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]
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
Objective To assess the influence of spiritual well-being in mental health of college students. Methods It was interviewed 464 medical and law students of Pelotas, Brazil. Data collection was carried out in groups in the school classroom, 43 absent studen
Interest in faith-based approaches to dealing with social problems appears to be increasing, as seen in the recent bipartisan charitable choice legislation, which is designed to remove barriers that prohibit faith-based providers from applying tor governm
This study examines whether employment status has an effect on a person's decision to volunteer and the number of hours volunteered The data are from the 1993 Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. Demographic and socioeconomic cha
Objectives: To investigate the views and experiences of British pharmacists in physician-assisted suicide ( PAS) and voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) and to examine whether differences in views were associated with personal characteristics. Method: A pos
Background. It is rare to find anything written about hearing loss or its treatment in either representative art or in a medical-historical context in ear, nose and throat journals. Methods. Examples dating back over the past 4000 years found in medical-h
This article examines the categories and concepts through which the Tibetan social world has been represented, prior to and during the Mao era (1949-1976). The categories typical of the pre-Communist Tibetan polity are first described, with emphasis on th
This article analysed the eating behaviour and the psychological discomfort in a sample of 44 religious women living in open communities. The Eating Attitudes Test-40 items, the Interview for the Diagnosis of Eating Disorders, the Bulimic Investigatory Te
For Americans in the new Millennium, there is a revival of interest in spiritual matters. Simultaneously, attention to spirituality in the social work profession is a cutting edge theme. Social work has a holistic focus on person-in-environment, acknowled
British attitudes towards homosexuality have changed with astonishing rapidity over recent decades. Society has managed to assimilate these shifts with relative ease. The Christian churches, however, as repositories of tradition and defenders of inherited
A Buddhist temple in Berkeley, Wollongong, may at first appear puzzling given that few Buddhists lived there. Indeed, the suburb was home to predominantly those Anglo-Celtic Australians most marginalised by the structural changes to the city's economic b
Although it has been suggested that parents of sons are less likely than parents of daughters to divorce, few studies have explored this relationship in societies characterized by a strong preference for sons, where such an effect should be most pronounce
This qualitative study was conducted using focus groups to explore the strategies commonly employed by older adults (N = 3 7) to manage multiple chronic conditions. Key strategies identified were relating with health care providers, medicating, exercising
How did Jung become deeply concerned with Asian religions and particularly with the Tibetan Buddhism of a Welshman from Trenton, New Jersey? Could that man be considered one of Jung's gurus? This essay begins six years after Jung, at twenty, was admitted
In this essay I address three ways in which Edwards can inform Christian understanding of public life. First I show how Edwards provides both philosophical and theological rationales for social engagement and thereby resists the separation of religion fro