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A process of secularisation can be observed in all European countries: church membershipdeclines and religious institutions lose their monopoly. This is strongest among Dutchyoungsters, but it does not automatically lead to a loss of religion. Instead it is a process ofindividualisation of religion. Youngsters nowadays construct a personal framework of meaningby choosing from av...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Prayer for health (PFH) is common; in 2002, 35% of US adults prayed for their health. We examined the relationship of PFH and primary care visits, with a special focus on African American women, using data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). METHODS We used chi-square analyses to compare the demographic (age group, gender, race, region, marital sta...

HE anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways iq T which different peoples behave in similar situations that he is not apt to. be surprised by even the most exotic customs. In fact, if all of thelogically possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the world, he is apt to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed tribe. This point has...

ing from the text, we find the following order of specific actions (n.b.: numbers assigned to actions here do not correspond to numbers assigned to stanzas by Dumont as found in the appended translation):