In this essay, I maintain that although atheism, minimally construed, consists simply of the belief there is no God or gods, atheists must embrace a secular worldview one kind another. Since they cannot be without worldview, develop an alternative to religious, especially theistic, worldviews which they, by implication, reject. Further, argue are, at very least, two options available and these ...

Mindfulness programs are increasingly popular on college campuses in the US, yet little is known about students’ perceptions and beliefs mindfulness: its origins, how it learned, functions, practitioners. Using methods from Cultural Consensus Theory (CCT), present study examined whether a cultural consensus mindfulness exists among this group what substantive content of that might be. College-a...

A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles...

Gradients of absolute binocular disparity across a slanted surface are often considered the basis for stereoscopic slant perception. However, perceived stereo slant around a vertical axis is usually slow and significantly under-estimated for isolated surfaces. Perceived slant is enhanced when surrounding surfaces provide a relative disparity gradient or depth step at the edges of the slanted su...

results: “Regarding girls, only for the entire sample, these is a secular decrease in the duration of physical inactivity”: This is unclear: girls versus entire sample? • This has now been amended. This sentence has now been clarified (pp. 2-3). Abstract: conclusions: younger cohort (1998-2000): should this not be (2008-2010)? • This has now been amended (p. 3, Line 7). conclusions: younger coh...

This article discusses the nature and extent of ideological predispositions Jakarta electorate. Using a survey random sample voting-aged population, this research attempts to explore how polarised voters are their proclivities related political alignment. The distribution map shows that generally divided on secularism economic dimensions. On secular dimension, Anies-Prabowo’s tend support large...

COMPUSTAT data on 12,000 firms for the years 1956–1992 indicate that large firms hold less cash as a percentage of sales than do small ones. Whether comparisons are made within or across industries, the elasticity of cash balances with respect to sales is about 0.75. Firms headquartered in counties with high wages hold more money for a given level of sales, a finding consistent with the idea th...

In this paper the author attempts an analysis of the current financial/economic crisis that is wider ranging and more fundamental than he has been able to find. For this purpose he reviews some social science literature that views the current crisis as an episode in the secular decline of the United States and more generally of the Western Democracies. The timidity of current reforms, which is ...

We construct a secular theory of a coplanar system of N-planets not involved in strong mean motion resonances, and which are far from collision zones. Besides the point-to-point Newtonian mutual interactions, we consider the general relativity corrections to the gravitational potential of the star and the innermost planet, and also a modification of this potential by the quadrupole moment and t...