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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Religious orientations"”.
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The Relationship Between Religious Orientations and Levels of Moral Judgment.
… investigate the possible relationships between religious orientations and morality. While it is generally assumed that religion and morality are related, previous research has not supported this contention. The evidence to date indicates that only a slight or even negligible correlation exists …
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The Effects of Personal Characteristics and Religious Orientations on Identification with All of Humanity and Humanitarian Behaviors
… (empathy and authoritarianism) and religious orientations (Christian humanitarianism and religious fundamentalism) on identification with all humanity and resulting humanitarian behavior. This research also tested two hypothetical models (personality is primary, religion is primary) …
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Religious orientation and flow
… the nature and extent of relationships between religious orientations, religious orthodoxy, and flow, which is an experience akin to “being in the zone” in sports. The three religious orientations examined were intrinsic religiosity, which involves shaping one’s life around religious beliefs and …
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An exploration of the relationships among religious orientation, object relations, and positive adjustment
… This study explored the relationships between Religious Orientations, Positive Adjustment, and Object Relations. Intrinsics live by their religion, whereas Extrinsics use their religion for other ends (Allport & Ross, 1967), and Questers explore religion (Batson & Schoenrade, 1991a, 1991b). …
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Emotional Health, Well-Being, And Religion as Quest
This study examined the relationship between the religious orientation quest and well-being using the 1998 General Social Survey. In addition to the religious orientation quest the extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations were also investigated. Analysis of the data indicated that there was a …
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A study of religious involvement among university students : literal, anti-literal, and mythological religious involvement
… were clustered into relatively homogenous religious orientations, based on their scores on three scales of religious involvement, delineated by Hunt (1972): Literal, Anti-literal and Mythological. The three groups were compared on the following measures: (i) Background variables; (ii) …
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THE EFFECT OF RELIGIOUS AND NON-RELIGIOUS CONTENT IN SOCIAL SUPPORT MESSAGES
Religious demographics are becoming increasingly diverse in the United States, including non-religious orientations. This increasing religious pluralism, along with the trend towards constant connectivity with social networks, creates a need to understand how religious differences can affect …
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Religious Factors and Status Attainment among US Immigrants
… 2003, this dissertation examines the role of religious orientations and spiritual commitments on status attainment measures such as education, employment, and income among recent US immigrants. NIS is a nationally representative sample of recent US immigrants who receive permanent residency in …
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A community's dominant religion: A counter definition
Religious orientations, practices, and attitudes held by people relate in many ways to their behavior in secular society. To evaluate these various relationships several questions were considered. To what degree do religious beliefs influence an individual's daily attitudes and behaviors? Is there …
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Diverse styles of Islamic reform among the Songhay of eastern Mali
… 1970's which divided many communities along religious lines. The term 'Wahhabiyya', often used to describe a trend in religious reform in West Africa which is inspired largely by the Saudi Arabian model of puritan Islam, is accepted by most members of this Songhay movement. In the region of …
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Attitudes Toward Homosexuality at Private Colleges
… held conservative beliefs in their political and religious orientations were significantly different than those who held liberal and moderate beliefs. Respondents' differences presented in this study were within the neutral range, however, they had negative and positive trends. For example, the …
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Relational structures among worldview, self-view, moral inclusiveness, and moral orientation : a holistic and complementary perspective
… orientation index that measures various moral orientations, including egocentric, family, care, norm, justice, biocentric, and religious orientations, reflecting the corresponding worldviews, self-views, and levels of moral inclusiveness. Moral inclusiveness was operationalized as relationship …
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Heinrich Schutz and Rembrandt van Rijn: biblical illustrators
… Renaissance to the early Baroque, the continuing religious conflict of the Protestant Reformation, the rising influence of French classicism, and finally, the tragic events in each master's personal life. Stylistically, the music and painting of their early years typically show the exuberance and …
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Muslim identity and Islamic faith in Sarajevo.
… and the Muslim. These three correspond to three religious faiths; the Serbs are Orthodox, the Croats are Catholic and the Muslims are of the Islamic faith. Whilst the state does not officially recognise this correspondence, for ordinary Bosnians it is fundamental; national and religious identity …
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The Construction of Social Identity in Early Iron Age Greek and Eastern Zhou Chinese Burials: A Comparative Approach
… region. However, as the centuries passed, their religious orientations diverged, ultimately leading to two contrasting religious frameworks at the conclusion of the state formation process. This divergence also impacts distinct evolutions in the model of the state and the location of authority in …
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Invigorating the Church for Mission. Action Research with Local Parishes
… the view that in the study of churches and other religious organisations the methods associated with Action Research are particularly compatible with theological foundations of religious orientations to ‘being in the world’. The project draws on the emancipatory or salvific power of research as …