We argue that a central function of religious attendance in the contemporary U.S. is to support a high-fertility, monogamous mating strategy. Although religious attendance is correlated with many demographic, personality, moral, and behavioral variables, we propose that sexual and family variables are at the core of many of these relationships. Numerous researchers have assumed that religious s...

Through a correlational study, the researcher observed the relationship between the degree of post-divorce adjustment and the use of religious coping mechanisms among young adults with divorced parents. Fourteen participants (11 women, 3 men) ranged in age from 17 to 21 years (M = 19.14). By correlating responses to the Child Divorce Adjustment Inventory, the Religious Coping Scale, and the Chi...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new theoretically based measure that would assess the full range of religious coping methods, including potentially helpful and harmful religious expressions. The RCOPE was tested on a large sample of college students who were coping with a significant negative life event. Factor analysis of the RCOPE in the college sample yielded factors ...

This study aims to analyze the cognitive level of school exam questions on Islamic Religious Education subjects based Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Taxonomy is used as an assessment framework describe complexity requested by each question. The research method was content analysis question banks from several schools covering primary and secondary education levels. results show that most still concen...

While the importance of implementing value-based strategies has been widely researched, empirical research on applying such to create a religious atmosphere that can improve workers’ performance in companies is limited. Therefore, this study aims generate Value-Based Strategy Model for creating and examine its influence steel construction businesses' Indonesia. The model based concept religious...

one of the most important tekyes in iran and one of the most important islamic buildings in kermanshah province is the mo’aven-ol molk tekyeh. this building is located in historical context (barzeh damagh district) and related to the late qajar period. based on the present situation, the space of this tekye has been formed of four parts: courtyard entrance, hoseiniyeh, zainabiyeh and abbasiyeh....

Culture shapes individuals, but the measurement of cultural differences has proven a challenge. Traditional measures of cultural values focus on individual perceptions. We suggest that values are established and maintained within social communities of proximate others, such as the family and its social environment. Within such communities, values serve to maintain collective harmony whilst pres...

Segregation measures have been applied in the study of many societies and traditionally such measures have been used to assess the degree of division between social and cultural groups across national or regional areas. The degree of segregation can vary substantially from place to place even within cities. In this paper, the concern is with religious/political segregation – particularly the pr...

Although most people are religious, there are hundreds of millions of religious disbelievers in the world. What is religious disbelief and how does it arise? Recent developments in the scientific study of religious beliefs and behaviors point to the conclusion that religious disbelief arises from multiple interacting pathways, traceable to cognitive, motivational, and cultural learning mechanis...

The current study attempted to examine the religious maturity of Hindu (N=1050), Christian (N=1073) and Muslim (N=1394) adolescents studying at secondary level in Pakistan. This research is based on the theory of religious orientations presented by Allpport (1950). Age universal I-E scale (revised version of ROS – Religious Orientation Scale) developed by Kirkpatrick (1988) and Maltby (1999) wa...