Mary is a central figure in the Catholic Church. In fact, among Christians, who mere woman more “popular” than Jesus God and savior. This can be seen Marian devotions shrines which are far outnumber places of pilgrimage to Jesus. mother, not only for but also Church, that is, all faithful. article will specifically discuss life role Using library research, this paper scrutinizes Scriptures, doc...

This paper examined the relationship between Christianity and subjective wellbeing by embedding in a revised homeostatic model of (SWB) which integrates affective (homeostatically protected mood: content, happy excited), cognitive (self-esteem, optimism perceived control: primary control secondary control) experiential factors relating to SWB. In Christianity, God is creator lord life its doctr...

Contemporary forms of Pentecostalism, such as that of the Faith Movement, are often represented as inherently global, constituting a religion ‘made to travel’ and to missionize across the world. I argue that while much attention has been paid to proselytization as a catalyst in encouraging transnational activities among such Christians, more analysis is needed of how Pentecostalists represent e...

I The Jewish-Christian debate goes back to the origins of Christianity. Jews are portrayed in the New Testament as questioning both Jesus’ messianic status as well as the claim that he was resurrected from the dead. As adherers to a religion which emerged from Judaism, early Christians found it necessary to write polemical treatises attacking Judaism, probably more for purposes of self-definiti...

Voting is perceived as free and rational. Citizens make whatever choices they wish, shielded from external influences by the privacy of the voting booth. The current paper, however, suggests that a subtle source of influence—polling places themselves—can impact voting behavior. In two elections, people voting in churches were more likely to support a conservative candidate and a ban on same-sex...

There has been little recent research in Europe exploring the relationship between religion and health. In Northern Ireland previous analysis has tended to divide the population dichotomously as Catholic and Protestant, ignoring the diversity inherent in the Protestant community. This study used a census-based longitudinal study of the enumerated population with five-years follow-up (covering t...

Thanks to the work of politics and religion scholars, we now know a lot about the relationship between religion and voting in American presidential general elections. However, we know less about the influence of religion on individual vote choice in presidential primaries. This article fills that gap by exploring the relationship between religion and candidate preference in the 2008 and 2012 Re...

Christians in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, make up approximately five percent national population. The Christian community Burma includes both Catholics and Protestants, Baptists predominate among Protestants. In this article I argue that twenty-first century Protestant Burmese fulfill aspects a “twofold legacy” bequeathed to them by Adoniram Judson, first Baptis...

This investigation examines how self-identified Christians in the Midwest U.S. understand and work for social justice, with a focus on their process of social justice development and the role of religious congregations in promoting social justice. Using a grounded theory analysis of 15 in-depth interviews, results indicated multiple understandings of social justice such as meeting basic needs, ...

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...