The discrimination of thatcherized faces from typical faces was explored in two simultaneous alternative forced choice tasks. Reaction times (RTs) and errors were measured in a behavioural task. Brain activation was measured in an equivalent fMRI task. In both tasks, participants were tested with upright and inverted faces. Participants were also tested on churches in the behavioural task. The ...

Byzantine chants constitute a form of monophonic vocal music characterized by lengthy phrases and by musical scales with intervals smaller than the western music semitones. Byzantine churches have extremely long Reverberation Time and their acoustics is dominated by the contributions of the diffuse sound field. Thus, the sound character of Byzantine chanting is closely linked to the acoustic re...

FOR several years the National Association for Mental Health has run courses for chaplains in mental hospitals, and many of these have expressed the value of courses in their parish work. As a result of this, the National Association approached the London Churches' Group, expressing the hope that two pilot schemes might be organised; one south and one north of the river. Miss Proud, the General...

Building on the work of S. M. Sales, who related contemporaneous economic threat to authoritarian behaviors, two studies tested the hypothesis that threat is associated with relatively more attraction to authoritarian churches and less attraction to nonauthoritarian churches. The hypothesis was supported in Study 1, when the annual percentage of changes in memberships (1928-1986) for two author...

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New Julfa is an area located in south of Zayanderud (life giving) River in Isfahan City; Central Iran. At first, it seems like any other areas in Iranian cities but a meticulous eye can find numerous differences. The domes and campaniles of thirteen Armenian Apostolic churches with their eclectic and unique combinations are visible for walkers and they form the visual difference. One can hear p...

We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The supply of religion declines once c...

This is a book for which there is a great need. It is sadly true, that, though the Churches have excellent publications on this subject, the great majority of people are suspicious of them, because they feel that the Churches are naturally in favour of religion. This book is the result of the collaboration between a well-known psychologist and a parish priest. The essential beliefs of Christian...

A manifesto, signed by a number of Bishops and by the presidents of several religious bodies, has been issued condemning charity lotteries, and particularly lotteries for hospitals. The i sasons given why the Churches "feel that the lottery method for hospitals and philanthropic purposes is a retrograde step"' are that the appeal of the lottery is to the possibility of gain for self?an appeal d...

abst r act The last number of yearshasseen themushroomingof African Pentecostal churches, especially Prosperity Gospel churches, in the post-recession industrial landscapes of Ireland. This article aims to explore the growth of African Pentecostalism in Ireland from both the perspective of embodied and affective religious experience and the conditions for the possibility of those religious expe...