ANTINOMICITY OF RELIGIOUS TRADITION

The Buddhist Tradition Religious Beliefs and Healthcare Decisions by Paul

Buddhism originated as a movement of spiritual renunciants who followed Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Shakya people in northern India around 500 B.C.E. (before the common era, often designated B.C.). Legend recounts that after Siddhartha confronted the realities of old age, illness, and death, he renounced his privileged social position to seek spiritual salvation. Through years spent stu...

Challenging Tradition in Religious Textiles: The Mata Ni Pachedi of India

Catholic Studies and Religious Studies : Reflections on the Concept of Tradition

Positioning Catholic Studies within religious studies highlights the question of "what is a tradition?" and simultaneously allows us to do three things: elaborate a non-essentialist second order understanding of the concept of tradition appropriate to Religious Studies, study Catholicism as a tradition that has been created and maintained through first order reflection on the meaning of traditi...

Interactive Effects of Church Attendance and Religious Tradition on Depressive Symptoms and Positive Affect

Using a survey of adults in Nebraska, we find that the association between church attendance and mental health varies across religious traditions and across two distinct dimensions of mental health—depressive symptoms and positive affect. Specifically, the association between church attendance and depressive symptoms differs for mainline Protestants, evangelical Protestants, and Catholics. Of t...

Does God make it real? Children's belief in religious stories from the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Four- to 6-year-old children (N = 131) heard religious or nonreligious stories and were questioned about their belief in the reality of the story characters and events. Children had low to moderate levels of belief in the characters and events. Children in the religious story condition had higher levels of belief in the reality of the characters and events than did children in the nonreligious ...