Positive and negative religious coping strategies and their relation with posttraumatic stress (PTS), psychological distress, and posttraumatic growth (PTG) were examined in the context of Hurricane Katrina. Positive religious coping was hypothesized to be associated with PTG, whereas negative religious coping was hypothesized to be associated with PTS and psychological distress. Low-income mot...

Article history: Received 9 November 2015 Received in revised form 1 February 2016 Accepted 5 February 2016 Available online 18 February 2016 In three samples of Christian undergraduate students (n=43, n=115, n=73), we investigated the relative influence of Christian religious identification and intergroup disgust sensitivity (ITG-DS; an affect-laden individual difference variable reflecting re...

In ‘secular’ Western societies, religious topics permeate media texts of books, films, series and games and such texts even inform several religious-spiritual movements. Critically expanding on theories about ‘fiction-based religion’, ‘invented religion’ or ‘hyper-real religion’, this article studies if, how and why players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of...

A meta-analysis of data from 42 independent samples examining the association of a measure of religious involvement and all-cause mortality is reported. Religious involvement was significantly associated with lower mortality (odds ratio = 1.29; 95% confidence interval: 1.20-1.39), indicating that people high in religious involvement were more likely to be alive at follow-up than people lower in...

To determine the relation of religious behavior to certain areas of personality, such as neuroticism, spontaneity, and worldmindedness, dimensions of personal and religious behavior were isolated by factor analysis and interrelated by canonical analysis. Characteristics of religious behavior and personalityreligion interaction differ among Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Baha'is, and non-affiliat...

This article focuses on three conceptual lenses through which a better understanding of the politics religion in contemporary China is expected to obtain. On basis genealogical and discursive analysis ‘religious freedom’ as paradoxical concept institution, by identifying ‘post-colonial’ condition China, this argues for non-dichotomous Chinese Western political approaches religious freedom attem...

The values of character building in students are a reflection the institution preparing future generations who have religious, tolerant, democratic and love country’s characters. purpose this study is to describe for students, implementation perspective Pancasila. This research uses qualitative method with case type research. results illustrate that: (1) seen student discipline when attending l...

The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of ethnicity (African American vs European/other ancestry), family religious affiliation, religious involvement, and religious values, to risk of alcohol and cigarette use in adolescent girls; and to estimate genetic and shared environmental effects on religious involvement and values. Telephone interviews were conducted with a sam...