Objective The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between religiosity, depression and pain in advanced cancer patients admitted in hospice. Methods 115 patients with a life expectancy of less than 4 months were interviewed with a series of standardized instruments, including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and religious data wer...

Our 2005 representative national survey (2,972 interviews) shows an overwhelmingly common and strong religious intolerance towards Western churches that are legally deemed “non-traditional” and are commonly perceived as foreign to Russia. Most Russians would not let Western groups build churches, establish religious schools, or engage in other basic religious activities in their hometowns. West...

Man is not only an animal that eats, dresses, and lives, but also with religious knowledge. Only man, unlike animals, has discovered a superhuman power to protect himself from threatening evil obtain what he desires. How the ancient people came think about religion unending debate among anthropologists realists. He mentions scholars like "Periluite" others "Thurkiyam" fear appeared in reason fo...

Interestingly, the same group has recently published an 17 pirituality is understood to be a “personal search to undertand final questions about life, itsmeaning, its relationship to acredness or transcendence that may or may not lead to the evelopment of religious practices or formation of religious ommunities”. In contrast, religiousness is the “extension o which an individual believes, follo...

We examined health-related quality of life in adults in the Louisiana Health Aging Study (LHAS) after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (HK/R) that made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast region in 2005. Analyses of pre- and post-disaster SF-36 scores yielded changes in physical function and bodily pain. Mental health scores were lower for women than men. Gender differences were observed in religious be...

BACKGROUND Few studies have reported the factors associated with intention to quit smoking among Korean adult smokers. This study aimed to examine sociodemographic characteristics, smoking-related beliefs, and smoking-restriction variables associated with intention to quit smoking among Korean adult smokers. METHODS We used data from the International Tobacco Control Korea Survey, which was c...

Scientific interest in the cognitive underpinnings of religious belief has grown in recent years. However, to date, little experimental research has focused on the cognitive processes that may promote religious disbelief. The present studies apply a dual-process model of cognitive processing to this problem, testing the hypothesis that analytic processing promotes religious disbelief. Individua...