The global intensification of religionization has raised renewed questions about the validity secularization thesis. Research supporting thesis suggested an alternative perspective, emphasizing correlation between security levels and religious adherence. It posits that as rise, reliance on religion diminishes, whereas in contexts low security, need for intensifies. An examination trajectories d...

Empirical research has ignored the effects of poverty on adolescent religion even though children are far more likely than adults to live in poverty in the United States. The current research demonstrates considerable differences in the religious activities and religious viewpoints of poor and non-poor American teenagers. Analysis of National Study of Youth and Religion survey data shows that w...

BACKGROUND Despite known health benefits of spiritual care and high patient interest in discussing spirituality with their physicians, the frequency of spiritual discussions in the medical consultation is low. We investigated spiritual conversations for doctors caring for patients with advanced cancer; why these conversations so difficult; and what the underlying challenges are for discussing s...

The religious symbols exposed in public buildings, such as schools, courtrooms, etc., recent years animated the debate not only but also jurisprudential. It turns out that, after centuries of attempts to “purify” states influences, spaces symbols, it seems that modern state has failed do so. In this century globalization, we see a return sacred, clash between different cultures, "duel" absolute...

High profile (and controversial) events and installations, like the Helter-Skelter in Norwich Crazy Golf Bridges Rochester, have drawn attention to innovation public engagement within Anglican cathedrals. The present study contextualised these innovations both empirically conceptually. empirical framework draws on cathedral websites chronicle wide diverse range of installations hosted by cathed...

Religion, in both the sense of the institution and religious practices, is embedded in society the social forms of religious life are fully integrated into the structures of society. Secularization is a source of great debate, and is a prominent feature in the sociology of religion literature. The need to examine the extent to which Catholicism in Ireland has been affected by the secular moveme...

In this study, we analyze the development of religious media on example France in 19th and 21st centuries order to show complex structure versatility content that they somehow fill with (or religiously accepta- ble) content. For end XX – beginning XXI centuries, phenomenon modern society has undergone significant changes. It is not similar what previously existed within traditional religions, e...

Technology is a new theology. Substantively, technology represents the culmination of human creation undergirded by reason, without reference to supernatural. In that sense, kind secular substitute for Functionally, through its ubiquity and esoteric rules govern our lives so comprehensively, echoes binding nature theology as subset religion (from religare, meaning ‘to rebind’). However, techno-...