Top Research Papers on Religion

Filosofia della religione, religione e religioni - A partire da una rapida presentazione del modo in cui oggi si configura il fenomeno religioso, e da un’altrettanto rapida enucleazione delle ‘sfide’ che oggi si moltiplicano al modo tradizionalmente scientifico di studiare la religione, il saggio intende considerare i problemi, i mutamenti, le nuove prospettive che tali sfide hanno imposto e impongono non solo alle scienze delle religioni e alla teologia ma soprattutto alla filosofia della religione.

Tilak. Devi Lal worked like a crusader to achieve this goal. Dr Gupta points out that Haryana state was not the by-product of the Punjabi Suba agitation as is generally believed. Devi Lal worked under the banner of the Haryana Lok Manch for the demand ofa separate linguistic state. He mobilized public opinion, influenced politicians and soon became a force to reckon with. Soon after the formation of the state in 1966, the people of Haryana started lovingly calling Devi Lal the "Haryana Kesri" .

In this anthology, academics journalists and activists come together to explore several facets of India's communal problems its history, political settings and theoretical underpinnings. Distinctions as well as convergence between religion, religiosity and communalism are opened up to examination.

Materialism is a consumer value and believed to be influenced by an individual's religion and its religiosity. This study investigates the significant difference of religion and religiosity towards materialism in Malaysia. The study was conducted by collecting primary data through self administrated questionnaires from one of the local university in Malaysia. Collected data was analyzed through factor analysis, reliability test, frequency, mean, ANOVA and T-tesy The study demonstrated that there is significant difference by religiosity; Buddhist religiosity; low intra / low inter-persona...

RELIGION, RELIGIOSITY AND MATERIALISM By Lau Ung Ing (Materialism is a consumer value and believed to be influenced by an individual's religion and its religiosity. This study investigates the significant difference of religion and religiosity towards materialism in Malaysia. The study was conducted by collecting primary data through self administrated questionnaires from one of the local university in Malaysia. Collected data was analyzed through factor analysis, reliability test, frequency, mean, ANOVA and T-tesy The study demonstrated that there is significant difference by religiosity; Bud...

This article proposes a synthetic and comprehensive theoretical and methodological model whose aim is to allow a clarification of debates regarding the definition of religion and a classification of their operational value. After recalling that ‘religion’ is only a concept and not a ‘thing’, this article first turns to the opposition between substantive and functional definitions and argues as to the irreducibility of one and the other. Second, the article proposes a three-tier model —the religious, religion(s) and religiosity— in order to ‘situate’ the field of applicability of existing theor...

Conversation with Dr. habil. Jorg Herrmann and Anke Hoffmann about contemporary constellations in the religious field. (Gesprach auf Deutsch Seiten 26-29)

La multiculturalite est, en elle-meme une question qui concerne la religion. Dans cette perspective il parait plus logique de parler de religions au pluriel, en faisant reference aux doctrines et aux rites qui caracterisent culturellement les differentes religions. Le concept de religion, au singulier, ferait plutot reference a la dimension spirituelle, ontologique, au sentiment qui oriente la personne de maniere ethique dans sa relation a elle-meme, aux autres, au monde et a Dieu

The collapse of the USSR marked the end of the multiethnic ‘Soviet Nation’. Consequent to the moving out of the republics from the federation, Russia and Russians faced the challenge of defining their own identity and that of a new, multinational, multi-confessional state—the Russian Federation. Towards this end of regenerating identity, religion proved to be a very potent instrument. Religion and religiosity in Russia is closely interconnected with ethnic self-awareness and consolidation of political identities that go beyond religion. It has been employed to foster both inclusive and exclusi...

It is our firm conviction, formed in years of philological-historical investigation, that the categorization of religion is not only Christian, not only Western and not at all recent. This chapter focuses on the Roman world and the Latin language. Unlike other ancient Mediterranean peoples like the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians or the Greeks, who had a rich speculation about the divine and a clear consciousness of the existence of a religious sphere but no single word corresponding to religion in its contemporary meanings, the ancient Romans had in their vocabulary a very specific and common wo...

