Although most people are religious, there are hundreds of millions of religious disbelievers in the world. What is religious disbelief and how does it arise? Recent developments in the scientific study of religious beliefs and behaviors point to the conclusion that religious disbelief arises from multiple interacting pathways, traceable to cognitive, motivational, and cultural learning mechanis...

The current study attempted to examine the religious maturity of Hindu (N=1050), Christian (N=1073) and Muslim (N=1394) adolescents studying at secondary level in Pakistan. This research is based on the theory of religious orientations presented by Allpport (1950). Age universal I-E scale (revised version of ROS – Religious Orientation Scale) developed by Kirkpatrick (1988) and Maltby (1999) wa...

A potential weakness of any research is its applicability to real problems, and it is often difficult to determine whether a particular application needs a particular technology. Space missions offer a wide variety of multiagent problem domains, but the technology needs of these missions vary. Techniques developed by research in Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) employ representations that...

The article offers an analysis of ethical concepts in Russian religious-didactic literature the 17th century. main sources are alphabets published Moscow. There were two printed by Vasily Burtsov, and alphabet Karion Istomin, as well “Azbuka s oratsiey” (Alphabet with Didactics), manuscript “Alfavititsy didaskala” (Small Alphabet a Teacher). These can be considered because addition to grammar, ...

How are the Big Two personality dimensions of agency (e.g., competence, uniqueness, ambition) and communion (e.g., warmth, relatedness, morality) related to religiosity? A standard view assumes that communion encourages religiosity, whereas agency is independent of religiosity. Our model is more nuanced, taking into account the Big Two’s motivational base as well as culture: Because communal in...

Several works have presented the Hadith on different digital platforms, ranging from websites to mobile apps. These were successful in presenting text of users, but this does not help them answer any particular questions about religious matters. Therefore, work we propose a question-answering system that was built knowledge graph. To interpret user correctly, used Levenshtein distance function,...

Many human tragedies arise from religious extremism. This paper seeks to explain and provide an argument that the root of problem extremism lies in failure recognize essence religion its equality with humanity itself. In context Islam, through hermeneutics Mulla Shadra this attempts Qur'an, man nature are three aspects a single existential reality. introduction brought all peak their sacred per...

The subject of religious experience has been marginalised in the social sciences. Although authors such as James (1903) have suggested that religious experience is pre-cultural and pre-cognitive, this paper argues against the perennialist position, suggesting instead that religious experience and its narration are both socially constructed. The ideological role of religious experience is discus...

This paper attempts to explain several empirical findings regarding religion. The main one is between religion and the fear of death. Some empirical evidence indicates moderately religious individuals fear death more than either atheists or extremely religious individuals. The model also explains the positive relationship often found between religious activity (e.g. church attendance) and age. ...

Religious attendance is an important element of activity for older Europeans, especially in more traditional countries. The aim of the analysis is to explore whether it could be an element contributing to active ageing as well as to assess differences between the religious activity of older individuals with and without multimorbidity defined as an occurrence of two or more illnesses. The analys...