On March 11, 2011, a large earthquake struck Japan and was followed by a series of devastating tsunamis. One of these tsunamis triggered an explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. March 11 was a natural catastrophe (that civilization failed to prevent) on one hand, and a manmade catastrophe (that civilization created and made worse) on the other. The catastrophe was said to be unpre...

Using religion to improve health is an age-old practice. However, using religion and enlisting religious authorities in public health campaigns, as exemplified by tobacco control interventions and other activities undertaken by WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Although all possible opportunities within society should be exploited to control tobacco...

Based on the interactive features of websites, researchers have distinguished between ‘religion online’ and ‘online religion’. Approaching online religious expression as ‘vernacular religion’ can transcend the distinction by focussing on the lived experience of believers. In this study, qualitative interviews and close textual analysis are deployed to locate four traits that define the ‘vernacu...

Gondang Batak Toba is one of the popular traditions Bataks that bestows high artistic and cultural values for music because it has religious meaning important customary life. This paper aims to find out gondang implemented in traditional research used a qualitative approach with phenomenological methods. Field data was ob- obtained through interviews key informants from an city on Samosir Islan...

OBJECTIVE Many Americans use religious activity to cope with stressful life events. Our goal was to review systematically the recent medical literature to assess the role of religion in health outcomes. DATA SOURCES We conducted a comprehensive literature search using MEDLINE to identify studies published in the English language between January 1999 and June 2003 describing the effect of reli...

mulla sadra is among the scholars presented certain criteria and principles in understanding the significations of religion language.the collection of these criteria and principles indicates his view on the religion understanding.in this study,understanding about the criteria and principles of religion language from mulla sadra`s view has been studied in three main domains including: special fe...

The association between religion and violence has raised much interest in both academic and public circles. Yet on the individual level, existing empirical accounts are both sparse and conflicting. Based on previous research which found that religion plays a role in the support of political violence only through the mediation of objective and perceived deprivations, the authors test Conservatio...

Contrary with the opinion and idea that the civilization difference induces the civilization conflicts, the commonness of civilization is more important in fact. In the various past researches about the civilization comparison, most scholars emphasized to review and look the differences among different civilizations, and deduced that the differences induced the conflicts. However, the differenc...

The four most important King Kong films (1933, 1976, 2005, and 2017) contain religious sentiments that are related to the numinous mysterious fear of Nature death gives meaning life, institutionalization society. In this way, as observed in films, Society originated by religion is a construction against Death. Based on these hypotheses, objective work (a) show social structure tribal society li...