The Public Health Implications of Religious Exemptions: A Balance Between Public Safety and Personal Choice, or Religion Gone Too Far?

The Relationship between Religious Beliefs and Behaviors and the Intention of Premarital Sexual Abstinence among Iranian Youths

Background and objectives : Relatively little is known about the relationship between religion and abstinence. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between religious beliefs and behaviors and the intention of premarital sexual abstinence among Iranian youths. Methods: The current study was a cross-sectional one carried out among youths of five universities in Shiraz, Iran. 577 p...

A Study on the Different Effect of Religiosity in General and Private Spheres of Life

Some researchers based on the distinction theory, believe that religious influence on other spheres of social life reduce and in spite of traditional life spheres lead by a set of its values, not by a coherent unit and driven by fragmentation theory of values.  The effect of religion on public life and private areas such as work and family over the area of public policy is effective. The relat...

Religious exemptions to childhood immunization statutes: reaching for a more optimal balance between religious freedom and public health.

Shifting Vaccination Politics--The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California.

substantially narrowing exceptions to school-entry vaccination mandates. With that law, California becomes the third state to disallow exemptions based on both religious and philosophical beliefs; only medical exemptions remain. The move represents a stunning victory for public health that affects not only California schoolchildren but also the prospects for strengthening vaccination requiremen...

The Effectiveness of Religious Teachings Presented in the “Religion and Life” Textbook of the 2nd Grade of High School from Students’ Point of View

The Effectiveness of Religious Teachings Presented in the “Religion and Life” Textbook of the 2nd Grade of High School from Students’ Point of View I. Motaghizadeh, Ph.D. H.  Yaghoubi, M.A. The present research aimed to examine the effectiveness of religious teachings presented in the “Religion and Life” Textbook of the 2nd grade of high scho...