BACKGROUND Violence against women in families is the most common form of violence against them. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of domestic violence and its effects on married women of Ilam. METHODS In this descriptive-sectional research, 334 married women referred to medical health centers in Ilam were selected to participate using a random sampling method. After ob...

in societies where religious diversity is there, living peacefully just in the shadow of religious tolerance and the recognition of all religions, may. lack of religious tolerance has consequences such as religious violence. also, religious tolerance leaves a significant effect on the political attitude of individuals. the research question has two parts: shiite religious tolerance than the cou...

In three samples containing Buddhist and Christian participants from several nations, participants of both religions manifested a generally similar relationship between religiosity and intolerance. In all three samples, devotional religiosity (e.g. prayer frequency, faith devotion), was strongly correlated with coalitional religiosity (e.g. organized religious attendance, fundamentalism). Yet d...

W ife beating, the most widespread form of domestic violence, has adverse consequences on the health and wellbeing of women and is a major cause of disability and death in many countries. In the past few years, it has been widely reported in developing countries’ contexts, where patriarchal family norms are common. In the Middle East, patriarchal gender relations reinforced by traditional cultu...

Abstract This essay argues that the deontological view of morality is connected to extreme and massive forms violence through a kind phenomenological necessity. In first main section, I examine one family such violence, which usually comes under label “religious violence”. argue it not religious element but disqualification context from realm justification characterizes violence. second phenome...

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hamas and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of government provision. The sacrifices these groups demand are economically efficient (as in Iannaccone (1...

On a general level, the article analyzes how clash of unconditional claims between secular rationales and religious narratives is prone to engender violence. To provide this discussion with material evidence, case destruction Buddhas Bamiyan its media coverage put under scrutiny. The author shows marker “religious violence”, otherness, irrationality was (re)constructed in context. In last analy...

Social service professionals are more frequently identifying children who witness adult domestic violence as victims of that abuse. This article expands common definitions of how children witness violence, and adult domestic violence in particular. Over 80 research papers were reviewed and a variety of behavioral, emotional, cognitive and physical functioning problems among children were found ...