In spite of the generally large interest in demography of religious communities and the relation between population dynamics and various aspects of socio-economic life (for example economic development and social inequalities), there has until now not been any attempt to collect and estimate religious composition by age and sex as well as differences in fertility for all countries in the world....

to praise and worship the god is an essential part of abrahamic religions (e.g., judaism, christianity, and islam); but in islam, this religious practice, in form of praying (salat) is a cornerstone of muslims everyday life. in spite of religious importance of praying and the emphasize of islamic jurisprudence (fiqhe) on it, in real sphere of muslims life, especially in iran as a islamic countr...

The present study aims to study the sociological factors affecting the lifestyle of the youth. This research is a survey research in terms of control of the research conditions, and because it's done at a given time is a cross-sectional study. The statistical population of the study consisted of all young boys between 15 to 29 in Khalkhal who were 7149 persons according to the population and Ho...

this paper is referred to a community of influential and rather elite intellectuals who are influenced by the heideggerian approach in their understanding of iran’s position in the world and its history since the 1950s. the reference is equally to a much larger group of iranian intellectuals in post-revolutionary iran, some embrace heideggerian thoughts from a religious perspective, and others ...

spirituality is one of the dimensions of human health. religious spiritual characteristics including forgiveness, hope, transcendence, immanent and sense of integration to surroundings can cause better adjustment and more health and welfare in the life. there is a near relationship between culture and psychology. the aim of the present research was to study cross-cultural aspects of religious s...

Although small group research has been somewhat marginalized within sociology during the past decades, the authors argue that a focus on interaction arenas can contribute to a more complete analysis of social life. Specifically the authors examine three central domains of sociological analysis—culture, organizations, and the economy—to demonstrate how a focus on the mesolevel of analysis allows...

Abstract The religiosity of academics has been studied for over a decade. With few exceptions, this research conducted on American “elite” scientists, and data from non-Western countries is lacking. Drawing psychological sociological literature, the present exploratory study investigates Turkish (N = 361) their perceptions relationship between religion science, associated variables such as inte...

background: available evidence shows that religious attitudes have noticeable effects on all aspects of human life. the purpose of this study was to evaluate religious attitude of freshmen at school of health, isfahan university of medical sciences (isfahan, iran). methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study in 2010, religious attitude of 200 students was assessed by a reliable and valid r...