Faithful Strategies: How Religion Shapes Nonprofit Management

Conceptualizing "religion": How language shapes and constrains knowledge in the study of religion and health.

Despite recent advances in the field of religion and health, meaningful findings will increasingly depend on the capacity to conceptualize "religion" properly. To date, scientists' conception of religion has been shaped by the Enlightenment paradigm. However, recent developments in philosophy make the "objectivity" of the Enlightenment paradigm problematic, if not untenable. Contrary to common ...

CSP++: How Faithful to CSPm?

CSP++ is a tool that makes specifications written in CSPm executable and extensible. It is the basis for a technique called selective formalism, which allows part of a system to be designed in verifiable CSPm statements, automatically translated into C++, and linked with functions coded in C++. This paper describes in detail the subset of CSPm that can be accurately translated by CSP++, and how...

Cultural context shapes essentialist beliefs about religion.

The present study investigates the processes by which essentialist beliefs about religious categories develop. Children (ages 5 and 10) and adults (n = 350) from 2 religious groups (Jewish and Christian), with a range of levels of religiosity, completed switched-at-birth tasks in which they were told that a baby had been born to parents of 1 religion but raised by parents of another religion. R...

Faithful Representation of Similarities among 3d Shapes in Human Vision

The human visual system possesses an impressive ability to remember and recognize complex three-dimensional shapes. The nature of the internal representations that underlie this ability, and the degree to which they mirror geometrical reality, are controversial 1, 2, 3]. According to some theories, the computational basis for shape representation is faithful encoding of structural 4] or metric ...

Financing strategies for nonprofit hospital systems.