The aim of the study was to find out if Christians experience God’s silence and so, what are its correlates during COVID-19 pandemic. second purpose identify connections between depressive mood disorders impact on other spiritual experiences. conducted online a group 771 people, mostly Christians. declared by 82.1% respondents. This does not depend sex respondents, but with their age. is commen...

Atheists are among the most disliked groups in America, which has been explained a variety of ways, one is that atheists hostile towards religion and anti-atheist prejudice therefore reactive. We tested this hypothesis by using 2018 American General Social Survey investigating attitudes atheists, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims. initially used general sample Americans, but then ide...

The article focuses on the study of interaction spiritual involvement, topical religious feelings, specifics motivation and subjective well-being among parishioners Church Evangelical Christians-Baptists. experimental data consisted 80 respondents from congregation churches Christians-Baptists with 40 men women involved. We have used a self-designed questionnaire to measure INSPIRIT test made b...

M. Christopher Boyer 9/20/2015 1 When I read the assorted passages suggested by the Revised Common Lectionary for this week’s worship services, I was struck by the way in which both the Psalm and the primary Old Testament reading provide contrasts to where the apostles seem to be in their discussions amongst themselves and a strong backup to what Jesus is trying to teach them. The lectionary ep...

Despite increased religious tolerance in China over the past few decades, persecution of Christians persists. Small churches or Christians who clandestinely meet in small groups may avoid a certain degree of conflict; few studies consider how their larger, less conspicuous counterparts fare. An indigenous resource framework and content analysis of interview, secondary, and participant observati...

OBJECTIVES Male circumcision (MC) reduces HIV infection by approximately 60% among heterosexual men and is recommended by the WHO for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. In northwest Tanzania, over 60% of Muslims but less than 25% of Christian men are circumcised. We hypothesised that the decision to circumcise may be heavily influenced by religious identity and that specific religious belief...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between thought-action fusion (TAF) and religiosity in Christians and Jews (Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform). There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that religiosity is related to obsessive cognitions in Christian samples, but conceptual and empirical ambiguities complicate the interpretation of that literature and its app...