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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Religious Belief"”.
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Fideism, Evidentialism, and the Epistemology of Religious Belief
… - the view that one is justified in holding a belief if and only if that belief is based on sufficient undefeated evidence. Recently, John Bishop and C. Stephen Evans have each forwarded new theories of fideism that oppose evidentialism. This dissertation examines these two theories, raising …
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Religious Belief, Coping, and Mental Health in Seventh-day Adventists
<p>The present study examines religious belief, coping style, and social support influences on psychological adjustment in 401 Seventh-day Adventists. Based on cross cultural psychology guidelines, Adventist Sabbath and eschatology belief measures were created and integrated into a religious coping …
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Where worlds collide: The English criminal law and religious belief
… to dealing with the special circumstances of the religious defendant. In particular, there is evidence that the criminal law does not consistently meet the core standards of certainty in the law, due respect for religious belief, and non-discrimination. Whether the religious interest is raised …
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A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
… is a critical comparison of the accounts of religious belief proposed by<br/>William James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasize<br/>the subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly little<br/>comparative work has been done in this …
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A Theory of Contextual Implication and Its Application to an Analysis of Religious Belief
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COMFORTABLE EXPLORATION: AN EXAMINATION OF THE LINK BETWEEN ATTACHMENT ANXIETY AND EMERGING ADULT RELIGIOUS BELIEF
… it an important period for the examination of religious exploration. Attachment theory postulates that a more secure attachment helps to facilitate exploration (Fredrickson, 2001; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2002). As attachment theory has been applied to religion, it has been argued that the internal …
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Influences of openness and identity style on orientations to religious belief: A proposed integrative model
<p>Religions differ in their relative emphasis on beliefs and rituals. Christianity is a belief-oriented religion, but Christians differ in their orientation to beliefs. People with an Intrinsic orientation live by their beliefs, while those with an Extrinsic orientation use the religious group for …
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Medical Developments and Religious Belief with Special Reference to Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
… smallpox, about 1720, seems to have been met by religious objections from some hyper-Calvinist sources - particularly in Scotland - but this opposition had almost disappeared by the 19th century, and it did not recur on the introduction of cowpox vaccination by Jenner in 1798. Obstetric …
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Religious belief and the problems of cognitivity and commitment: A reappraisal based on contemporary philosophy of science
… theologians: a neo-positivist perspective that religious belief (RB) is not rational and a neo-Wittgensteinian perspective that RB may be rational but only as determined by criteria internal to RB. Both perspective sharply differentiate religion from science, maintaining that religious beliefs …
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The social brain in human and religious evolution: Elucidating the role of theory of mind in (non)religious belief
… theorists of religion have argued that religious beliefs are “natural” because they arise from normally functioning social cognitive capacities, especially Theory of Mind (ToM). Hence, attempts to explain atheism have relied heavily on the assumption that nonbelievers may have a …
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Religious belief and social control, with special reference to patterns of stability and change in classical Athens and ancient Egypt
… to the nature, form and implementation of the belief-systems concerned. The term 'pre-industrial society' is not a vague classification which can be stamped on an undifferentiated past. Certainly the ancient world' witnessed a great variety of systems. The main body, of this discussion is …
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Tinkering with technology and religion in the digital age : the effects of Internet use on religious belief, behavior, and belonging.
… how people think about and affiliate with religious traditions. Using data from Wave III of the Baylor Religion Survey (2010), I find that Internet use increases the likelihood of being religiously unaffiliated and weakens religious exclusivism. At the same time, I find that television …
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I’m a Believer – But I’ll Be Damned if I’m Religious : Belief and Religion in the Greater Copenhagen Area : A Focus Group Study
… a believer today, and 2) Can one be more or less religious shows that religion as a concept pertains to five distinct aspects; belief, routinized religion, religion-as-heritage, practice and tradition. While these aspects are in themselves not novel, it is interesting that these aspects do not …
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The development of scales for the assessment of religious belief and spirituality in Roman Catholic believers, their validation and relevance for mental health in circumstances of traumatic bereavement on September 11th 2001
Substantive understanding of religious belief hasn’t been explored within Catholicism. The study first investigates multi-faceted aspects of individual religious experience by the development of psychometric scales assessing sensitiveness to Catholicism, contents of Catholic belief and strength of …
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Faith positions: Re -reading gender, race, and Christianity in nineteenth -century American women's writing
… in which various modes of nineteenth-century religious belief are intertwined with the strained threads of an "American" national narrative. Specifically, I focus on the texts of four nineteenth-century American women---Jarena Lee, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Frances …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: Does Mother's Working Behaviour Make a Difference?
… children. We consider two measures of religion: religious belief and religious practice. Our bivariate probit model shows that a youth whose mother stayed at home during his childhood is more likely to have the same religious affiliation as her, even after controlling for various background …
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Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age North Central Eurasia
… inferred as evidence for symbolic expression of religious belief. This claim is evaluated in a variety of ways focusing on three themes: mobility, political structure and social complexity, and religious belief. This first attempt at continental scale expression of symbolic systems directly tied …
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The religious mind: An evolutionary argument for theological non-realism
… between theological realism, which holds that religious beliefs are about some aspect of mind-independent reality, and theological non-realism, which holds that religious beliefs are mind-dependent only. The most well-known exponent of theological non-realism is Don Cupitt who bases his …
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