in this article, the writer, exploring the most important theories of psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists about the origin of religion and roots of religiosity, tries to show that there is no ultimate agreement and explanation about these questions and that the currently working theories are suffering from grave theoretical and/or empirical shortcomings. the writer, however, argues ...

Evolution is a core concept of biology, and yet many college biology students do not accept evolution because of their religious beliefs. However, we do not currently know how instructors perceive their role in helping students accept evolution or how they address the perceived conflict between religion and evolution when they teach evolution. This study explores instructor practices and belief...

Culture may be thought of as a causal agent that affects the evolutionary process by uniquely human means. Religion, on the other hand, is considered a process of revelation and contains the concept of the "faithful" who receive the message of revelation. Culture permits the "self-conscious evaluation of human possibilities" and therefore presents a device for increasing human control over spec...

In a recent work inspired by Borgman's [1] approach to exploring issues at the intersection of information and reality, Chapman [2] outlined a framework for thinking about issues at the intersection of information and religion, viz. information about religion, information for religion, and information as religion. This framework might be complemented by another in which the same issues – that i...

social capital as a resource that may be used by individuals, groups and communities to achieve the desired results is considered. social capital is the concept that in many cases by social analysts used to describe a wide range of social processes and helps to understand why some people groups and social classes to the political, economic and social achieve more positive than others, are to be...

when constantine announced christianity as the official religion of the roman empire in 14th century, a great deal of attention has been attracted to the relationship between religion and state and much literature has appeared so far. the literature has not much been directly refered to social scientists, being based on a christian interpretation of religious societies and a western concept of ...