background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

the main purpose of this essay is the recognition of the status and role of the orthodox church in russia’s ruling system from 1917-2010; therefore, the question that is put forth in this research is: what correlation existed between the orthodox church and russia’s ruling system? in order to respond to this question, a major hypothesis is highlighted: the government and the orthodox church hav...

This study explores the relationship between church-based informal social support and lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation and attempts within a representative national sample of African American and Black Caribbean adults. Characteristics of church-based social support networks, as well as emotional support and negative interaction with church members were examined in relation to lifetime s...

[The discussions between Joseph Ratzinger and Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal Church and the local/ particular churches touch on one of today’s major theological and pastoral issues. If the universal Church is ontologically and temporally prior to the local church, then how is the local church fully Church, and how are bishops truly vicars of Christ and not simply delega...

In 1978, Klop demonstrated that a rewrite system constructed by adding the untyped lambda calculus, which has the Church-Rosser property, to a Church-Rosser rst-order algebraic rewrite system may not be Church-Rosser. In contrast, Breazu-Tannen recently showed that augmenting any Church-Rosser rst-order algebraic rewrite system with the simply-typed lambda calculus results in a Church-Rosser re...

Prior to the mid-1780s, the religious community called the Episcopal Church in the United States or the Protestant Episcopal Church was known as the Church of England. Following the war for independence, however, Anglican leaders in the new nation reorganized this religious body, and the Protestant Episcopal Church became the selfgoverning American branch of the Anglican communion. The preface ...

In 1978, Klop demonstrated that a rewrite system constructed by adding the untyped lambda calculus, which has the Church-Rosser property, to a Church-Rosser rst-order algebraic rewrite system may not be Church-Rosser. In contrast, Breazu-Tannen recently showed that augmenting any Church-Rosser rst-order algebraic rewrite system with the simply-typed lambda calculus results in a Church-Rosser re...

the history of hospital construction is primarily divided into pre-islamic and isalmic periods; the latter also witnessed the emergence of european and american hospitals after the arrival of western medicine in iran. kerman morsalin hospital, belonging to church mission society hospitals, is an example of such hospitals built under the supervision of british doctors in iran. this hospital, lis...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a worldwide Christian church with more than 14.4 million members and 28,784 congregations. With headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), the Church operates three universities, a business college, 136 temples, and thousands of seminaries and institutes of religion around the world that enroll more than 700,000 students in religious training....