Soviet Secular Ritual: Atheist Propaganda or Spiritual Consumerism?

Secular authority reduces atheist distrust 1 RUNNING HEADER: SECULAR AUTHORITY REDUCES ATHEIST DISTRUST Secular Rule of Law Erodes Believers’ Political Intolerance of Atheists

Atheists are distrusted in societies with religious majorities. However, relatively little is known about the underlying reasons for this phenomenon. Previous evidence suggests that distrust of atheists is in part the result of believers thinking that being under supernatural surveillance by a watchful God underlies moral behavior. However, secular rule of law, including institutions such as po...

Soviet Propaganda Posters

Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, spiritual well-being, and attitudes toward spiritual care: a comparison of israeli jewish oncology nurses' scores.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the differences among secular, traditional, and religious Israeli oncology nurses' intrinsic religiosity, extrinsic religiosity, spiritual well-being, and attitudes toward spiritual care. DESIGN A comparative, descriptive study. SAMPLE 148 Israeli Jewish nurses drawn from the membership of the Israeli Oncology Nursing Association. METHODS Nurses completed mai...

Comment on Prazauskas, Tishkov, and Yamskov

Three important myths about Soviet nationality policy have been exploded since 1988. Most Soviet scholars and Western scholars admit that, contrary to Marxist-Leninist postulates, ethnic consciousness does not necessarily decline as society moves toward modernization or "socialism." In recent years in the U.S.S.R. ethnic consciousness has greatly expanded or surfaced. Second, the assertion that...

DISTRUST IS CENTRAL TO ANTI-ATHEIST PREJUDICE 1 RUNNING HEAD: DISTRUST IS CENTRAL TO ANTI-ATHEIST PREJUDICE Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice

Recent polls indicate that atheists are among the least liked people in areas with religious majorities (i.e., in most of the world). The sociofunctional approach to prejudice, combined with a cultural evolutionary theory of religion‘s effects on cooperation, suggest that anti-atheist prejudice is particularly motivated by distrust. Consistent with this theoretical framework, a broad sample of ...