Despite caveats to the effect that a category denominated religion is of dubious analytical utility, and contrary to suggestions that would have us either drop the word religion from our investigative vocabulary (Smith 1962) or significantly curtail its usage (Needham 1981), many anthropologists continue to apply the term broadly and to proffer or otherwise support explicit definitions. It is perhaps the case that for some the category religion is analogous to the religion that William James (1929:8) discerns among many religionists: it "exists," that is, "as a dull habit." But for numbers of ...

The era of finding “the real” religious answer by fighting against all other pre-existing religious phenomenon and by ongoing splitage of Christianity—as well as in any other religion—has to become more peaceful and be replaced with the inner search rather than the outer research. This is the main point of not having all religious manifestations compared and dissected in the quest of finding peculiar aspects that might serve as proofs against its designation as “the divine commandment” given directly by God specifically for “certain,” elected people. My point in asking if “there is such thing ...

Hermeneutics has unveiled the unit of meaning: Meanings of religion/religiosity in the daily life of the elderly, and the nurse, while providing care, should expand his/her vision in relation to the subjectivity of the elders in order to understand that religion/ Religiosity gives meaning to their existence.

: The article addresses the problem of changes that are currently taking place in the field of religious beliefs, religious customs and the role of religion and the Catholic Church in Polish society. The author presents selected data from sociological research conducted in recent years, which quite clearly show trends of weak- ening religious engagement, increase in religious pluralism, individualization and privatization of religion, as well as weakening the importance of the institutional Church. Although certain ten- dencies are outlined, it is unpredictable what their further course will b...

This article examines the impact of globalisation on religion and religiosity in Tanzania in the face of the neo-liberal ideology taking hold of the country. It focuses mainly on christian groups and denominations influenced by  pentecostalism in Tanzania. Thus, the discussion does not include other religions because since 1980s, it is evident that there has been an increase of new churches within christian groups. The main argument is that neo-liberal ideologies, which have been apparent in the east African countries since the 1980s, have affected people's religious attitudes, expectations an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and measure the relationship between a leader’s religion and religiosity (independent variables) and leadership practices (dependent variables) in the context of non-western Christian and Muslim organizational leaders. Design/methodology/approach – The quantitative correlation study involved 384 organizational leaders (150 Christians and 234 Muslims) working in various industries in Lebanon. Organizational leaders supplied their religious affiliation and self-rated their religiosity and leadership practices. Findings – Results were somewhat mi...

The study was set to investigate the nature and effects of religious violence along with the governments' role in combating such violence. The study also intended to reveal the causes of the increasingly growing impact of religious violence. The study has been based on the rationale that radicalism and fundamentalism empower religious violence. The study employed the meta-analysis research method whereby the researchers carried out the synthesis of results from existent studies to reach conclusions and inferences that could address the study questions. The findings of the study indicated that ...

Abstract The continuing, albeit heightened, relevance of faith-related disruptions in domestic and international discourses are a function of politics and geopolitics and is not, on empirical evidence, suggestive of heightened piety. Would this induce that religion is not politics, that religiosity is not religion, and that global order is to be premised on global interests and not on exclusively national ones? Are we prepared, conceptually and organizationally, to undertake it even if it involves as it must going beyond the traditional paradigm of faith and of national interest? Or, could the...

1. Defining Psychology, Defining Religion 2. Exceptional or Natural? Psychological Origins of Religion 3. Social Learning and Identity 4. Explaining Variations in Religiosity 5. Women and Religion 6. Consequences and Correlates of Religiosity 7. Conversion and Convert-Dependent Groups 8. Psychoanalysis and the Psychological Study of Religion 9. Secularization and the Persistence of Religion 10. Concluding Remarks: The New Psychology of Religion

The effects of religion and religiosity as measured by attendance at weekly religious services on the demand for private schooling is assessed. It is shown that Catholics, fundamentalist/evangelical Protestants, and respondents who attend religious services more often have a higher demand for private schooling. Data from the National Opinion Research Center’s “General Social Survey” are used.

