This study examines the relationships among religiosity, affiliation with Islam, and attitudes toward wife beating. A series of individual- country-level mixed modeling is performed on a sample 45,268 subjects in 37 countries. The derived from World Values Survey. results show that Islam related to an accepting attitude beating regardless demographics; Muslim’s gender inequality; or country’s a...

OBJECTIVE to present a brief history of Spiritism, the vision of epilepsy by Spiritism, and the potential of spirituality and religiosity care as complementary and coadjutants treatments in epilepsy. METHOD this is a brief review about the impact of faith, spirituality, and religiosity, particularly the Spiritism philosophy as complementary treatment to neurological disorders (particularly fo...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop an educational leadership model based on the teachings of Islam. This research was fundamentally-applied and in terms of data collection method, it was a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) exploratory research. Methodology: The statistical population in the qualitative part of the research were Islamic experts who using purposive sampling method, 12 ...

We develop a model of social signalling of religiosity and cooperative behaviour in religious organizations. The model embeds a ritual-based religious organization in which signalling arises through the use of costly rituals, and a discipline-based religious organization in which such signalling occurs through the monitoring of past behaviour. We use this framework to contrast -positively and n...

In the past twenty years there has been increasing attention given to the relationships between various dimensions of religiosity and mental health. By now several thousand studies have been conducted demonstrating positive associations between the two (Koenig, King and Carson 2012). On balance those who are more religious have better indices of mental health. The vast majority have been cross-...