When we study the history of life, it easy to see that life has evolved over time. The fossils of creatures that lived before us faithfully record the innovations and changes leading to the diversity of life that we observe today. The history of religion is much shorter, yet it too has left a fossil record revealing some of the innovations and changes leading to the diversity of religions which...

praise of the prophet (pbuh) is one of the issues that poets were interested in it. some of the diaspora christian poets sang poems in praise of the prophet (s) in the modern era, especially elias farahat, and called on arabs to tolerance, brotherhood and unity. what are the ideas and motives that led to the praise of the prophet? in fact, some of the diaspora poets believe the unity of religio...

PAN 2017 Author Profiling task include two target predictions, one is to predict the gender of text authors and second is to predict the language variety. The presented approach analyzed trends and topics followed in training dataset e.g. Authors discussing Politics, Tech, Religion, Nature etc. in their respective tweets. Along with that single words and word pair frequencies were also taken in...

Services in the information society allow automatically and routinely collecting large amounts of data. Those data are often used to train classification rules in view of making automated decisions, like loan granting/denial, insurance premium computation, etc. If the training datasets are biased in what regards sensitive attributes like gender, race, religion, etc., discriminatory decisions ma...

I began my study of religion as a hobby years before I formally entered the academic world. During my informal studies I never gave much thought to just what religion is. I gleaned the bookstore shelves in sections marked " Religion, " never considering why some books appeared on these shelves and others appeared on the " New Age and Occult " section. My study of religion was simple — my concep...

This generic qualitative study explores the perspective of Malaysian teachers regarding the constraints of the current school-based sexual and reproductive health education in secondary schools of Klang-Valley Malaysia. For this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with twenty eight science teachers of government schools. The majority of participants named the teaching strategy and capacit...

As a temporary emotional situation and a relatively stable state of being happy (subjective happiness level), happiness can be considered. In fact, people with high subjective happiness level think more positively than others. There are many factors with potential positive or negative effects on happiness such as: the (dark and milky) chocolate, Yoga, outdoor group walks in the natural en...

Since the revolutions of 1989, increased public interest in religion across the former Soviet bloc has helped to generate new topics of investigation in a variety of disciplines, from history to sociology to literary studies. Sociocultural anthropology has been no exception. At the 2003 Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago, a number of anthropologists who have worked ...

OF THESIS THE EFFECT OF VICTIM RELIGION ON JUROR PERCEPTIONS OF HATE CRIMES The present study investigated mock juror perceptions of hate crimes in the courtroom, specifically whether a victim’s religion (Atheist, Christian, Jewish, or Muslim) influenced the likelihood that a mock juror would render a hate crime verdict. I employed a mock juror methodology where participants read an assault tri...