The use of images in intimate piety the XIV–XV centuries responded to need create a mental reality that would be complemented by imitation Jesus’, Mary’s and saints’ lives turned into models permanent emulation. faithful were expected show same qualities as these divine characters, so spiritual practices acquired ethical public implications. Devotional objects played central role meditation, af...

Taqwa (piety) is a construct in Islamic psychology. It correlates with large number of behavior such as sustainable capacity building, leadership, employees’ happiness, and workplace deviance. But the earlier studies have failed to capture assessment taqwa from Qur'anic perspective. In present study, an attempt made standardize scale. first phase, pool 30 items was generated for each three doma...

This study aimed to provide preliminary estimates on proclivity to elder abuse and to determine the efficacy of the intergenerational transmission of violence and ecological theories in predicting elder abuse in contemporary Chinese societies. A total of 464 (225 males and 239 females) Chinese residing in Hong Kong completed questionnaires on attitudes toward elderly people, modernity, and fili...

The difference which one remarks in the man and the woman, comes not only from education, but also from their nature. The fibers of the woman are ordinarily more slender, which makes the senses more fine, and the interior sentiment more delicate. This natural disposition makes them prefer perceptible objects to metaphysical realities, amiable qualities to essential qualities, the brilliant to t...