Religiously Disaffiliated, Religiously Indifferent, or Believers without Religion? Morphology of the Unaffiliated in Argentina

Religiously protecting Myanmar's environment.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 337 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 1575 COVER A biodegradable integrated circuit (length: ~2.54 centimeters) shown partially dissolved by a droplet of water. This demonstration system includes transistors; diodes; inductors and capacitors, with magnesium for the electrodes/interconnects; magnesium oxide for the gate/interlayer dielectrics; silicon nanomembranes for the semicon...

Kazan: the Religiously Undivided Frontier City

Located at the confluence of the Turko-Islamic and Slavic-Christian worlds, Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, a semiautonomous region of Russia, is populated by roughly even numbers of Muslim Tatars and Eastern Orthodox Russians. The city is separately important to each group’s national history. For the Tatars, it is remembered as the seat of their Islamic state that held sway ov...

Religion and Democracy in the Post-modern World: the Possibility of a “religiously Qualified” Public Sphere

Physician Perspectives on Religiously Related Conflict in the Medical Encounter

Results: Conflict introduced by religion is common and occurs in 3 types of settings: (1) those in which religious doctrines directly conflict with medical recommendations, (2) those that involve an area in which there is extensive controversy within the broader society, and (3) settings of relative medical uncertainty in which patients “choose faith over medicine.” In response to such conflict...

Spiritually and religiously oriented health interventions.

Controlled intervention studies offer considerable promise to better understand relationships and possible mechanisms between spiritual and religious factors and health. Studies examining spiritually augmented cognitive-behavioral therapies, forgiveness interventions, different meditation approaches, 12-step fellowships, and prayer have provided some evidence, albeit modest, of efficacy in impr...