, state-incorporated peasants aristocrats. In their religious secular musics, these populations display differing performance manners organisation that reflect distinctive socio-cultural orientations. musics serve embed those orientation...