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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"religious fundamentalism"”.
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Religious Fundamentalism and Death Penalty Attitudes: Towards a New Operationalization of the Constructs
… while others are linked with opposition. Religious fundamentalism, for instance, is one variable that has been inconsistently associated with death penalty support in the literature. This discrepancy could be due to the poor measurement of the death penalty attitudes and religious …
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Religious Fundamentalism, Empathy, and Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gays Within the Therapeutic Relationship
… study was to explore the relationship between religious fundamentalism, empathy, and attitudes toward lesbians and gays in counselor trainees enrolled in CACREP accredited, master's level counselor education programs. A geographically stratified random sample was used to obtain a sample of 149 …
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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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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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Parental influence on political development among late adolescents
… conservatism (racial/social conservatism, religious fundamentalism, and punitiveness), and political identity. Results indicated that high levels of maternal acceptance were related to a conservative political party affiliation, high scoring on overall political conservatism, and high …
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Errors on the vertical: Santification, infra-humanization, and religious prejudice
Religious fundamentalism has been related to a variety of prejudicial and discriminatory attitudes and public policy preferences. However, contrary to accounts of fundamentalism as pathological, fundamentalists are physically and mentally healthier than no-fundamentalists (Genia, 1996; Pargament, …
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Do Religious Fundamentalists Stigmatize the Use of Mental Health Treatment?
… study examined the extent to which high vs. low religious fundamentalists stigmatized others for seeking religious-based or secular-based mental health treatments. Additionally, the present study compared the extent to which high vs. low religious fundamentalists felt they would be stigmatized if …
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Predicting Responses of Asian Christian Clergy to Domestic Violence
This study examined how cultural, religious, and demographic factors of Asian Christian clergy affect their perceptions and responses to domestic violence. Their age, years lived in the U.S., amount of pastoral counseling education, adherence to Asian cultural values, gender role beliefs, and …
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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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Women's masturbation: an exploration of the influence of shame, guilt, and religiosity
… & Moore, 1994). Researchers have found that more religious women have less affirmative responses to masturbation and are more likely to experience remorse about their own masturbation (Davidson, Moore, & Ullstrup, 2004). The present study’s purpose was to examine the responses of shame and guilt …
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Towards an implicit measure of religiousness-spirituality.
… between a newly-developed implicit measure of religiousness-spirituality, well-validated explicit measures and pro-social behavior. In Study 1, undergraduates (n = 109) at a private institution completed self-report measures of a broad spectrum of religiousness-spirituality and related …
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Comparative Literalisms: An Assessment of Protestant Christian and Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist Scriptural Hermeneutics through the Writings of Falwell, Rushdoony, Qutb, and al-Maqdisi
… figures, prominent in the academic literature on religious ‘fundamentalism’: Jerry Falwell, Rousas Rushdoony, Sayyid Qutb, and Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi. I examine what stands for ‘scriptural literalism’ for each of those authors and the way their ‘literalisms’ correlate and contrast with each …
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
… impact that Jerry Falwell had upon the rise of religious fundamentalism within the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. By elucidating the various factors that led Jerry Falwell from a little-known minister from Lynchburg, Virginia to becoming the figurehead of the movement …
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The Role of Reflective Judgment in the Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Prejudice
… over the past five decades has found that religious individuals tend to be more prejudiced than those who are not religious. In addition, research has identified various orientations to religion, each having a unique relationship to prejudice. The purpose of this study was to explore …
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"When the saints go marching in" : sadhus in democratic politics in late 20th century India
… study examines the political significance of religious leaders-known commonly as sadhus-in a huge and mature democracy like India. During the late '80s and the '90s, a flurry of sadhu activism coincided with the dramatic rise of a previously insignificant political party, the Bhartiya Janata …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
… through my examination of hybridity and fundamentalism within a globalized context. Both terms, I suggest, describe significant responses to, and conditions brought about by, an increase in cultural contact and exchange in an increasingly interconnected world. In Chapter 1, I delineate …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
… through my examination of hybridity and fundamentalism within a globalized context. Both terms, I suggest, describe significant responses to, and conditions brought about by, an increase in cultural contact and exchange in an increasingly interconnected world. In Chapter 1, I delineate …
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Caring for women with eating disorders – Aspects of the church as part of the problem and part of the solution
… group on spirituality has confirmed that religious and spiritual beliefs can be curative in the recovery from various mental health difficulties including eating disorders (Dein et al., 2010). Few studies in the United Kingdom, however. have explored whether and how church communities …
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The tragedy of Islamism in Britain: a fetishism for politics
… by the dominant discourse under the label of religious fundamentalism. The ʻfetishismʼ for politics from both the dominant and the dominated distorts their interaction, and is ultimately responsible, both for the political ʻfailureʼ of Islamist parties, and for the string of past and future …
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