background: available evidence shows that religious attitudes have noticeable effects on all aspects of human life. the purpose of this study was to evaluate religious attitude of freshmen at school of health, isfahan university of medical sciences (isfahan, iran). methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study in 2010, religious attitude of 200 students was assessed by a reliable and valid r...

Religious education has been an issue of social and political debate in many countries but mostly in countries where people from different national, cultural and religious origins live. Religious identity is a core element of a person’s identity that constitutes a crucial right of the person and its personal freedom. Every country and every state should protect the right of its citizens to exer...

As a theologian working in Western Europe, religious plurality is unavoidable for me. It seems that our context can no longer be identified in terms of secularization. Competing worldviews and complementing religious stories dictate the religious landscape (and increasingly so, due to migration and global communication). The religions present in my country, however, are not monolithic and stabl...

since the properly religious training of children is the main concern of many religious families in modern era, so the importance and necessity of this research is clear. this paper does research on different dimensions of children's prayer and their forcing to prayer by parents and criterions and range of this forcing according to time of validity and parents' authorized and unauthor...

abstract purpose: this research aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational spirituality and productivity of librarians and library staff in libraries of shiraz university and also determining the influential and the most predictive indicator to improve employee productivity. methodology: to collect data two questionnaires were used; the first one measured the persons spiritual...

in the abbasid era, chieftainship (niqābat) was a politico-religious institution with social functions. since the early periods of the samanids era, the alavids’ chieftainship in nayshābūr, capital of khurāsān, had been turned over to the ḥusaynī alavids of banū zubāra, but amīr nūḥ b. manṣūr sāmānī (ruled 366-378) handed over this post to a ḥasanī alavid, whose descendants became the hereditar...