Over the years Professor Beit-Hallahmi has given us his distinctive overviews of the state of the psychology of religion. His interest in the psychoanalytic approach has endured over the years, and so has his eclecticism and originality. My personal favourites were his 1975 paper with Michael Argyle on the Freudian hypothesis of G-d as a father-figure, and his 1992 book, Despair and Deliverance: Private salvation in contemporary Israel. These works epitomise two of his salient interests, psychoanalysis and religious change. But he has been a prolific author with a huge range of interests, in p...

A partir de l’analyse de textes allant de Ciceron aux apologues chretiens du quatrieme siecle, cet article s’efforce d’identifier la possibilite pour les Anciens de conceptualiser une pluralite de religions. Depuis l’usage qu’en fait Ciceron, les ac- ceptions du terme religio sont claires : quoique employe dans un sens generique, recouvrant des elements tant rituels que doctrinaux, le concept n’a pas ete utilise pour decrire differentes pratiques religieuses ou groupes de croyants – si ce n’est a de rares exceptions, bien connues et parfaitement explicables (Lactance, p. ex.). Aussi le champs ...

The Tamils can be defined in terms of the people who speak Tamil as their mother tongue. The Tamil language is a member of the Dravidian/South Indian family of languages. The four southernmost states of India - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andra Pradesh - are predominantly linguistically Dravidian, each state is carved out on the basis of predominance of the four major Dravidian languages. South India and Sri Lanka have been homelands of the Tamils from the beginning of recorded history. The region roughly covered by the modern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala is identified as ancient "tam...

Abstract This essay submits a thesis on radical religion, discusses the measures of religion, and proposes the concept of “super-religiosity.” This will be followed by a second essay (in Numen vol. 60, issue 4, 2013) that presents a contemporary case to which the analytic model of super-religiosity is applied. Though the two essays systematically relate to each other and are complementary, they can be read independently of one another. The theoretical core of the essay addresses the issue of the measurability of religiosity. It supports the recent claim that religion in general and religious e...

. The present paper is the outcome of three-months research in 2019 on the religiosities of the Indonesian Generation Z (Gen Z). The two research questions oriented this undertaking, first, how is the formation of Gen Z religiosities within the context of communicative abundance? Secondly, how do they strategize the social media for their religiosities in the transitional phase to adulthood? We conducted seventy-five interviews and Focus Group Discussions and 745 respondents in an online survey, among the twelfth grade of senior high schoolers, and the first to third year of university student...

Abstract The study was set to examine the differences between religion and religiosity and to explore how communities can be protected against religious violence. The study also intended to investigate the motives and the effect that religious violence has had throughout history. The study employed the qualitative research method whereby the researcher carried out a meta-analysis synthesis of different research findings to make conclusions and implications that could answer the study questions. Using the literature review they conducted, the researchers carried out data collection. As such, th...

Religion was a recurrent theme in Georg Simmel’s thought. Despite this fact, and despite the current rediscovery of Simmel’s ideas, his insights into religion remain relatively neglected. The task of integrating Simmel’s legacy into the current study of religion remains a continuing challenge. This paper, based on an on-going study of Simmel’s work (involving a close reading of his writings in the original version), refl ects on his conceptualisation of the relationship between religion understood as an objective, social and historical phenomenon and subjective religiosity. In Simmel’s view, t...

In contemporary China, there are a huge variety of ideals, activities, people, practices, networks and buildings that could be depicted as either religious or quasi-religious. These include Christian churches, Islamic mosques, Buddhist, Daoist and local temples, ancestral shrines, fortune tellers, geomancers, qigong practitioners (those who manipulate qi , the vital energy of life), Confucian ritualists, teachers of Confucian, Daoist or Buddhist philosophy, and even the purveyors of state ideologies and rituals, who often draw on broadly religious sensibilities. To grasp this huge array of dis...

We survey students at two Southern United States universities (one public and one private, religiously affiliated). Using a survey instrument that includes 25 vignettes, we test two important hypotheses: whether ethical attitudes are affected by religiosity (H1) and whether ethical attitudes are affected by courses in ethics, religion or theology (H2). Using a definition of religiosity based on behavior (church attendance), our results indicate that religiosity is a statistically significant predictor of responses in a number of ethical scenarios. In seven of the eight vignettes for which reli...

