I n t r o d u c t i o n In the last decade, fatherhood has been the object of increased public and scholarly concern (Marsiglio 1991; Gerson 1993; Popenoe 1996). Most of the recent attention devoted to fathers has focused on "new" fathers who are more involved with childcare as well as egalitarian in their gender role attitudes (Lamb 1987; Pleck 1987; LaRossa 1988) or on "bad" fathers who have ...

Previous scholarship has often employed the categories of ‘voluntary’ and ‘established’ religion when studying lay involvement in parish religion; yet these do not provide adequate space for vitality religious initiatives during English Reformation. Through a study singing metrical psalms, this article argues that ‘inspiration’ ‘institution’ more nuanced understanding It outlines ways which tak...

This article examines traditional and modern psychological characterizations of religiousness and spirituality. Three ways in which religiousness and spirituality are polarized by contemporary theorists are examined: organized religion versus personal spirituality; substantive religion versus functional spirituality; and negative religiousness versus positive spirituality. An alternative approa...

called tasamuh to anyone who has a different religion or belief, because differences are not something be debated negative way that creates friction between groups individuals. the urgency of tolerance can benchmark for seeing problems occur in society reviewing existing polemics so religious, civilizational, and cultural Indonesia seen, created, maintained. The method used this study is descri...

Recent functional neuroimaging data, acquired in studies of religious experience, have been used to explain and justify religion and its origins. In this paper, we critique the move from describing brain activity associated with self-reported religious states, to explaining why there is religion at all. Toward that end, first we review recent neuroimaging findings on religious experience, and s...

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

Religion and spirituality exert a significant role in the lives of many individuals, including people with schizophrenia. However, the contribution of religion and spirituality to various domains (psychopathology, explanatory models, treatment seeking, treatment adherence, outcome, etc.) has not received much attention. In this article, we review the exiting data with regards to the relationshi...

After long neglect, the subject of religion has received growing attention in the economics profession over the past two decades. One of the reasons is that it has proven diffi cult to explain the levels of economic development of many nations around the world without reference to a national culture, and many of these cultures have been signifi cantly infl uenced by religion. Contrary to a wide...

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