Religious Communities of 1960s America

Living wills and religious communities.

Religious Communities and Human Flourishing

Participation in religious services is associated with numerous aspects of human flourishing, including happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. Evidence for the effects of religious communities on these flourishing outcomes now comes from rigorous longitudinal study designs with extensive confounding...

citizenship behaviors in religious communities

the topic of citizenship is an issue that many scholars from different point of views have paid attention to this concept. we can see and recognize some dimensions of citizenship in the works of greek and islamic philosophers. in this article, we examine the most important dimension of citizenship i.e. behavior. under the light of this research, as we can see in islamic religious texts, there a...

Individual-based modeling of potential poliovirus transmission in connected religious communities in North America with low uptake of vaccination.

BACKGROUND Pockets of undervaccinated individuals continue to raise concerns about their potential to sustain epidemic transmission of vaccine-preventable diseases. Prior importations of live polioviruses (LPVs) into Amish communities in North America led to their recognition as a potential and identifiable linked network of undervaccinated individuals. METHODS We developed an individual-base...

From clinic to congregation: religious communities and genetic medicine.

The human genome project is an attempt to identify all the genes on the human chromosomes that determine the biological makeup of every individual. Armed with such knowledge, argues M. Therese Lysaught, doctors will face intense pressure to practice medicine in a way that differs radically from practice at present. Rather than responding to disease, they will attempt to eliminate the biological...