Knowledge and Religious Faith

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...

Religious and Scientific Faith in Simplicity *

Both religion and science start with basic assumptions that cannot be proved but are taken on faith. Here I note that one basic assumption that is rather common in both enterprises is the assumption that in comparing different hypotheses that all equally explain the observations, the simpler hypotheses are more probable (Occam's razor or the law of parsimony). That is, explanations should be ma...

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...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire: Assessing Faith Engagement in a Brief and

The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire is a brief (10-item, or five-item short form version), reliable and valid self report measure assessing strength of religious faith and engagement suitable for use with multiple religious traditions, denominations, and perspectives. It has been used in medical, student, psychiatric, substance abuse, and among general populations national...