If one would tackle any major problem in life it is helpful to observe the comprehensive nature of the thing from an external vantage point before diving into the gritty details. This is also described as grasping the “big picture” or getting a birds-eye-view on the problem. I think that this holistic approach is helpful when dealing with ethical issues as well. In this paper I will first defin...

BACKGROUND The Islamic Medical Association of Uganda, has been implementing the faith-based approach to HIV prevention without baseline data on expected positive outcomes. OBJECTIVES To establish evidence-based baseline data on expected positive outcomes of the faith-based approach to HIV prevention. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 15-24 year-old youths was analyzed for significant assoc...

In this report 6566 women enrolled in the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) were separated into three groups; members of religious sects, Christians who attend church frequently and Christians who are infrequent attenders. These three groups, respectively labelled Christian sects, Christian attenders and lukewarm Christians were compared on a number of social background, ...

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration a...

The present study examines social history of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement from perspective Christian communities that participated in it. Special attention is given to Melkite and Nestorian translators active ʿAbbāsid Baghdad – late eighth-century translator al-Biṭrīq famous ninth-century Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq complex interactions between Melkites Nestorians, which involved both competitio...

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...

This article is about the implications of an already dominant workplace group (Christians) asking for more Christian religious expression beyond Title VII. It is my contention that despite the good intentions of Christians advocating for implementation of “faith-at-work” initiatives, the desire to increase workplace Christian expression will likely turn into higher levels of exclusion for non-C...