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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"Religious Groups"”.
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College Student Vulnerability to Harmful Religious Groups Based on Perceptions.
… in an attempt to understand which, if any, groups of college students are susceptible to cult influence based on false perceptions. Religion is a powerful practice that, if used for the wrong reasons, can influence a person to dissolve social and financial relationships with family, friends, …
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Tracking emergent religious groups in the US and adherence over time.
Emergent religious groups are an innovative but chronically understudied and misunderstood realm of contemporary religion. This may be due to notorious difficulties encountered when estimating the size of populations involved with emergent religious groups at any given time. To address this …
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An investigation of state university provisions for liaison with student religious groups
… higher education institutions related to student religious groups and campus ministers. The study replicated research done by George Jones in 1968.The population of the study consisted of 509 four-year tax-assisted state colleges and universities in the United States but was later adjusted to 467 …
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Malcontents in the Middle: Uncertainty-Identity, Extreme Religious Groups and Leader Rhetoric
<p>Because religious extremism can set people on a path of aggression and violence toward others, sometimes in the form of terrorism (Moghaddam, 2005), identifying factors that increase susceptibility to religious extremism is essential to ending terrorism. One possible factor that acts as a …
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Socio-political challenges of marginal religious groups: the Sabbatean movement as a case study
Minority religious communities, like the Sabbateans, have often been labelled and marginalised by mainstream religions. At times, their leaders have been labelled as ‘false messiahs’ by society or the state. To what extent do states play a role in facilitating the integration of diverse groupings? …
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Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
… Hinduism. In general, most of the population is religious and devoted to a life of piety. On the one hand, the lives of women are affected by the prevailing patriarchy, religious practices, social and cultural norms. On the other hand, women are also influenced by the conscious interventions of …
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Collective identification in arab american emerging adults: does affirmation to ethnic, national, family and religious groups predict positive adjustment?
… though an individual can identify with several groups (Kiang, Yip, & Fuligni, 2008). The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships among theoretically significant ingroup identifications and their contributions to adjustment in Arab American emerging adults. The Inclusion of the …
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Do We Pray, or Do We Shoot? An interdisciplinary approach to reconcile polarized stances: Peace and defense church theological and practical responses to the threat of a mass shooting
… leverage that common ground to find ways the groups could collaborate on church safety. I observed three churches and conducted interviews at 14 churches. I reviewed academic literature about academics and law enforcement officers. The common ground I found between all groups was fear of …
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The Transformation of Aladura Christianity in Nigeria
… and Jos. In Nigeria, there are lots of different religious groups that compete for members and relevance. Among the different religious groups, the new Pentecostal churches’ use of media technologies makes them more visible all over the place, giving the impression that the Aladura Christianity is …
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Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties
… between affiliation with conservative religious groups and negative attitudes towards women’s labor force participation. Further, research has shown that women in conservative religious groups like evangelical Protestants and Mormons are less likely than others to enter the labor force …
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Visions and revisions: An exploratory investigation sketching the origins and growth of the evolving relationship between the church and recreation, 1872-1992
… of this study was to analyze how different religious groups perceived the historical development of the relationship between the Church and recreation from period 1872 to 1992.
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Posters, Propaganda, & Bloody Saturdays: Making China Christian: How Media & Missionaries Made China Christian
<p>This thesis investigates the role of religious groups and media in influencing the public perception of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang during the Second Sino-Japanese War.</p>
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Implications for the teaching of school science arising from certain religious attitudes toward scientific facts and theories
… science teachers, it was found that the minority religious groups and individuals in larger religious groups had these three main objections to the teaching of science in the public schools. 1. The schools should not teach that the earth is round since the Bible states that it has four corners. 2. …
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The Leader Factor: Patterns of Alcohol Use, Negative Consequences, and Alcohol-Related Beliefs for Leaders and Non-leaders of Student Organizations
… members of minority and ethnic organizations and religious and interfaith groups. From this total sample, 624 students were active in minority organizations only, 865 were involved in religious groups only, and 511 were active in both. Dependent variables were drawn from four questions on the Core …
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Religion and the economics of fertility in south India
… interplay between the economic, demographic and religious factors which influence women's age at first marriage, their adoption of contraception and their fertility, in a group of rural communities in southern India. In so doing, it also assesses possible implications for state-level population …
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Exploring the Earth Summit : findings of the Rio United Nations Conference on Environment and Development : implications for South Africa
… organisations, indigenous peoples, women's groups, youth and children, trade unions, business and industry, academics, religious groups and concerned individuals.
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
… understanding of the linkages between political/ religious groups and Newtonian natural philosophy in the early eighteenth century can be improved by extending current historical debate beyond existing scholarship on the politics of Newtonianism - scholarship which has sought to establish a close …
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Roman Catholic Hegemony and Religious Freedom : a Seventh-day Adventist assessment of Dignitatis Humanae.
Roman Catholic Hegemony and Religious Freedom sets forth the "Catholic hegemony" thesis, meaning the Church applies Dignitatis Humanae in different ways, depending upon extant political and religious conditions in a given country, --- in some cases to maintain its hegemony, and in others to …
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Role of disaffiliation from fundamentalism and authoritarian religions on mental health
Religious disaffiliates are the fastest growing religious group in the United States (Gallup, 2021). Religious fundamentalism and authoritarianism are often found in very conservative religious groups. This study sought to understand the relationship between religious disaffiliation, …
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… of both political culture (religion and sub-religious groups; region) and political structure (quota law; electoral systems; government type). The disaggregation of religion and sub-religious groups is one of the major contributions in explaining women's representation. The application of …
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