The alliance of the Polish Catholic Church with Law and Justice (PiS) government has been widely reported resulted in significant benefits for Church. However, beginning mid-2016, top church leadership, including Episcopal Conference, distanced itself from condemned its use National Catholicism as legitimation rhetoric government’s malpractices fields human rights democracy. How to account this...

Religion is commonly defined as a set of rules, developed as part of a culture. Here we provide evidence that practice in following these rules systematically changes the way people attend to visual stimuli, as indicated by the individual sizes of the global precedence effect (better performance to global than to local features). We show that this effect is significantly reduced in Calvinism, a...

The context of this paper is my long-term research project analyzing the role of Catholicism in contemporary Nicaragua in defining women, women ́s roles, and their rights, especially reproductive rights. I am looking at the role of the Catholic Church as an institution in national policies in Nicaragua and its influence on the country ́s international policies, especially in the context of the mo...

Multiculturalism and its associated plurality of value systems is rapidly becoming the norm in modern medical practice. Given this increasing diversity, greater emphasis upon cultural and ethical competence in physician training is necessary in order to provide culturally sensitive and ethically sound care. Religious values shape ethical codes and are expressed in the cultural norms of subcommu...

The electric catfishes of African rivers and lakes, once depicted on Egyptian tomb art, have been largely overlooked in histories and reviews of electric fish biology and animal electricity. This article examines how Westerners, especially Dominican and Jesuit missionaries, discovered them in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa at the beginning of the seventeenth century. What transpired took pl...

Both contemporaries and historians have focused on the high-profile 1874 Belfast Address in which John Tyndall was widely perceived as promulgating atheism. Although some historians have instead interpreted him as a pantheist or an agnostic, it is clear that any such labels do not accurately capture Tyndall’s religious position throughout his life. By contrast, this paper seeks to chart Tyndall...

Wojciech Koronkiewicz's book "With the Mother of God on a bike. Journey to miraculous images, orthodox icons and holy springs Podlasie” is discussed in context philosophy dialogue inscribed message work. The author's meetings with Other are presented taking into account multiculturalism Podlasie, history this region, interpenetration Orthodoxy Catholicism. journey title interpreted spirit Gabri...