BACKGROUND Religion and Ethnicity are the two most important factors that shape the behavioral pattern especially health seeking behaviors of the people of Nigeria. This study seeks to examine the mediatory effects of the linkage between ethnicity and religion with selected socio-demographic variables on the current use of contraception (CUC) among women of reproductive age in Nigeria. METHOD...

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

this paper tries to study the complex relationship between religion, popular culture and the internet. the internet not only prepares some facilities for religion, but also it’s a site for a new interaction between religion and popular culture. first, the paper points out five features of the internet which help to extend and promote the religious communication in the cyberspace: 1. deterritori...

Religion and spirituality are usually considered as protective factors against a host of negative health outcomes. Recent surveys have documented several associations between religion/spirituality and physical and mental health outcomes. Most of the evidences on the effects of religion on general health suggest that religion commonly plays a positive role. On the other side, religion and spirit...

What should the philosophical study of religion look like in an epoch increasing political polarization, cultural ferment, and religious fragmentation? Drawing on work Amy Hollywood others, I argue that philosophers seeking to understand what seem be incommensurable moral communities ought attend more fully role spiritual practice formation as irreducible components certain beliefs ethical intu...

religion has always had a significant role in indian thoughts and unlike the west, the separation of religion and science has never happened in india. even today, the role of religion is evident in diverse aspects of indian life, and religious links and tendencies are represented in the works of contemporary thinkers. but among all contemporary scholars vivekananda has been a pioneer in this re...