OBJECTIVES Research has been oriented toward elucidating the links between religion and mental health. The purpose of this article is to further our knowledge in this area by examining the effect of religious activity on depressive symptomatology among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer. We also test whether these effects differ between Blacks and Whites. METHODS We use two waves ...

The Brief RCOPE is a 14-item measure of religious coping with major life stressors. As the most commonly used measure of religious coping in the literature, it has helped contribute to the growth of knowledge about the roles religion serves in the process of dealing with crisis, trauma, and transition. This paper reports on the development of the Brief RCOPE and its psychometric status. The sca...

a r t i c l e i n f o In view of the substantial number of recent studies on relationships between religious involvement and constructive or destructive behavior among adolescents, it is time to consolidate knowledge about these relationships through a meta-analysis. The meta-analysis conducted in this study involves 40 studies published from 1995 to 2009, covering adolescents with an average a...

A new cognitive approach to religion is bringing fresh insights to our understanding of how religious concepts are maintained, acquired and used to motivate and direct actions. This approach suggests that seemingly extraordinary thoughts and behaviours can be supported by quite ordinary cognition and may thus be termed 'natural'. Simultaneously, this research is expanding the domain of concepts...

Bu makalenin amacı; güncel olarak uygulanan 2018 Din Kültürü ve Ahlak Bilgisi Dersi Öğretim Programı (Ortaöğretim 9, 10, 11 12. Sınıflar) kazanımlarının, 21. yüzyıl becerilerinden olan bilgi okuryazarlığı, medya okuryazarlığı teknoloji becerilerinin geliştirilmesine katkısını tespit etmektir. doğrultuda öncelikle becerileri arasında yer alan bilgi, kavramsal çerçeveleri ele alınmış, bu becerile...

The major objective of this research was to assess the impact of corruption upon the prevalent religious values in Peshawar. The conceptual framework comprise of perception of religious values as independent variable, and corruption perception as dependent variable. The objectives were to find out people’s perception, causes and institutional role regarding corruption and social values, and sug...

Don Cupitt’s version of religious non-realism based as it is on linguistic constructivism, radical relativism and the view that culture forms human nature has been attacked with devastating effect by realists in the last few years. I argue that there is another strand in Cupitt’s thinking, his biological naturalism, that supports a different version of religious non-realism and that he failed t...

according to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. this article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...

this paper aims to discuss the possibility of juxtaposition of critical thinking and religious experience, as an approach for religious education, and introduce its educational outcomes. a deductive research method has been used to theoretically discuss the possibility of combination of these two concepts in religious education and its results. religious education of iranian educational system ...