The purpose of this study is to investigate religious features of curanderismo, specifically the role of ostensibly Roman Catholic beliefs and practices in the training and work of curandero/as. The integration of religious beliefs and practices within the rituals of curanderismo and how this potential clash of worldviews negatively and positively impacts clients and practitioners are examined....

The study  attempts to answer two basic  questions. Firstly, whether  religiosity  is  efficient  in  reducing  delinquent   behavior   and , secondly, if the answer is yes , how much is its effect? The samples was divided into common people and delinquent youth in prison. The scholars like Durkheim, Weber, Stark, Glock and those assertions regarding delinquency as Merton, Hirschi learning the...

with the advent of new media and communication theory, and consequently their particular social circumstances of each period, a new look at the interaction between religion and the media has taken shape. . interaction between religion and the media, both as a social institution and as the message and the means of transport, according to a media functions and religious aspects of each of the maj...

Social psychologists have often followed other scientists in treating religiosity primarily as a set of beliefs held by individuals. But, beliefs are only one facet of this complex and multidimensional construct. The authors argue that social psychology can best contribute to scholarship on religion by being relentlessly social. They begin with a social-functionalist approach in which beliefs, ...

We develop a model of social signalling of religiosity and cooperative behaviour in religious organizations. The model embeds a ritual-based religious organization in which signalling arises through the use of costly rituals, and a discipline-based religious organization in which such signalling occurs through the monitoring of past behaviour. We use this framework to contrast -positively and n...

in this paper,ojectivity_with its various and as a feature of scientific knowledge_is studied,with its relation to subjectivity. the role of evidence in satisfying  the criteria of objectivity and thier impression from general concepts and presuppositions are also evluated. in the end,the factual objectivity is accepted with the respect to sciences. also mentioned is the impression of scientifi...

Contemporary China offers a particularly interesting setting to study religious diversity as a result of its unique socio-political context. Based on the quantitative and qualitative evidence in a representative sample of Chinese dissertations, this essay identifies two characteristics associated with the usage of ‘religious diversity’ in contemporary Chinese scholarship: firstly, the focal poi...