BACKGROUND Screening rates for breast and cervical cancer for Muslim women in the United States are low, particularly for first-generation immigrants. Interpretations of the Muslim faith represent some of the barriers for breast and cervical cancer screening. Working to understand how faith influences breast and cervical screening for Somali women, and working with the community to identify and...

Emotional epistemic goals are an alternative to evidencecoherence, whereby beliefs are held for their aid in achieving some desired subjective goal, independent of the beliefs’ veracity. Some prior research has presumed that deference to “faith” constitutes an emotional goal. However, the epistemic nature of faith and its relation to evidence has been the focus of philosophical debate, both his...

The introduction of good faith bargaining in Western Australia: Policy origins and implications for collective bargaining Michael Gillan and Donella Caspersz University of Western Australia The Australian Industrial Relations Commission ruled in 2003 that there was no legal duty on parties to bargain in ‘good faith’. In Western Australia, the Gallop Labor Government has introduced good faith ba...

The article deals with the representation of popular religiosity in work artists Jorge Hidalgo Pimentel and José Emilio Leyva Azze. From engraving, painting, drawing sculpture, both have recreated deities, various symbolic elements, orality, among other aspects that are part social imaginary Cuba. text chooses representative works stages which assume theme greater permanence within their work. ...

Objective: The present study was designed to examine the college student's mental health predication model based on religious faith mediated by happiness, ambivalent attachment style and ‎locus of control. Methods: The method of study was correlational.  The statistical population included all college students of the Shiraz University in the academic year of 2013-2014.  The sample included 240...

Background To build on current research involving faith-based interventions (FBIs) for addressing mental and physical health, this study a) reviewed the extent to which relevant publications integrate faith concepts with health and b) initiated analysis of the degree of FBI integration with intervention outcomes. Methods Derived from a systematic search of articles published between 2007 and ...

for many religious people there is a problem of doubting various creedal statements contained in their religions. often propositional beliefs are looked upon as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition, for salvation. this causes great anxiety in doubters and raises the question of the importance of belief in religion and in life in general. it is a question that has been neglected in phil...