This collection of essays addresses the core findings of a newly established field of enquiry, the cognitive science of religion. Several of the essays single out my theory of “modes of religiosity” for particular attention, and that is partly because some began as presentations at meetings on that topic. The modes theory has been summarized in a recent issue of this journal (Whitehouse 2002) and set out in detail in three monographs (Whitehouse 1995, 2000, 2004a) so I will not devote any further space to rehearsing those arguments. But what scholar could resist an opportunity to reply to erud...

Tilak. Devi Lal worked like a crusader to achieve this goaJ, Dr Gupta points out that Haryana state was not the by-product of the Punjabi Suba agitation as is generally believed. Devi Lal worked under the banner of the Haryana Lok Manch for the demand of a separate linguistic state. He mobilized public opinion, influenced politicians and soon became a force to reckon with. Soon after the formation of the state in 1966, the people of Haryana started lovingJy calling Devi Lal the "Haryana Kesri".

The traditional literature on food demand has been based on the premise that consumers gain direct benefits from consumption of goods purchased at the market and has estimated the effect of prices, income and quality indicators on food purchases. However, for the most part, traditional demand studies that use prices and income as explanatory variables explain less than 50 percent of the variation in the data, and there is a place to increase the factors considered in demand analysis. Following Nobel Laureate Gary Becker’s introduction of the concepts of human capital and family production func...

The presence of religion on the Internet is growing globally. This special issue aims at analyzing how religious groups and individuals employ digital media, how religion is represented online, and how new technologies shape the practice of contemporary religion. With articles in different languages focusing on various contexts, this special issue explores religious authorities, practices, communities, conflicts

Although religion and religiosity are well-known factors for influencing behaviour in different social settings, there is very limited research that explores the links between them and visitation patterns of tourists. In this study tourists' visitation patterns to a heritage site of religious significance (the Wailing Wall, Israel) are explored. Differences are found between tourists based on their religious affiliation and religiosity. The findings also reveal that the tourists' religiosity has different effects on those with different religious affiliations. It is argued that the actual rela...

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Locating Religion1. Religion and Incongruity2. Placing ReligionPart II. Encountering Religion3. Encountering the Human4. Encountering TheologyPart III. Religion5. Religion and Responsibility6. On Psychotheology7. Criticism as Conduct of GratitudeConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

The article is devoted to the theoretical reconstruction of the of the conceptual version of postsecular religiosity. All the theories clame that the traditional religion can survive today through cover-up it’s religious identity. This is accompanied by the marginalization of religious organizations and an increase in the influence of religion at the level of individual interest. Theological analysis is limited mainly by negative characteristics when describing post-secular religiosity: the devaluation of transcendence and the rejection of dualism (Daniel HervierLeger), the absence of doctrina...

In this study, I emphasise that beliefs are always inherent in lived spirituality. According to John Hick (1989), a scholar of religion, offering beliefs that address human questions about dealing with the limitations and sufferings of life as well as the human quest for meaning is a central function of religion in human culture. Based on this theory, I explore the importance of studying how religious beliefs are received and appropriated, particularly in our globalised, pluralistic culture where there is a smorgasbord of beliefs.

Whereas religion/religiosity (R/R) tends to have a positive relationship with psychological well-being in general, the relationship between R/R and Mastery is less clear. Research investigating R/R–mastery has reported a positive, nonsignificant, and negative relationship, and often uses informal composite measures to assess R/R without a substantive discussion surrounding their suitability. The current study used a national Canadian sample (N = 12,930) to investigate the moderating effect of socioeconomic status and religious affiliation on R/R–mastery. Researchers used dual analytical strate...

INTRODUCTION The scene is not unfamiliar to many large capitals of the world on market day. The narrow lanes are overflowing with fresh fruit, produce, and hand crafts. Trucks laden with imported goods from around the world are being unloaded, and these goods too are exhibited in the outdoor stalls. The languages vary, as do the songs. Strains of Islamic chant mix with African drums and Andean wood pipes. The smells mix as well. These include the odor of rotting produce crushed under foot by a steady traffic of buyers, tourists and vendors. Richer smells can also be detected: cut flowers and h...

