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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Religious attitudes"”.
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Religious attitudes and Muslim identity, with reference to Turkish university students
The thesis explores religious attitudes and Muslim identity in Turkey from a social psychological perspective with reference to university students. Religious attitudes are explored in relation to three components: cognitive, behavioural and affective religious attitudes, whereas Muslim identity is …
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The Measurement of Religious Attitudes of Men in Residence Halls at Walla Wall College and Whitman College
… whether there is a measurable difference of religious attitudes among the residence hall men at Walla Walla College as compared to residence hall men at Whitman College; and (2) determine to what extent the Walla Walla College group subscribes to a position based on the dogma of the …
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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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Perceived Social Support and Religious Attitudes as Correlates of Spiritual Well-Being Among Senior Undergraduate Students at Northeast Brazil Adventist University
… well-being with perceived social support or religious attitudes among university students, and most of these have been in the fields of health care or health recovery. Some research has indicated that religious attitudes may be partially disconnected from improvements in the level of …
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A Study of the Religious Attitudes and Behaviors of Seventh-day Adventist Adolescents in North America Related to their Family, Educational, and Church Backgrounds
… research project, sought to identify attitudes and behaviors of Adventist adolescents and examine possible correlations with the religious backgrounds and influences of their homes, churches, and schools.</p> <p>Method. One church was randomly chosen for every 1,000 members within each …
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A Study of Religious Attitudes and Problems as Perceived by Current and Former Seventh-day Adventist Students at Seventh-day Adventist Mission Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
… been low. This present study was to identify the religious attitudes of current Adventist students and Adventist alumni of all Adventist mission secondary schools in Hong Kong and to determine the relationship of these attitudes to other selected variables such as Bible classes, spiritual …
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The Automatic Consequences of Religious Priming
… concerning the cognitive processing of religious attitudes. The limited research in this area applies schema theory to describe religious attitudes, but in doing so neglects specific cognitive processes. The present study applies cognitive processing theory to the domain of religious …
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Individualism and religion : the impact of the individualist cultural tradition on religious beliefs and practices.
… that an individualist cultural tradition has on religious attitudes and behaviors this study reveals that the shift in authority that takes place within this cultural tradition has a large influence on the subsequent religious behaviors and attitudes of the person.
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Religious and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Marital Satisfaction
… literature, I examine the effects of one's religious homogamy and the salience of religious homogamy in relation to one's reported marital satisfaction. Data used are parts of Wave II of the Baylor Religious Survey, a religiously-focused data set that compiles information of social and …
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"Neither Believer nor Infidel" Dialogic Portraits of Agnostic and Pragmatic Methodologies in Moby-Dick and Clarel
Much scholarship is dedicated to Melville’s religious themes, and other scholarship carefully analyzes the innovative formal techniques used by Melville, such as biblical allusion, digressive essays, and philosophical musings imbedded in fiction. However, religious analysis often turns to …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… pre-Islamic late antique Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Sasanian, Roman and Aksūmite) and at the …
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Towards a ressourcement of Dwight D. Eisenhower's belief that "our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith"
… no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith. In this context, it examines the beliefs of the Founding generation that support Eisenhower's contention. It also examines the beliefs prevailing during 1950s America that came to known as American civil religion. It then turns to a …
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Science and religion in 21st century America : a sociological perspective.
… extensive selection of quantitative measures of religious attitudes and behaviors, and also includes a battery of questions aimed at assessing American attitudes about mainstream science. Among the topics addressed are acceptance of evolution, support for teaching creationism in public schools, …
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
The subject of Scottish lay religious faith in the eighty years prior to the Reformation of 1559-60 is one in which a variety of concepts and concerns emerge. The choice which has been made reflects the constraints of time and space. Some attempt has also been made to address those areas which have …
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The Relationship Between Facebook Use and Religiosity Among Emerging Adults
… religion, claiming to be `spiritual, but not religious.' For emerging adults, this is the first time in their lives that they have been in control of major life decisions leading them to make choices that are uniquely theirs rather than choices those in authority have made for them. One of …
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American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam
… explored by scholars of either American religious history or diplomatic history. Most scholars who deal with the intersection of religion and foreign policy during the Eisenhower Administration tend to accentuate the close relationship that existed between government policy and general …
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Cranbrook, Kent, and its neighbourhood area, c. 1570-1670
… inhabitants' are explored within the concepts of religious ideology and social control in early modem England. Cranbrook society is examined within the context of developing religious attitudes and puritan ideas, which took hold and flourished in this period. The thesis also investigates the slow …
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