1. The BHA is the principal organisation representing the interests of the large and growing population of ethically concerned but non-religious people living in the UK. It exists to support and represent people who seek to live good and responsible lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. It is committed to human rights and democracy, and has a long history of active engagement in wor...

Money demand determinants vary in every economy. There are many studies about Iran money demand function, which employed different variables and estimation methods. In this study, broad money (M2) is dependent variable and GDP, interest rate, exchange rate and household religious costs are descriptive variables. Household religious costs (urban and rural) are included in Iran money demand funct...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to add to the understanding of humility-based economic development and entrepreneurship among the Amish – a religious group – in the USA, whose culture values asceticism, frugality, thrift and work, as well as humility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an ethnographic research study. Findings – Amish adults teach their young that work is pl...

The Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case is in many ways a sequel to the Court’s 2012 decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).1,2 Like the 2012 case, the decision was decided by a 5-to-4 vote, but in the initial ACA decision, Chief Justice John Roberts acted to “save” the ACA.3 Not this time. Then the watchword was “broccoli,” as in forcing people to eat it;...

Taking Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on early human uniqueness in relation to symbolic or religious awareness as a starting point, this article raises question whether an implicit connection between humanity and the capacity for religiosity had anything say about how one could evaluate so-called other’s religion their humanity. Does recognition of full demand equal religiosity, are these separab...

Case Studies Analysis of the experience of land parcels partially taken for high­ way right-of-way ordinarily involves investigation of individual takings — the case study approach. For example, Figure 1 shows what happened from a period before the highway went through a property until a part of the remainder is sold. When this happens, when any part of the remainder is sold, it becomes possibl...

the school of tafkik rejects reason and philosophical arguments to understand religious propositions and religious beliefs. they hold that the philosophical approach to understand religion is inconsistent to revealed religion. thus, the only true way to understand religion is revealed one. the purpose of this paper is to examine the approach of the school of tafkik and its arguments. in this ar...

own views?-which are implicitly if not explicitly revealed in almost eveiy chapter?as to the need for mental nursing to be looked upon as a religious vocation rather than a professional career, and she feels it to be significant that in mental hospitals where the nursing and administrative control is in the hands of Religious Orders (usually in such cases the Rev. Mother is entirely responsible...

current societies are not only faced with social, economic, political and cultural problems but also with environmental crises and this forced many social scientists to study environmental values. some previous studies have shown that environmental values and moral commitment toward the environment are rooted in a specific worldview and religious education. the purpose of this study is to inves...