Religion and obsessionality: obsessive actions and religious practices

The Micro-sociology of Religion: Religious Practices, Collective and Individual

Commentary: Religion, religious attitudes and suicide.

; there is also a higher risk of suicide amongst men with no religious affiliation compared with men with a religious affiliation. These data suggest, whether one believes or not in a particular religious teaching, that religious people do think differently about the meaning of life and tend to be more reluctant to consider suicide (assisted or not) as an option. Secondly, consistent with previ...

RELIGION AND FUTURE DISCOUNTING 2 Religious People

The propensity for religious belief and behavior is a universal feature of human societies, but religious practice often imposes substantial costs upon its practitioners. This suggests that during human cultural evolution, the costs associated with religiosity might have been traded off for psychological or social benefits that redounded to fitness on average. One possible benefit of religious ...

Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula

The aim of this article is to provide an account of the main features of the religious systems documented in Celtic Hispania, focusing on the following: 1) the effects of Romanization on the indigenous religions, with an evaluation of the continuities, ruptures and transformations of traditional religious practices; 2) a geography of the cults of the diverse deities, with particular attention p...

Obsessionality & compulsivity: a phenomenology of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Progress in psychiatry depends on accurate definitions of disorders. As long as there are no known biologic markers available that are highly specific for a particular psychiatric disorder, clinical practice as well as scientific research is forced to appeal to clinical symptoms. Currently, the nosology of obsessive-compulsive disorder is being reconsidered in view of the publication of DSM-V. ...