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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Religious Motivations"”.
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The influence of religious motivations on young people`s civic engagement
With respect to religious motivations for political participation and civic engagement, scholars have set their focus on social capital and the recruiting potential for volunteers inside religious communities. Less attention has been paid to individual religious impulses, but also to reasons for …
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Differing Religious Motivations are associated with Adolescent Health Behavior through Self-regulation
… demonstrated the physical and mental benefits of religiousness. However, how religiousness benefits health is not as well known. It has been proposed that self-regulation is the linking mechanism and the current study sought to confirm this theory. Furthermore, religious motivation has been found …
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A 17-year Longitudinal Study of Spiritual Development and Psychological Correlates in a Sample of College Students
… 1984, 1987 and 2001 data were collected on a religiously devout group of college students in an effort to better understand the process of religious development and the relationship between religiosity and mental health. This study analyzes that data by examining the stability of two different …
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Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
This thesis is a religious and social history of the life of Natchez, Mississippi Catholic activist Marjorie R. Baroni (1924-1986). The study examines Baroni's Catholic faith-driven activism as a counter-narrative to the dominant Protestant narratives of religious motivations in the greater civil …
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A dialectical discourse on Responsible Business Behaviour within Small Medium Enterprises: A Case Study of Pakistan
… in nature, driven more so by ethical than religious motivations. Furthermore, philosophical synergies were created between the A.R.T model and the normative construct consisting of Classical antiquities - Kant, Adam Smith and Machiavelli, which bridged the gap between theory and CSR driven …
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How Should Religious Fraud and Religious Undue Influence be Regulated by English Courts?
How should the law regulate religious influence motivating gifts? Should criminal fraud laws apply to religious representations? When do religious officials take advantage of adherents in making a financial gain? These are challenging questions that this thesis sets out to assess. The focus is upon …
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Investigating the relationship between religious motives and rhetorical activism : an ethnographic study of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.
This ethnographic study investigates the religiously-motivated rhetorical action of the central office staff of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), a research-based nonprofit project of Baylor University. Knowing that the BCHP staff were at least religiously affiliated, I sought …
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From Neo-orthodox theology to rationalistic deism : a study of the religious influences on the development of John Rawls's political philosophy.
… is to demonstrate that John Rawls's early religious beliefs guided the development of his later political philosophy. By first analyzing A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith, I argue that the young Rawls's embrace of Neo-orthodoxy shaped his later philosophical view of human …
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Nomi siciliani di invertebratin e piccoli animali. Studio etimologico e iconimico
In questo lavoro di tesi l'autore studia le denominazioni popolari di alcuni invertebrati e piccoli animali. I nomi degli animali vengono studiati sotto il profilo delle tassonomie popolari, dell'etimologia e della motivazione (iconimo)
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Compassionate Containment: The Cold War Origins of American Evangelical Humanitarianism
… Cold War engagement often focus on the religious motivations of elites and governmental policy in regard to religion. Evangelicals are largely portrayed as being either dupes of a “spiritual industrial complex” or Machiavellian opportunists in the vein of Jerry Falwell. The reality is …
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The Halal-Based Equity Investments in Kuwait
… that invest only in PH stocks, driven by religious motivations. Further, some interviewees seriously questioned the Shariah-compliance of MH stocks and thought of the fatwa that allows MH stocks should be revisited. Therefore, many interviewees agreed that the financial screening criteria …