background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

Intergroup dialogue is a public process designed to involve individuals and groups in an exploration of societal issues such as politics, racism, religion, and culture that are often flashpoints for polarization and social conflict. This article examines intergroup dialogue as a bridging mechanism through which social workers in clinical, other direct practice, organizer, activist, and other ro...

Although the world is called a global village in present age, yet the political system based on ethnicity is still persisting in certain forms. From the time immemorial, humans have either inherited identity or are bound to adopt one. Language and religion based ethnic identities are the dominant issues in the history and evolution of multi-ethnic countries of former Soviet States, Eastern Euro...

How do people come to believe conspiracy theories, and what role does the internet play in this process as a socio-technical system? We explore these questions by examining online participants "chemtrails" conspiracy, idea that visible condensation trails behind airliners are deliberately sprayed for nefarious purposes. apply Weick's theory of sensemaking examine people's frames (beliefs worldv...

This research note aims to examine the effect of religion market abuses on religious conversion, particularly non-transmission preferences from parents their offspring. Based a field survey 1,475 individuals in cities Douala and Yaoundé, this seeks understand dynamics socio-economic forces that lead abandonment parents’ religions. The econometric results reveal explanatory factors for changes o...

In the past ten years there has been increasing interest in rigorous, quantitative analysis of the determinants of civil war, ethnic violence, and other forms of domestic conflict. Scholars have analyzed the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization, terrain, economic growth, natural resources, and a variety of other factors. Little attention, however, has been paid to quantitatively estimat...

Scientific research yields inconsistent and contradictory evidence relating religion to moral judgments and outcomes, yet most people on earth nonetheless view belief in God (or gods) as central to morality, and many view atheists with suspicion and scorn. To evaluate intuitions regarding a causal link between religion and morality, this paper tested intuitive moral judgments of atheists and ot...

BACKGROUND Depression remains a major public health problem, but little is known about the views and understandings of depression held by many ethnic groups. Aim. To explore views and understandings of depression in three ethnic groups-Yoruba, Sylheti-speaking Bangladeshi and White British-living in South London. DESIGN Qualitative, semi-structured interviews, using vignettes describing depre...