Correction to: Rigid Religious Faith Promotes Selective Exposure to Attitude-Congruent Political Information

Selective Exposure to Attitude-Consistent and Counterattitudinal Political Information

How Corrosive Is College to Religious Faith and Practice?

While Americans remain among the most religious in the industrialized world, it is widely observed that many of them exhibit cycles of religiosity, the most evident of which occurs in early adulthood. The young adult years of many Americans are marked by a clear decline in outward religious expression, which is widely thought to hit bottom during—and perhaps because of—the college experience. D...

Threat, Authoritarianism, and Selective Exposure to Information

We examined the hypothesis that threat alters the cognitive strategies used by high authoritarians in seeking out new political information from the environment. In a laboratory experiment, threat was manipulated through a “mortality salience” manipulation used in research on terror management theory (Pyszczynski, Solomon, & Greenberg, 2003). Subjects (N = 92) were then invited to read one of t...

The effect of religious faith on allocating time to action in the way of God

This essay examines the effect of religious faith on the allocation of time for doing deeds in the way of God among the citizens working in free jobs in Zahedan city. The statistical population is the citizens working in free jobs in Zahedan city, and the number of samples was calculated using the Cochran formula of 500 people, the data was collected with a questionnaire. The questionnaire cons...

Religious Faith and Development : Explorations and Experience

Though many institutions making up the international aid system engaged quite episodically with faith institutions in the past, this situation is changing. Change is propelled by the resurgence and greater assertiveness of faith institutions on one side and by more intensive engagement among public and civil society institutions and growing appreciation of the importance of community participat...