The effects of religion and religiosity on the demand for private schooling are considered both theoretically and empirically. Probit estimates of private school attendance and multinomial logit estimates of attendance at different types of private schools including Catholic schools, Protestant schools, and nonsectarian private schools are undertaken. It is shown that both religion and religiosity have important effects on the demand for the different types of private schools. Further, it is shown that if religiosity is not taken into account (the usual case), the effect of religion on demand ...

The religiosity of adolescents in Italy is studied, taking into consideration both the Italian and American literature, and the role that the catholic religion plays in encouraging religious socialization is noteworthy.

The various ethnologists and anthropologists contributing to this volume focus on the "self"-perspective in relation to religion and spirituality: on how religiosity is personally thought, dreamt, imagined, created, felt, perceived and experienced, in its various subjective forms. The personal motive and practice in religion is here put to the front. One can see this perspective also reflected in today's society, in the ways people, most strongly in the West, are nowadays dealing with religion, religiosity or spirituality, often drifted far away from the institutional church organizations. As ...

Abstract Social group conflict along regional, ethnic, linguistic, and religious cleavages is deeply embedded in the Canadian historical experience. Contemporary analyses, however, have deprecated the role of religion and religiosity in shaping Canadians' political attitudes. This analysis demonstrates that religion and religiosity are significant correlates of Canadian attitudes on moral issues, paralleling the pattern observed in the United States. It demonstrates that the religious cleavage has been a salient feature of Canadian politics for some time and considers whether the contemporary ...

The author discusses Georg Simmel’s writings on religiosity and religion, which only cover a rather tiny part of his total oeuvre, in view of a possible illumination of the material object of the sociology of religion. The distinction between religiosity and religion, which is fundamental according to Simmel, is presented against the more general background of Simmel’s so-called formal sociology and his overall “Lebensphilosophie” [philosophy of life]. Particular attention is given to the two basic social forms of religiosity, i.e. belief or trust and the experience of social unity. According ...

U modernim vremenima individualna religioznost ili religioznost svakodnevnog života posebno je važna s obzirom na trendove traženja svetog van religijskih institucija. U tom kontekstu potrebno je istraživati i teoretizirati koncept kojim se u svojim djelima bavio i Željko Mardesic – pucka religioznost. Uz ovaj pojam koristi se jos i pojam popularna religioznost, pucko vjerovanje i praznovjerja, pucka pobožnost. Prikazani su i relevantni podaci iz međunarodnog istraživanja International Social Survey Programme - modul Religija, 2008.

This study aims to determine how the influence of religious knowledge and religiosity on pluralism of students Kajen. This research is quantitative with three variables, they are religious knowledge and religiosity as independent variables, and pluralism as dependent variable. Data analyzing of this research used the correlation of product moment for the partial test, and linear regression test for the simultaneous test. The results of data analysis to the 136 samples showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between religious knowledge and pluralism, it shown by the value of...

We provide evidence on the significant effect of religiosity (measured by attendance to religious services) on reducing depression. In particular, it is found a significant negative effect of religiosity on the probability of being depressed. Findings of previous studies are extended by showing that while the religious denomination seems to have a non-significant effect on the probably of depression, other aspects of religiosity, in particular the religious diversity of the country of residence does affect the prospects of depression. The probability of being depressed is higher, the lower the...

This graduating paper investigates Nathaniel Hawthorne�s The Scarlet Letter. The research attempts to discover Hawthorne�s perception toward Puritans in which they are hypocrites. They are people who have religion but their attitude and behavior are far from religiosity. The objectives of this paper are to see the differences between religion and religiosity and to find out the deviation of the Puritans as religious people. The analysis covers the hypocrite of Puritan, Hawthorne�s perception toward Puritans, self-contemplation that experienced by Hester. Hester is a character which commi...

In comparative studies of religion in Western Europe, Ireland stands out as a society where religion is still important. Today, decline is also evident. This paper asks how this dual aspect - persistence and decline - is to be explained. It focuses on the Protestant minority in the Republic of Ireland, and more specifically on the Protestants of West Cork.