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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"religious behavior"”.
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The Fear of the Lord in the New Testament : A Motivating Factor in Religious Behavior
Th. M., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1958
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Framing Norms and Beliefs: Experimental Approaches to Tax Compliance, Gender Identity, Religious Behavior, and Risk-Taking.
… believing in powerful gods encourages pro-social behavior and whether belief in vengeful gods motivates delegated punishment. Finally, the fourth chapter investigates how risk influences people's decisions to engage in pro-social conduct using data from a lab experiment. One goal connects my PhD …
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The Relationship of Family, Church, School, Peers, Media, and Adventist Culture to the Religiosity of Adventist Youth in Puerto Rico
… loyalty, Christian commitment, and religious behavior of Adventist young people of Puerto Rico has previously been conducted. Therefore, pastors, parents, teachers, church leaders, and administrators have no data on which to base their assessment of the religiosity of Adventist young …
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Power from on high : the political mobilization of Brazilian evangelical Protestantism
… This dissertation proposes a new explanation of religiously based political mobilization and tests the explanation with qualitative and quantitative data from Brazil. Religious behavior is shown to be the product of subjectively rational individual decisions constrained by organizational culture. …
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The Relationships Among Literacy, Church Activity and Religious Orientation: A Study of Adult Members of the LDS Church in Utah County
… interplay among literacy, church activity, and religious orientation and examined the extent to which literacy predicts church activity in the presence of private religious behavior. One hundred fifty-seven subjects were administered measures of intrinsic religiousness, extrinsic religiousness, …
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Political identity switching and change in religiosity among students at a conservative Christian university.
… on the effect of higher education on religious behavior and belief. Some of this effect may be due to higher education's influence on political identity which – in a context of increased political polarization and expressive political identity – may impact religious commitment. Using …
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Marital Satisfaction and Religiosity: A Comparison of Two Measures of Religiosity
… that a relationship exists between Christian religious beliefs and marital satisfaction: a person who has strong, conservative Christian beliefs also has high marital satisfaction. Results also show a correlation between a single-item subjective measure of marital satisfaction and the Marital …
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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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Exploring college students' relationship with God as a potential mediator between religious behaviors and sexual and alcohol risk behavior among college students
Many college students frequently engage in two behaviors - sexual activity and alcohol use - that can potentially lead to significant negative consequences, such as contracting a sexually transmitted infection or personal injury, respectively. College students also tend to be a population with …
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Digitalizing Religion in the Age of COVID-19: A Uses and Gratifications Perspective
… current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s religious behavior around the world. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, most in-person religious services have shifted to virtual platforms. The online religious transition amidst the outbreak has alleviated many issues for worshippers as it provided …
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Church Member Reactions to Religious Disaffiliation
<p>Religious disaffiliation is a growing trend in the United States, with estimates of between 15% through 20% of Americans identifying that they have no religion and this rate is growing by roughly 1% each year. Nearly all research concerning religious disaffiliation has focused on the individuals …
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Sensory perception, religious ritual, and reformation in Germany, 1428-1564
This dissertation analyzes religious ritual in fifteenth and sixteenth century Germany. It argues that the history of ritual behavior in this period discloses what can be described as a cultural ‘reformation of the senses.’ Previous histories of religious behavior in this period have approached …
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Assessment of Religious Motivation and its Effects on Health Related Behaviors
<p>The belief that one’s religious behavior can influence health, either by formal offerings to religious shamans or the uttering of a prayer to an unseen deity, likely predates recorded history and finds its most basic beliefs expressed in Exodus 15:26, “I will put none of the diseases upon you …
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A study of the perceptions of bishops, pastors, and future pastors toward Catholic schools
… schools have a positive impact on the adult religious behavior of their students. (5) They thought the schools make effective use of the church's resources, but use too much of them. (6) They thought that each parish should continue to finance its own school and that the financial support was …
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
… historical and institutional parallels with the religious dimensions of sport, focusing on ritual, community, sacred space, and other categories more traditionally associated with religious life. Instead, this study redirects focus toward the neo-religious nature of modern spirituality; that is, …