We used the three latest rounds of religion module International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief God. restricted our sample affiliated with majority Protestant churches unaffiliated analyzed trends toward disaffiliation disbelief Then, we studied association between confidence churches, religious/secular upbringing, demographic ...

Historically, the development of God concepts in human cognition has been explained anthropomorphically. In other words, for children especially, God is a big, superhuman who lives in the sky. Recent empirical research on the development of these concepts may suggest an alternative hypothesis. In this paper, we review this research and outline the "preparedness hypothesis," which suggests that ...

islam has particular style and doctrine about health and treatment that makes it different from other treatment methods. the aim of this article is studying the principles and methods of islamic health treatment and the attitudes of this religion toward appearance of disease caused by material or immaterial factors. this article is review type and it is presented by descriptive analysis method ...

In this article I argue that the effects of sin for our cognition of God primarily consist in a lack of knowledge by acquaintance of God and the relevant ensuing propositional knowledge. In the course of my argument, I make several conceptual distinctions and offer analyses of 1 Cor 13:9–12 and Rom 1:18–23. As it turns out, we have ample reason to think that sin has had and still has profound c...

Islam has particular style and doctrine about health and treatment that makes it different from other treatment methods. The aim of this article is studying the principles and methods of Islamic health treatment and the attitudes of this religion toward appearance of disease caused by material or immaterial factors. This article is review type and it is presented by descriptive analysis met...

ALTHOUGH differing in their views about a number of issues with regard to the Book of Job, m general scholars have agreed that Job's replies to Yahweh in 40:4-5 and 42:2-6 indicate that Job repented, or at least relented and changed his attitude. Even scholars such as K. Fullerton, C. G. Jung, and D. A. Robertson, who reject the possibility that Job could have repented, never. theless agree tha...

As an extension of a concept known as tawheed,* nothing lies outside of The Jurisdiction of Divine Intervention; nor is God the deist’s watchmaker, winding up reality and watching various Newtonian-like mechanized processes play themselves out. Once this latter deist notion is embraced, and given a particular subtle type of human propensity for self-exaltation (a type which is by definition not...

A Practice Example of Object Oriented Programming Education Using WebCT Hiroyoshi WATANABE Kumiko TAKAI Shigeru SASAKI Masayuki ARAI and Shigeo TAKEI †School of Science and Engineering, Teikyo University Toyosatodai 1-1, Utsunomiya, 320-8551 Japan E-mail: †{hiro,kumiko,sasaki,arai,takei}@ics.teikyo-u.ac.jp Abstract This paper describes an introductory object oriented programming course using We...

Business practice and literature frequently advocate more business oriented roles for management accountants. The aim of this study is to examine reasons for management accountants to act as business partners and to analyze corresponding performance effects. More specifically, two research questions are investigated: (i) why do management accountants act as business partners, and (ii) are busin...

If God did not exist – people would invent one! The development of human civilization requires mechanisms promoting cooperation and social order. One of these mechanisms is based on the idea that everything we do is seen and judged by God – bad deeds will be punished, while good ones will be rewarded. The Information Age has now fueled the dream that God-like omniscience and omnipotence can be ...