Previous literature on religion and sexual behavior has focused on narrow definitions of religiosity, including religious affiliation, religious participation, or forms of religiousness (e.g., intrinsic religiosity). Trends toward more permissive premarital sexual activity in the North American Christian-Judeo religion support the secularization hypothesis of religion, which posits an increasin...

Belief in God and belief in the science of evolution are not mutually exclusive concepts. Thousands of scientists who believe in God are able to separately study and teach evolution. As scientists and parents, we owe it to our children to ensure that public school science curricula teach the science of evolution and not promote a particular religious faith or belief system.

Islamic spiritual counseling is based on views about God, human nature, the purpose of life, spirituality, morality, and life after death. Spiritual done by praying techniques, teaching concepts, scripture references, experiences, praying, encouraging forgiveness using religious communities or groups. The research was conducted qualitatively case studies in order to be described depth understan...

Perceived belonging to a community is one of the most frequently given reasons for regularity religious practice. However, it also plays key role in practice violence. The paper addresses relationship between felt belonging, which established shared experiences, and different expressions hostility. By means phenomenological analysis based on work Bernhard Waldenfels, author distinguishes modes ...

We propose that people may gain certain "offensive" and "defensive" advantages for their cherished belief systems (e.g., religious and political views) by including aspects of unfalsifiability in those belief systems, such that some aspects of the beliefs cannot be tested empirically and conclusively refuted. This may seem peculiar, irrational, or at least undesirable to many people because it ...

considering the large amount of investment in railway transportation systems, effective use of resources is highly important. typically, in order to utilize the line capacity, train scheduling plays a substantial role and thus attracts lots of attention all over the world. various train-scheduling models are introduced, according to different conditions of different countries. however, for iran...

It has been claimed that video gamers possess increased perceptual and cognitive skills compared to non-video gamers. Here, we examined which extent gaming performance in CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) correlates with visual performance. We tested 94 players ranging from beginners experts a battery of paradigms, such as acuity contrast detection. In addition, assessed specific skills,...

In the present article, based on results from a survey study in Sweden among 2,355 cancer patients, the role of religion in coping is discussed. The survey study, in turn, was based on earlier findings from a qualitative study of cancer patients in Sweden. The purpose of the present survey study was to determine to what extent results obtained in the qualitative study can be applied to a wider ...