INTRODUCTION Shared use of recreational facilities is a promising strategy for increasing access to places for physical activity. Little is known about shared use in faith-based settings. This study examined shared use practices and barriers in faith communities in North Carolina. METHODS Faith communities in North Carolina (n = 234) completed an online survey (October-December 2013) designed...

ALTHOUGH Part I of this article, in the previous issue, focused on the Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago, 1993) as a major inter-faith event, "faith" can usefully be understood in a broader sense than in relation to religion. Dialogue is a challenge in many arenas where the entrenched "beliefs", "faiths" or "religions" may correspond to political or ideological factions, philosophies...

Literature morality relation has remained a point of vital critical debate since the ancient civilization. In the twentieth Century this question has continued ton inspire critical debate despite phenomenal decline in religious and moral aspect of life. But literature and morality relationship is complex and oscillates between complete interdependence to dissociation of such a relation. The stu...

Faith, as the key element of the mass psyche, manifests itself in the public mind and the collective unconscious. Systematization of the diverse phenomenology of faith, the distinction of its scope, forms and kinds allows us diagnose its nonadaptive variants and develop the specifi c principles and methods of correction and therapy. Rational understanding of the typology of faith allows develop...

good faith is a flexible and subjective phrase. it is used in a variety of contexts and its meaning varies in these contexts. in ownership, possession in good faith means possession of property by a person who in good faith does not know that the property's ownership is disputed. possessor believes actually and reasonably himself or herself to be the lawful occupant, otherwise he is in bad...

This prospective study replicated the findings in an earlier survey with a sample of patients from a Middlewest cardiac center. Same medical outcomes and some similar faith factors and controls, as well as a new faith factor, sense of reverence in secular contexts, were examined. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 177 patients (age 65+) two weeks before heart surgery. Medical variables...

the issue of relation, particularly that of human relation to god stands for one of the most significant concerns by all men of faith. to realize such a relation martin buber and rumi, two globally acclaimed thinkers, have appropriated independent existences for both god and man to make them eligible for having a relation to each other, and they have brought this relationship to the fore in the...

whenever we are discussing the nature of faith, we often have a classification based on the object of faith. accordingly, faith is generally either propositional or non-propositional. it means that if faith belongs to one or several propositions, its nature is also propositional and a kind of knowledge. but if the object of faith is a real thing or person, the nature of faith is related to such...

THE doctrine of Scripture is one of perennial interest to evangelical people, and most properly so, since it is to Scripture alone that they look for the rule of faith and life. Experience suggests, indeed, that some who pub'ish their thoughts on this subject-and not least in THE EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY-take their lives in their hands when they do so. But we are happy to publish this study by Pro...