abstract background: induced abortion is an important medical issue. knowledge and attitude of midwives regarding legal and religious commandments on induced abortion can be useful in confronting this issue. the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of midwives of isfahan regarding these rules and to find their relationship with demographic characteristics. materials and m...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the relationship between religious differences (i.e. religious diversity and tolerance diversity), on the one hand, and dysfunctional intergroup conflicts, on the other. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative research design is used, through which the paper examines 47 public schools in India. Findings Religious diversity, that is, the distribution of hete...

nasir khosraw ghobadiani balkhi, the iranian poet and philosopher in 5th century (hegira) has poetry and prose works and he has employed to teach religious. his poetry is enjoying of divine inspiration and is overfilled of theology and preaching and asceticism. his prose works has written about philosophy issues and religious points and interpretations of religious commandments and worships. he...

business of goods is one of the necessities of social life. man has produced the money to facilitate the business, which simultaneously with the development of social and economic life has taken different forms. intrinsic value of some money and relative value of the other and the role of the inflation in decrease in value of money cause the different religious commandments. that is why, for co...

In various articles spanning the past thirty years, Jesse Choper has argued for a rather indulgent approach to laws adopted to favor one or more religions.' According to Choper, intentional government preferences for religion should survive Establishment Clause review as long as they are not likely to "impair religious freedom,"2 by which he means not likely to make people either (1) act contra...

The ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Israel is highly homogeneous and is virtually isolated from the surrounding secular society. Nevertheless, in recent years some openness to psychotherapy has emerged. In this paper the first author, herself a member of the ultra-orthodox community and a psychotherapist, presents a series of analyses and discussions of the major issues raised by therapy amo...

ijtihad, jurisprudence in religion and imitation that is fojiowing a just religious leader in divine commandments, are fundamental issues in islamic society and are necessary for continuation of divine religion. this article turns to understanding the conception, necessity, beginning and evolution of ijtihad and imitation (taqlid), if s rational and traditional reasons using quran, and also ref...

The increasing potential to combine devices with different capabilities and purposes leads to new security issues. Traditional security prescribes what has to be prohibited and is thus too inflexible to cope with a constantly changing context. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to formulating security policies in UbiComp based on the notion of commandments. In essence, commandmen...