To evaluate the capability of SPOT5 HRG data for monitoring the pollarding forest areas in northern Zagros, some parts of pollarded forests located at Baneh city were selected. The Pollarding area was determined as ground truth in a 3-year alternation period using a Global Positioning System (GPS). Radiometric and geometric correction, were applied to the image and then the data was pre-process...

In this paper we examine public attitudes on the role of religion in the American political process, as well as some public policy implications of those attitudes. Although the current American legal regime may lean toward strict separationism, the political system has seen renewed religious activism over the past three decades. Historically, religious involvement in American politics has been ...

respect and reverence for water and trees are institutionalised in many ancient civilisations due to socio-cultural traditions, values and beliefs. in iranian societies, respect for trees and water, separately and in composite form as gardens, is a well-known cultural value both before and after islam. therefore, the first part of this paper explains the value and importance of plants and garde...

religion, as a social phenomenon, affects society and is affected by it interactively. in iran, basically with religious norms and laws, many scholars and researchers concern with religion and level of religiosity. the paper is a comparative analysis of level of religiosity based on glynn and stark’s dimensions of religiosity, in three different generations in sari city: first generation (pre-r...

Oromo, çok eskiden beri Etiyopya’da yaşayan yerli halklardan biridir. Günümüzde Oromo’nun çoğu Hristiyan (Ortodoks, Protestan) ve Müslümandır. Yine de bazı Oromolar hâlâ Waqefanna adlı dinlerine bağlıdır. Ancak, Hıristiyanlık İslam’ın gelişinden sonra, ’yı terk etmiş Hıristiyanlığı veya İslam’ı kucaklamıştır. Oromo halkı bu nedenle son 150 yıldan büyük bir dini dönüşüm geçirmiştir. tarihi yılla...

Existing research on religious identity, especially from a narrative perspective, has tended to focus either on accounts of the past (especially occasions of religious change) or on conceptions of religious identity in the present. Religious communities, however, not only provide a sense of identity and belonging in the present—as a “Catholic” or “Buddhist,” for example—they also promote a part...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The cognitive-behavioural perspective on obsessions recognizes that certain cultural experiences such as adherence to religious beliefs about the importance of maintaining strict mental control might increase the propensity for obsessional symptoms via the adoption of faulty appraisals and beliefs about the unacceptability and control of unwanted intrusive thoughts. Fe...