نتایج جستجو برای: religious conversion

تعداد نتایج: 155344  

2014
Pablo Brañas-Garza Antonio M. Espín Shoshana Neuman

This study explores the relationship between several personal religion-related variables and social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of the urban adult population in Granada (Spain) is employed (N = 766). From participants' decisions in these games we obtain measures of altruism, bargai...

2006
Aaron Landau

In an insightful essay on the representation of racial and religious difference in early modern English drama, Ania Loomba has pointed out the crucial significance of gender in this respect. More often than not, she observes, ‘a fair maid of an alien faith and ethnicity [is] romanced by a European, married to him, and converted to Christianity. Her story, unlike those of converted men, does not...

2014
GERHARD MAYER

The importance of extraordinary experiences for the process of adopting a heterodox belief system or an alternative religious world view is often neglected in the existing research literature. Scholars of religion commonly lay stress on the process of religious conversion characterized by different stages. Extraordinary experiences are, thereby, included as potential internal catalysts (e.g. my...

2008
Wesley V. Jamison Caspar Wenk James V. Parker

This ar ticle reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the Žnding that activism functioned in activists’ and elites’ lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.Various articles and activists have identiŽed both latent and manifest quasi-religious components i...

Journal: :American Journal of Human Genetics 2008
Susan M. Adams Elena Bosch Patricia L. Balaresque Stéphane J. Ballereau Andrew C. Lee Eduardo Arroyo Ana M. López-Parra Mercedes Aler Marina S. Gisbert Grifo Maria Brion Angel Carracedo João Lavinha Begoña Martínez-Jarreta Lluis Quintana-Murci Antònia Picornell Misericordia Ramon Karl Skorecki Doron M. Behar Francesc Calafell Mark A. Jobling

Most studies of European genetic diversity have focused on large-scale variation and interpretations based on events in prehistory, but migrations and invasions in historical times could also have had profound effects on the genetic landscape. The Iberian Peninsula provides a suitable region for examination of the demographic impact of such recent events, because its complex recent history has ...

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