Stucco decorations are among the major decorative elements of the religious structures of the Ilkhanid period in Iran.Typical examples of these decorations are found in the mausoleum of Pir-i Bakran, located some” 30 km” southwestof Isfahan. Owing to the importance of the decorative technique and its great stucco decorations, several contemporaryIslamic scholars have described the mausoleum as ...

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

This article examines the empirical indicators of sociological research con- ducted in Institute Demographic Studies (IDS) Federal Research Center Russian Academy Sciences 2022 among student youth Moscow, Tuva and Belgorod regions. In order to solve problem identifying impact religious worldview on socio-political patriotic positions individual, first all, a comparative analysis social orientat...

Abstract We study the co-evolution of religion, science, and politics. first uncover, in international U.S. data, a robust negative relationship between religiosity patents per capita. The model then combines: (1) scientific discoveries that raise productivity but sometimes erode religious beliefs; (2) government allows innovations to diffuse, or blocks them; (3) institutions can invest doctrin...

The impact of ideas and norms on world politics has received a good deal of attention in recent scholarship on international relations. Much of this effort was initially directed at engaging rationalist international relations theory on the causal and transformative impact of ideational forces vis-à-vis power and interest. But after gaining ground in this debate, idea scholars have now turned t...

Trust is a critical aspect of social interaction. One might predict that individuals trust religious out-groups less than religious in-groups, and that costly signals performed by members of religious in-groups increase trust while costly signals performed by members of religious out-groups decrease trust. We examined how Christian participants perceived the trustworthiness of Muslim and Christ...

The paper analyzes the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation and social cooperation. In particular, we focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, analyze their e¤ect on social interactions in society and identify a "spiritual" as well as a "materi...