CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES

Religious practices, beliefs, and mental health: variations across ethnicity.

OBJECTIVES We examined whether Black Americans and Hispanic Americans experienced greater mental health benefits from religious involvement than White Americans, and whether these benefits would be mediated through three psychosocial factors--social support, meaning, and forgiveness. METHODS Utilizing data from a probability sample of Chicago-based adults (n=3103), ethnicity-stratified multiv...

Religious beliefs and practices in acute mental health patients.

BACKGROUND Holistic practice involves caring for the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients. Spiritual assessment is an important part of the patient's overall assessment. Religion is a component of spirituality and is supported by a recognisable formal system of beliefs. Religious beliefs might help patients in their search for meaning in life, especially in difficult ...

Holy headache. Accommodating employees' religious beliefs and practices.

How much accommodation does your practice have to make for employees' religious beliefs? Recent court decisions offer guidance.

Religious Beliefs, Religious Participation and Cooperation

The paper analyzes the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation and social cooperation. In particular, we focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, analyze their e¤ect on social interactions in society and identify a "spiritual" as well as a "materi...

Paranormal beliefs, religious beliefs and personality correlates