one of the fundamental policies of the prophet in the field of education and establishing an ideal society based on religious teachings is the issue of ‘naming’. in order to build culture and identity, along with the qur’anic commands, the messenger of allah aimed – in all relevant areas such as selecting beautiful names for children, refining and changing adults’ names, nicknaming, reforming a...

Existing neuroimaging studies have shown that religion, as a subjective culture, can influence self-referential processing. However, the time course of this impact remains unclear. The present study examined how Christians process their own names, the name of their religious leader (i.e., Jesus), and a famous person's name (i.e., Yao Ming). Behavioral and EEG data were recorded while the partic...

discussing fundamental problems of sexuality and its related respects could help religious scholars to find out a deeper understanding and analysis of islamic teachings. the problem of hijab in the islamic teachings is investigated concerning its various aspects. in this article, the celestial reality of hijab in the structure of the names of allah is analyzed. the approach of this article is i...

BACKGROUND Studies on ethnic variations in health have played an important role in aetiological and health services research. Most routine datasets, however, do not include information on ethnicity. South Asians, one of the largest minority ethnic groups in Britain, have distinctive names that also allow differentiation of the main sub-groups with their important differences in health-related e...

graffiti as one of the social phenomenon has a very long record. however, the graffiti in modern civilization has been put forth as a media. in this article, efforts have been made to study the graffiti from the linguistic perspective. in this research, 2929 graffiti from different districts in the north, south, east, west and center of tehran have been registered and then extracted and analyze...

Abstract We add to the current debate on ethno-religious discrimination by studying what extent in wedding venue business is based religious or ethnic grounds. Do two reinforce each other? Does explicit mentioning of a non-religious help reduce secularized society? draw field experiments Germany and Austria. sent 805 valid emails venues. randomly varied traits, names (Arabic-origin native-origi...

The study highlights the complex cultural religious factors affecting epilepsy and a need for integrated home-based care services. Two focus group discussions exploring home-based carers' (HBCs) perspectives on epilepsy were conducted using a semi-structured focus group interview guide, which was based on Kleinman's explanatory model framework. The audio-recorded data were transcribed verbatim,...

Academic Year: 2013-2014 Date of Report Submission: August 9, 2014 Name of Department/Unit/Program: Honors Program Name of Contact Person: Rose Spalding Names of Assessment Committee Members: Jennifer Conary (English), Mike Edwards (First Year Program), Nancy Grossman (Honors), Peter Hastings (CDM), Martha Martinez-Firestone (Sociology), Chris Mount (Religious Studies), and Rose Spalding (Honor...