during the safavid rule, due to the close relationship between the government and the structure of religious institution, the economic life of many religious leaders was based on the bureaucratic salaries and aids granted by the government. however, after the fall of safavids and transfer of the shia scientific and juridico-religious centres (i.e. seminaries) from iran to the holy cities of ira...

Korean Americans (KAs) with psychiatric service needs underutilizes the mainstream mental health services in United States (US). Barriers to mental health service access among KAs reflect their unique heritage and culture. More than two-thirds of KAs identify themselves as Christians, and Korean clergy have influential roles in daily lives of vast majority of KAs. By working with the Korean cle...

Abstract We use data from the new and nationally representative National Survey of Religious Leaders, supplemented with 2018 General Social Survey, to examine extent which clergy are politically aligned people in their congregations. Two assessments alignment—clergy reports how political views compare held by most congregations, comparisons between lay voting preferences 2016 election—yield sam...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES African Americans are disproportionately affected by ESRD, but few receive a living donor kidney transplant. Surveys assessing attitudes toward donation have shown that African Americans are less likely to express a willingness to donate their own organs. Studies aimed at understanding factors that may facilitate the willingness of African Americans to become organ don...

Purpose: Researchers have documented lower health-related quality of life (HRQL) in rural areas. This study seeks to identify factors that can explain this disparity. Methods: United Methodist clergy in North Carolina (N = 1,513) completed the SF-12 measure of HRQL and items on chronic disease diagnoses, health behaviors, and health care access from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surve...

The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest’s beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by b...

The purpose of the pilot project is to develop a methodology for: operationally specifying clergy and chaplain interventions at a level of detail that will enable replication by other clergy and chaplains; developing consensus definitions of the constructs and terminology used in describing pastoral and spiritual care interventions; establishing the infrastructure of procedures for managing the...

The shift in emphasis from the study of Information system to the Individual as the finder and user of information, has over the years received unprecedented attention among librarians and information professionals as indicated by the overwhelming number of researches carried out in the area. Various groups ranging from professionals to unskilled workers have been studied to identify their info...