We analyze recent proposals from social scientists suggesting that when sacred values are involved in conflicts, progress towards negotiation can be made if the contending parties make symbolic gestures acknowledging the sacred values of their rivals. We incorporate this possibility in a model in which the allocation of a sacred good can be resolved either by direct conflict or by negotiations ...

In societies where religion plays a strong and important role, the institutions of the society reflect the religion. Yet in societies where religion plays a more secondary role to say that all political concepts are secularized theological concepts is an overstatement. While Carl Schmitt does make a persuasive argument on the role of religion in political thought, he is also mistaken. In this a...

421 a Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University. b Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University. c Professor, e Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University. d Chairman, Department of Orthodontics, Chong-A Denta...

A sacred relationship exists between tobacco and American Indian ceremonial activities and beliefs. This ancient connection continues to play an important role in American Indian communities including the Anishinabe (Ojibwe). Six Ojibwe traditional healers and spiritual leaders described the sacred use of tobacco during interviews. The research provides information on key-informant smoking beha...

Increasingly across the world, political conflict is as a moral clash between different sets of sacred values, which a moral community treats as possessing transcendental significance that precludes comparisons or tradeoffs with instrumental values of realpolitik or the marketplace. In experiments with Israeli settlers, Palestinian refugees and Hamas students we found that violent opposition to...

(Received) Mathematical analysis of Bible passages promises surprising new insights into the meanings of the texts. Relations among God, man and sheep, for example, are clarified with simple algebraic manipulation.

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This article adds to recent literature in the study of religion and marriage by examining older couples’ use of religion as a cultural repertoire in enduring marriages. The study includes qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 43 married, Christian couples. Couples reported four predominant social contexts that gave sacred meanings to their marriage: prayer, worship services and sermo...

Following Head and Neck Cancer Surgery So Yeon Park, MD; Joong Sik Eom, MD; Jin Seo Lee, MD; Eun-Jeong Joo, MD; Jungok Kim, MD; Infectious Diseases, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Infectious Diseases, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, South Korea; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Kangdong Sacred Hea...

Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this work we find that the Iranian nuclear program, a relatively recent development, is treated as sacred by ...