Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die geplante Reform des Medizinstudiums in Deutschland hat das Potenzial, die akademische Rolle der Allgemeinmedizin stark zu verändern. Der neue Nationale Kompetenzbasierte Lernzielkatalog für Medizinstudium (NKLM 2.0) stellt inhaltliche Grundlage Reformvorschlags dar und richtet Ausbildung an deutschen medizinischen Fakultäten auf kompetenzbasiertes Lernen aus. Wel...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to examine Egyptian ever-married women's beliefs and attitude toward the discontinuation of female genital cutting (FGC). We also examined the significant sources of information which the women with positive attitude were exposed to the year prior to the survey. METHODS In a national representative community-based sample of 15,573 ever-married Egyptian women, the...

Race, Rationality, and Religion, and the US Jury in Civil Cases: What Does Love Have to Do With It? By Paul J. Zwier (An Essay for the Nootbaar Conference, Draft, Not for Citation March 9, 2017)1 The United States is the sole remaining common law jurisdiction that provides parties with the right to have facts in dispute in civil cases determined by a jury.2 This paper considers whether a religi...

Past research has found a robust effect of prejudice against atheists in largely Christian-dominated (belief-oriented) samples. We propose that religious centrality of beliefs vs. practices influences attitudes toward atheists, such that religious groups emphasizing beliefs perceive non-believers more negatively than believers, while groups emphasizing practices perceive non-practicing individu...

This article seeks answers to the perplexing phenomenon: the increasing widespread youth religiosity in contemporary China. How is it possible for young people to acquire such religiosity in a society where the state vigorously opposes religion through its policy and practice? Using data from my own and others’ field observation and investigations, I show that in the past two decades, religious...