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African religion and religion education
The concept of religion in South Africa has been distorted by religious and racial prejuidices. This problem is particularly evident in public schools South African schools have taught Christianity as the only authentic religion, in fact as the only truth. Black parents have not been given a choice …
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Religion, myth, and rationality : some of Habermas' views on religion
… of this thesis is Jurgen Habermas' views on religion, especially in his two volumes The Theory of Communicative Action. The introduction presents the sociological and the philosophical contexts in which Habermas' views may be understood. Part I is a reading of the main sections of The Theory …
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Arbeit, Religion, Ruf
Die Arbeit als Dienstmädchen stellte im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts die weitverbreitetste Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen dar. Oft erwies sie sich als die einzige Möglichkeit, trotz mangelnder Schulbildung und fehlender beruflicher Qualifikationen einen Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten. In der Regel …
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Religion and spirituality within the Sikh religion: how counselling psychologists can help
… aim of this study is to explore how Sikhs use religion and spirituality with coping. This was examined by exploring how Sikhs deal with stressful events and how these impacted on their wellbeing. The thesis was comprised of two parts. Study one comprised of the thematic analysis of …
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Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future
… departure from traditional African American religion because it is so different from its immediate predecessor-black Baptist religion. However, upon closer inspection Earthseed helps its followers deal the harsh realities of life because it acts as and has much in common with the religion …
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Religion-related discourse : a critical approach to non-religion in Edinburgh's Southside
… burgeoning body of contemporary research on ‘non-religion’ within the critical academic study of ‘religion’, and to explore the benefits of such a reframing for empirical research. I begin by critically introducing research on ‘non-religion’ and identifying a number of key problems which directly …
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Kant's philosophy of religion : the relationship between Ecclesiastical faith and reasoned religion
… that Kant makes an apparent contradiction in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone with respect to the relationship between reason and Scripture. At the outset of Religion Kant states that he aims to discover whether reason can be found to be compatible and at one with Scripture. Kant …
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Divine Democracy: Examining the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Civil Religion
… upon and provide a new interpretation of civil religion in the United States. In it, the history of civil religion from the 1960s, starting with Bellah, to the 2010s will be analyzed for any themes still used in the 2020s. Similarly, understanding what a religion is within this time frame will …
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Religion and differential justice.
… Framed by Weber's distinctions between religion of the privileged and religion of the disprivileged, three studies on the roles of religion and differential justice are included herein. First, using data collected among a random sample of U.S. adults at a time when incidents of …
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Religion in Contemplative Studies
… themselves) that what they are doing is not “religion;” that is, how do they define "religion" in order to situate their own work as non-religious academic inquiry? Second, in the course of my textual and ethnographic research on contemplative studies, it has become apparent that this field …
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Culture, Religion, and Homonegativity
<p>The purpose of this study was to connect possible factors that may influence homonegativity within an individual. Specifically, we hypothesized that a) high amounts of societal threats and high levels of tightness will predict orthodox orientation, which will be associated with higher levels of …
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Religion and the Adolescent
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Religion and differential justice.
… Framed by Weber's distinctions between religion of the privileged and religion of the disprivileged, three studies on the roles of religion and differential justice are included herein. First, using data collected among a random sample of U.S. adults at a time when incidents of …
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Religion and International Society - Approaches to Including Religion in the International Relations Research Agenda
Religion can unite and divide, it can lead to a strengthening or a weakening of identity and legitimacy. Religion can stoke conflicts but it can also pacify them – within societies and in international politics. Religion endures and it can exist independently of states, it can constitute them, and …
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Reaction Time: Sports and Religion
<p>Individuals attend to a variety of various stimuli on a daily basis and their brains decide what to attend to and what to tune out. How the brain chooses what is most important to pay attention to is decided with threat level, novelty, emotion, and other criteria. The current study looked at …
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Risk, Religion, and Islamic Microfinance
<p>This research design creates a framework in which the risk preferences and Islamic religiosity of Jordanian borrowers can be estimated. Specifically, this study highlights the different characteristics of conventional and Islamic microfinance borrowers. Although there is extensive literature on …
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Religion, Rewards, and Prosocial Behavior
<p>Researchers have long argued that religion increases prosocial behavior, but results are equivocal. Recent findings on priming religious concepts seem to show that religion drives prosociality. But here I suggest that these studies confound religion with anticipated rewards. I present the …
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