Many religious people deny any conflict between religion and science, but nevertheless report less trust in science than non-religious people. We addr... [more]
As an indirect response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn's Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? this article aims to explicate what 'c... [more]
Burning incense to worship Gods and ancestors is a traditional practice prevalent in Asian societies. This work investigated indoor PM10 concentrations resulting from incense burning in household environments under two conditions: closed and ventilated. T
Objective: To explore Muslim women's views of neonatal end-of-life-care in Sweden. Methods: Interviews using a standardized questionnaire with open-ended questions about care before birth, directly after birth, and during and after the death of the infan
In this essay I explore the heuristic value of the concept of ethics of complexity, chaos, and contingency by applying its framework analysis of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Everyday human moral choices are outcomes of a moral impulse, and such an impulse is gr
Purpose: To examine the association of dating violence with personal and social contextual factors among a sample of 12- to 17-year-olds enrolled in managed care health plans Methods: A sample of 444 youth (45% male; 80% African-American; 38% aged 12-13 y
At a small, independently owned cigar shop in a moderate-sized southern city, approximately thirty customers regularly gather at what has become a de facto men's smoking club to discuss sports, politics, religion, and the joys of cigar smoking. Of all th
The deists have commonly been characterized as irreligious thinkers who believed in a distant and inactive deity. This characterization of deism is undermined by the large number of French Revolutionary deists who believed that God worked miracles. Some F
This article is a contribution to the new Latin American readings of Mari & aacute;tegui and, in particular, aims to vindicate the << heterodox >> character of the Marxism of the Peruvian thinker tracing some of its fundamental theoretical and vital roots
This study aims to analyze the impact of Consumer Cultural Identity on the fashion preferences and buying patterns of hijab wearers. A mixed-method approach to gather data on the fashion consumption habits of young citizen women who wear hijabs. The study
Shortly after the start of colonial rule in Northern Nigeria, a series of scandals over flogging brought international attention. A network of newspapers reported on flogging cases, particularly those involving women and educated, often Christian, African
David Winston distinguishes two types of Mosaic prophecy in Philo's De vita Mosis, noetic and ecstatic. Noetic prophecy, which corresponds to Moses's delivery of the special laws, is active and rational. Ecstatic prophecy, which corresponds to Moses's
This study aimed to identify factors contributing to anxiety at induction of anaesthesia in children. One hundred and twenty children aged five to twelve years and scheduled for surgery requiting general anaesthesia were included. Children were interviewe
We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously use
Part of the image of Mexican Americans is that they lack trust in institutions. The truth of this image was investigated by comparing responses of 324 female and 286 male Mexican Americans and 9,216 female and 7,782 male non-Hispanic Whites to items about
Using a novel method, the paper investigates the influence of social group identities on attitudes and on voting in a variety of political contexts. Examining the major regions of Britain, Canada and the USA, we find considerable national and regional div
The 'greying' of populations - the demographic shift in which general populations are 'ageing older' - has raised concerns over the future needs of tomorrow's elderly population and contributed to changes in the public persona of elderly people. Trad