The study examines which type of religious knowledge acquired in Religious Education Greek Secondary schools can initiate both personal and collective change understanding appreciation different cultures. It is blended research using participatory action-research with ethnographic elements methodology. gathered qualitative quantitative data through questionnaires, focus groups, journals, the te...

certainly, methodology of political jurisprudence (feghe seyasi) is closely related to “ejtehad”( practicing religious jurisprudence) . so, methodologically, understanding characteristics of political jurisprudence , requires understanding ejtehad. and ejtehad ,in turn, requires understanding the relations of it with “language” and “action” .therefor, understanding the two relations, clears the...

Past research argues that religious commitments shape individuals’ prosocial sentiments, including their generosity and solidarity. But what drives the prosociality of less religious people? Three studies tested the hypothesis that, with fewer religious expectations of prosociality, less religious individuals’ levels of compassion will play a larger role in their prosocial tendencies. In Study ...

Introduction: Major ambiguities remain in our current understanding of the geochemical evolution of the moon. That situation arises partly because (a) our geochemical and isotopic data sets for mare basalts are overly influenced by samples from the Procellarum KREEP Terrain (PKT [1]), and (b) samples of the highland crust useful for isotopic studies are limited in both quantity and quality. Fut...

Researchers have found that religious affiliation, religious attendance, religious beliefs, and prayer are associated with teen sexual attitudes and behavior.(Wallace & Williams, 1997; Whitehead, Wilcox, & Rostosky, 2001) Holding strong religious beliefs and praying are linked to reduced sexual activity among adolescents (Meier, 2003; Resnick et al., 1997) and teens (girls in particular) from m...

Addressing climate change requires coordinated policy responses that incorporate the needs of most impacted populations. Yet even communities are greatly concerned about may remain on sidelines. We examine what stymies some citizens’ mobilization in Kenya, a country with long history environmental activism and high vulnerability to change. foreground efficacy—a belief one’s actions can create c...

This study investigated the effects of religious education on student religious identity over and above parent religiosity by examining student perceptions of two aspects of teacher functioning: teacher caring and teacher as role-model. We posited that effects of these variables on students' religious identity are mediated by student perceptions that the school provides a non-alienating religio...

Goold (1997) has argued that the Porter (1980) five-forces framework for industry analysis is not applicable to nonprofits. In light of recent essays (e.g. Miller, 2002) as well as literature from the world of religious nonprofit organizations and organization theory, the Porter framework is analyzed through a review of representative literature. The religious nonprofit arena was chosen for thi...

Within the last few years the relationship between religiousness and psychosocial adjustment has become a subject of increasing interest. However, previous research did not explicitly differentiate between dispositional religious commitment and situation-specific religious coping. The current cross-sectional study investigated the relative power of religious commitment, positive and negative re...