The papers in this issue arose from a conference on the Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity that took place at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) in August, 2003. 1 This conference brought together scholars from ten nations and six disciplines (psychology, anthropology, religious studies, biology, philosophy, and cognitive science) to explore new developments at the interfac...

A large literature shows that religious participation is associated with a wide range of behaviors and outcomes, but what drives this association is unclear. On the one hand, this association may stem from correlations in preferences, where those with tastes for religion coincidentally have particular tastes for other behaviors as well. Alternately, religious participation may directly affect b...

One of the parts and parcels of postcolonial literature is to deconstruct the history written by imperialism and to present the one as experienced by the colonized. As victims of British colonialism, Australian Aborigines have always mirrored the historical religious and territorial subjugation of their land in their writings, especially in their dramatic literature because of its high populari...

religious view point is a part of social character structure. the religion is made of two parts: the first part is the legal section which is documented by the religious texts and prays and the second part is the issues that the social life has influence on them such as superstition, myths and traditions. one of the phenomenon which have been created because of the social traditions entrance is...

sciencethe article intends to study the common denominators and intersection of the empirical sciences with and religion so as to study the instances in which religion may effect scinces. the aim is to provide foundations for the establishment of religious science. for this purpoes,with the help of literature produced in the philosophy of science ,such subjects as the mode of scientific cogniza...

the prayers of imam sajjad (as) have a special artistic style that contribute to a great body of our religious literature. therefore, it is essential to pay due attention to this aspect of the prayers also known as the prayer literature. in this paper, we try to analyze the imagery created through personification in the prayers of imam sajjad (as) with the aim of portraying emotion, movement an...

Goold (1997) has argued that the Porter (1980) five-forces framework for industry analysis is not applicable to nonprofits. In light of recent essays (e.g. Miller, 2002) as well as literature from the world of religious nonprofit organizations and organization theory, the Porter framework is analyzed through a review of representative literature. The religious nonprofit arena was chosen for thi...

In high profile academic outlets and the popular press, Bagiella, Hong, and Sloan1 (hereafter BHS, based on the authorship of the article in this issue) have been very outspoken critics of the scientific literature on religion and health/mortality, as well as the implications that such literature may or may not have for the practice of health care and medicine in the United States.2–4 While pra...