Religious and secular Jewish educational institutions in Arad

Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel

Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. This state of affairs has endangered the political stability of the Israeli regime. The present research is trying to answer this question: what is the effect of religious-secular cleavages in Israel on the fu...

The Secular Benefits of Comparative Religious Education

The Secular Physician and the Religious Patient: Overcoming Religious Discordance in the Clinical Setting

Deciding how best to respond to a patient’s spiritual devotion can raise complex ethical challenges. This is particularly true for medical students and residents who may have little formal training in the area of religion and spirituality. This article explores the challenges inherent to the encounter between a secular physician or medical trainee and a religious patient. A clinical vignette is...

Religious and Ethics in Relation to secular Ethics from Allameh Tabatabai's Viewpoint

In an innovative categorization, Allameh Tabatabai has divided ethical schools into four major including those of: predecessor prophets, Quran, Greek philosophers, and relativism (the followers of evolution theory). The two former schools are known as elements of religious ethics and the latter ones as secular by Allameh Tabatabai. According to his division and evaluation of the ethical schools...

Religious and secular giving, by race and ethnicity

PATTERNS OF GIVING and volunteering by different racial and ethnic groups have been subjected to increasingly sophisticated scrutiny of late. Surveys (for example, Hodgkinson and Weitzman, 1996) suggest that African American and Hispanic families are less likely to make charitable donations or volunteer and make smaller average donations (or volunteer fewer hours) than white and Anglo families....