This article presents an interview with Stephen Prothero, head of the department of religion at Boston University. Prothero notes that the U.S. has become decreasingly knowledgeable about religion, despite the fact that the U.S. is regarded to be one of the most religious nations in the ...
leading to a decline in religious affiliation in some parts of the world, particularly in Western Europe and North America. According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of Americans who identify as Christian has been steadily decreasing, while the number of those who describe...
Religion is in decline in the West, and America is no exception The US is often taken to be a contrary case to the general decline of religion in the West. David Voas and Mark Chaves find that religiosity is in fact decreasing in the US, and for the same reason that it has been fal...
Since the reformation, Evangelical-Lutheran Christianity has been the dominating religion in the five countries, and continues to be so today, even though the number of members of the national churches is decreasing. Denmark, Finland, and Iceland still have national Evangelical Lutheran churches ...
Although tobacco use among women living with HIV (WLWH) is decreasing, the prevalence is more than double that of women in the general population and remai... FE Fletcher,DJ Vidrine,MB Trejo,... - 《Journal of Health Disparities Research & Practice》 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 ...
Four potential scenarios were considered: a stable rate of people moving in and out of Christianity; an increasing share of Christians leaving their religion as a decreasing number of people with no religious affiliation switching in; the same as the former but with no more than 50% of Christia...
Once the faith of millions, a small but devoted number of adherents in Asia and North America keep the flame of faith burning.
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[KMU], since 1972) or,more recently, theBertelsmannFounda-tion’scross-national population surveys(Religionsmonitor,since2007), have indeedconsistentlydocumented decreasingchurch affiliation, beliefs,and practices along-side increasingreligious indifference, thus indicatingamassive declineofinstitu-tional ...
First, circumcised males may have less difficulty maintaining penile hygiene, which may reduce the acquisition of STIs by decreasing inflammation and the carriage time of pathogens in the foreskin [19, 45]. Secondly, the non-keratinized epidermis of the prepuce in uncircumcised males may provide ...