OBJECTIVES Patients' religious communities often influence their medical decisions. To date, no study has examined what physicians think about the responsibilities borne by religious communities to provide guidance to patients in different clinical contexts. METHODS We mailed a confidential, self-administered survey to a stratified random sample of 1504 US primary care physicians (PCPs). Crit...

the topic of citizenship is an issue that many scholars from different point of views have paid attention to this concept. we can see and recognize some dimensions of citizenship in the works of greek and islamic philosophers. in this article, we examine the most important dimension of citizenship i.e. behavior. under the light of this research, as we can see in islamic religious texts, there a...

This contribution investigates the concept “community” as a previously underexplored dimension of multiple religious belonging (MRB). A review MRB approach to multireligiosity reveals there has been paid relatively little attention community influence and fluid, non-dualistic styles belonging. We argue that these cannot be accounted for by conventional understandings assume “World Religions Par...

Legal analysis of church-state relations in European countries presupposes a concept or at least a notion of the state. The concept is largely avoided in contemporary legal and political theory. Nonetheless, Western and Central European Continental legal systems, including the Croatian Draft Law on the Legal Position of Religious Communities of April 2002, tacitly presuppose the idea that the s...

Religious belief in its most ideal form can be seen as a powerful force to create purposive transformations by transmitting ecologically positive habit of practice and attitudes of mind to succeeding generations that share similar religious beliefs. This concept assumes even greater significance on considering howmore than half of the world’s population embraces some sort of religious beliefs t...

Participation in religious services is associated with numerous aspects of human flourishing, including happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. Evidence for the effects of religious communities on these flourishing outcomes now comes from rigorous longitudinal study designs with extensive confounding...

Religious communities are important sources of bridging and bonding social capital, which, in turn, have varying implications for perceptions of social cohesion in rural areas. In particular, as well as cultivating cohesiveness more broadly, the bridging social capital associated within mainline religious communities may represent an especially important source of support for the social integra...