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Did Religious Freedom Exacerbate COVID-19? A Global Analysis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of religion and health [J Relig Health] 2023 Aug; Vol. 62 (4), pp. 2799-2819. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 04.
Abstract: Did countries that became more repressive of religion during the COVID-19 pandemic, experience more COVID-19 cases and associated fatalities than countries that did not restrict religious freedom? As the pandemic raged across the world, many houses of ...
Why is India dropping evolution and the periodic table from school science?
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): Nature [Nature] 2023 Jun; Vol. 618 (7963), pp. 8.
The miracle of Maglavit (1935) and the Romanian psychology of religion.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences [J Hist Behav Sci] 2023 Apr; Vol. 59 (2), pp. 129-147. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 17.
Abstract: This paper examines the debates around the "miracle of Maglavit", a shepherd's vision of God that took place in 1935 in Romania and attracted much contemporary popular and intellectual interest. The debates drew in arguments from doctors and theologian...
Is Religion Special?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science [Perspect Psychol Sci] 2023 Mar; Vol. 18 (2), pp. 340-357. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 22.
Abstract: Religion makes unique claims (e.g., the existence of supernatural agents) not found in other belief systems, but is religion itself psychologically special? Furthermore, religion is related to many domains of psychological interest, such as morality, h...
Further Validation of the Religious Surrender and Attendance Scale-3 (RSAS-3).
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Substance use & misuse [Subst Use Misuse] 2023; Vol. 58 (12), pp. 1536-1543. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 03.
Abstract: Background : The Religious Surrender and Attendance Scale -3 (RSAS-3) is a very brief measure used to quantify religious commitment as a protective health factor. Methods : To provide evidence of criterion-related validity of the RSAS-3, 44...
Religious accommodation, agonism, agnosticism in healthcare: A commentary on Joshua Hordern, 'Accommodating religion and belief in healthcare: Political threats, agonistic democracy and established religion'.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Bioethics [Bioethics] 2023 Jan; Vol. 37 (1), pp. 28-31. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 30.
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 1935.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The British journal of sociology [Br J Sociol] 2023 Sep; Vol. 74 (4), pp. 598-623. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 12.
Abstract: What explains American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany before the U.S. entered the Second World War? Using a comparative-historical approach, we employ a novel set of data on 25 of America's most prominent religious denominations to answer this...
Exposure to automation explains religious declines.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2023 Aug 22; Vol. 120 (34), pp. e2304748120. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 14.
Abstract: The global decline of religiosity represents one of the most significant societal shifts in recent history. After millennia of near-universal religious identification, the world is experiencing a regionally uneven trend toward secularization. We propos...
Expressions of uncertainty in invisible scientific and religious phenomena during naturalistic conversation.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Cognition [Cognition] 2023 Aug; Vol. 237, pp. 105474. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 03.
Abstract: Across cultures, studies report more confidence in the existence of unobservable scientific phenomena, such as germs, as compared to unobservable religious phenomena, such as angels. We investigated a potential cultural mechanism for the transmission o...
The Pain and PRAYER Scale (PPRAYERS): development and validation of a scale to measure pain-related prayer.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) [Pain Med] 2023 Jul 05; Vol. 24 (7), pp. 862-871.
Abstract: Objectives: Prayer is a devotional practice used across religious traditions to commune with the sacred and has been used as a coping strategy for pain. Previous research on prayer as a pain coping strategy has had mixed results, with prayer associated...