the study has investigated the missionaries' attitude towards the function of weblog and sms, and also the amount of using them. the fields of sending sms and also the aim of creating the weblog have been studied too. for this purpose, the concept of religious media has been used for the meaning of using media to achieve religious goals and ideals. these two media have been chosen for thei...

OBJECTIVE To explore existential meaning-making in an ethnic-majority subgroup with mental ill health and to increase knowledge about the importance of gaining access to such information in mental healthcare. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and systematic text condensation analysis. PARTICIPANTS 17 devote Christians with an ethnic-Swedish background, 12 women and 5 men, 3...

the article provides a critical assessment of the more recent literature that relies on theoretical frameworks such as post modernism and globalization to deal with national identity, ethnicity and cultural mobility. explaining sensitive and complicated issues such as identity requires the extensive use of the native historical, cultural and sociological sources related to the iranian experienc...

In Scandinavia, religious schools are both rarer and more controversial than in many other European countries the United States. Scandinavian politicians fear that these foster social division undermine personal autonomy. However, researchers have not paid much attention to political concerns. this study, ethical autonomy of students at is scrutinized compared experiences non-religious based on...

in this paper more than compering qadi abdul-jabbar and swinburne wives on different issues about miracles, we try to show the similarity between presuppositions and methods that they use in debating about miracles. we think that similar presuppositions and methods will lead to same wives. we try to show these similarities in tree section: presuppositions, methods and attitudes.in presuppositio...

This qualitative study examines how the agency of religious Druze women in Israel affects professional identity and affiliation these, turn, shape gender perception their community, especially fields education employment. Through semi-structured interviews with twenty women, identifies factors that promote or inhibit increasing legitimacy community discourse for integration higher quality The m...

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of assessing and identifying effective factors on marital intimacy, this study was conducted to investigate the predictive role of religious attitude and family problem solving among women. Methods: This is a descriptive-correlational study in which 2860 women in Iran were selected by random cluster sampling and then assessed by Marital Int...

development of technology is one of the main factors of political change of the modem world. a technological change could change nature and structure of political arrangements of the society. this restructuring of the society could happen by economic and professional change, by creating new division of labor, by creating new classes and new resources, and so on. in this article, first of all, a...

This article examines the unique risks associated with Islamic financial institutions and the secular state’s reticence to directly regulate their religious dimension. It argues that the state’s method of regulating the Islamic financial industry ignores special reputational risks associated with the religious and cultural distinctiveness of Islamic banks. The Financial Services Authority (FSA)...