Objective. Although an expanding literature on “stratification beliefs” has developed over the past three decades, research has neglected relationships between religion and beliefs about poverty and other inequalities. This study examines the relationship between religious affiliation and “individualistic,” “structuralist,” and “fatalistic” beliefs about the causes of poverty, and compares the ...

Introduction. The study of religious radicalisation is an important aspect counteracting the incitement hostility between different groups and communities reducing level violence in Russian society. Modern scientific ideas are characterised by multiple meanings that do not effectively counteract negative impact on young people’s attitudes towards religion believers. Academic literature describe...

Ethnicity and religion are known to be important factors associated with substance use and misuse (SUM). Ethnic Bosniaks, Muslims by religion, are the third largest ethnic group in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, but no study has examined SUM patterns among them. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of SUM and to examine scholastic-, familial- and sport-factors associated...

This article explores how religion as a political force shapes and deflects the struggle for gender equality in contexts marked by different histories of nation building and challenges of ethnic diversity, different state-society relations (from the more authoritarian to the more democratic), and different relations between state power and religion (especially in the domain of marriage, family ...

The article presents a review of the current state relations between and religious organizations during COVID-19 pandemic. purpose is to investigate political science aspect manifestation freedom conscience in pandemic period, mainly democratic countries. It noted that democracies, has not been reproduced without problems, non-democracies have persecuted believers, often emphasizing this does i...

North Africa (west of Egypt) is a compelling locale to explore how and when Muslim minority became the majority. Previous scholarly approaches medieval religious change rely almost exclusively on much later written sources, as result, little understood about landscape in which believers operated in. This article examines critically material evidence for mosque construction church abandonment pr...

BACKGROUND Despite hundreds of studies, there is continuing debate about the extent to which violent video games increase aggression. Believers argue that playing violent video games increases aggression, but this stance is disputed by skeptics. The present study addressed believers' and skeptics' responses to summaries of scientific studies that do or do not present evidence for increased aggr...

BACKGROUND While the use of different cognitive strategies when encoding episodic memory information has been extensively investigated, modulation of brain activity by memory self-efficacy beliefs has not been studied yet. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Sixteen young adults completed the prospective and retrospective metamemory questionnaire, providing individual subjective judgments of every...