This paper describes two experiments which investigate the effects of pseudo-psychic demonstrations (i.e. conjuring tricks which could be misinterpreted as genuine paranormal phenomena). In the first study, a demonstration of a supposed medium was presented to 91 subjects individually, in which the playing card selected by a subject was identified ‘‘telepathically’’. It was found that hypnotic ...

Religious politics, in which there is a dominant cleavage separating believers (especially if literalist) from moderate believers and nonbelievers is important in Muslim countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Will Muslim societies become secular or continue to become more religious? Within the religious majority, are Islamists (supporters of Shari’a Law) more fertile than non-Islamist M...

Previous studies have shown that one's prior beliefs have a strong effect on perceptual decision-making and attentional processing. The present study extends these findings by investigating how individual differences in paranormal and conspiracy beliefs are related to perceptual and attentional biases. Two field studies were conducted in which visitors of a paranormal conducted a perceptual dec...

On March 6, 2022, Olga Rovnova, a linguist and dialectologist, died after serious illness. She studied the Old Believers for many years, was specialist in Russian aspectology, as well of Estonia Latin America. initiated interdisciplinary studies language culture Believers' chapels South America, immigrants from China. In 2006–2008 Rovnova organized reconnaissance dialectological expeditions to ...

Comfort is necessity for every believer in this changing world. Believers are constantly faced with various challenges and struggles life that not easy. Since the world keeps require readiness of believers to react changing. In addition, continue struggle against sinful desires lead holy blameless get know Christ more. The Bible teaches God throughout ages. This paper will show who has redeemed...

The Schism of the Russian Orthodox Church was triggered by church reforms in second half 17th century. People protesting against were called Old Believers, Ritualists, schismatics or heretics. and state authorities persecuted these schismatics, leading to their migration outskirts country beyond borders Russia. first Believers arrived at end century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which marked ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the role psychological time perspective and spiritual transcendence as predictors one’s belief status (e.g., religious believer vs. non-believer). underlying assumption that individual differences in engaging with broad existential issues would determine whether or not be value. Using a sample 373 believers 316 non-believers (411 women 293 mean, mean age...

The religious contradictions in multinational countries are inevitable, which is confirmed by world history. To prevent conflicts, the state throughout its existence took feelings of believers under protection, including through prosecution persons who violated criminal standards towards believers. protection itself corresponds to content law principles. However, concepts religion, feelings, be...