Religious belief and practices are meditative to assist people in confronting problems an unrestrained prospect that absorbs connection something greater, sacred, inspirational intensively tied a deep sense of entity. It is integral dimension individual's life recognized as critical factor their physical, psycho-social, cultural health which deal with potentially threatening chronic diseases li...

Four- to 6-year-old children (N = 131) heard religious or nonreligious stories and were questioned about their belief in the reality of the story characters and events. Children had low to moderate levels of belief in the characters and events. Children in the religious story condition had higher levels of belief in the reality of the characters and events than did children in the nonreligious ...

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...

Despite claims about the universality of religious belief, whether religiosity scales have the same meaning when administered inter-subjectively-or translated and applied cross-culturally-is currently unknown. Using the recent "Supernatural Belief Scale" (SBS), we present a primer on how to verify the strong assumptions of measurement invariance required in research on religion. A comparison of...

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 ...

Four studies examined whether awareness of mortality intensifies belief in supernatural agents among North Americans. In Studies 1 and 2, mortality salience led to more religiosity, stronger belief in God, and in divine intervention. In Studies 3 and 4, mortality salience increased supernatural agent beliefs even when supernatural agency was presented in a culturally alien context (divine Buddh...