Genetically-based reconstructions of the history of pig domestication in Europe are based on two major pillars: 1) the temporal changes of mitochondrial DNA lineages are related to domestication; 2) Near Eastern haplotypes which appeared and then disappeared in some sites across Europe are genetic markers of the first Near Eastern domestic pigs. We typed a small but informative fragment of the ...

In 1949 Robert B. Heilman published the essay "Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark': Science as Religion."^ The year of the Soviet Union's first successful test of an atomic bomb and four yeiirs after the United States' use of atomic weapons against the Japanese, 1949 was a year inclined to provoke concern about the practice of science as religion. Heilman's reading of Aylmer as a tragic overreacher who...

Abstract Against the background of successful right-wing populist movements in recent years, a question arises as to whether democratic political culture remains stable Europe’s democracies. The EVS 2017 confirms that high level legitimacy is still attached democracy, but there are differences support for current system. In Eastern Europe, we find strong openness alternative anti-democratic sys...

OBJECTIVE Studies suggest that American Muslim women underutilize mammography. While religion has a strong influence upon Muslim health behaviors, scant research has examined how religion-related beliefs inform Muslim women's intention for mammography. Our study identifies and examines such beliefs. METHODS Muslim women aged 40 years and older sampled from mosques participated in focus groups...

The article explores the Froben prints stored at Rare Books Department of Library Russian Academy Science (Biblioteka Akademii Nauk) in Saint Petersburg. For three generations 16th century, Basel printers Frobens influenced European intellectual life like no other publishing establishment, contributing to spread early Latin and Greek Christian literature, which determined both development theol...

David Cook is a Professor of religion in the Department Religious Studies at Rice University, specializing Islam. He completed his undergraduate degree Hebrew University Jerusalem 1994. later received M.A. 1998 and Ph.D. with study titled “The Beginnings Islam Syria during Umayyad Period”, which he prepared under supervision Fred Donner, Walter Kaegi, Patricia Crone from Chicago (Department Nea...

"Yoko Aoshima (ed.), Entangled Interactions between Religion and National Consciousness in Central Eastern Europe. (Lithuanian Studies without Borders). Brookline: Academic Press, 2020. 198 p. ISBN 978-164-4693-56-8" published on 30 Nov 2021 by Brill | Schöningh.

BACKGROUND Previous data suggest a favourable association between religion and mortality. METHODS We investigated the association between selected religious groups and all-cause mortality in 1627 eastern Finnish men aged 42-60 years during 1984-1989 as a part of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD). RESULTS Eastern Orthodox men had a 5.1-fold (95% confidence interval ...