Religion is defined as a set of beliefs and practices regarding a higher power that commonly is associated with a church, organized group, or community that embraces a shared core of beliefs, values, and practices. Spirituality is defined as experiences and feelings related to a search for (...
Likewise, religion is defined as the proportion of a community that adheres to any religious denomination. This study extends earlier work by employing Herfindahl indices as measures of community homogeneity with respect to race and ethnicity as well as religious denominations. It also measures ...
The history of Daoism is as old as the history of religion in China. Much of Taoist religion comes from Chinese folk religion. Buddhist ideas were adopted, and ideas of Confucian philosophy were added. The origins of Daoism are obscure, but it is first seen as a rival to Confucianism. The...
The term ‘religious nationalism’ is often theorized, at worst asantithetically conjunctive where religion is defined as theallegiance to God and nationalism is the allegiance to the nation,and at best as instrumental. I argue here that this fusion ofreligion and nationalism takes place most convi...
Religion is usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviours and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prop... B. -,P. - - 《International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 Best Path for Moral and Religion by Gandhi...
Inhisbook“HowWeBelieve”,MichaelShermertermshimselfan“agnostic”,oronewhocannotconcludewhetherthereisaGodduetotheinsufficientevidenceandthatbeliefschangeasnewinformationispresented.ThequestionofwhetherthereisaGodwillalwaysbethere,believeinwhatyouneedto.Thatwillbeyournecessaryreligion.
. For other claims (e.g., that God exists), one might accept that the explanation is a mystery. In the present research, we investigate “need for explanation” and “mystery acceptability” across the domains of science and religion, as a window onto differences between scientific and ...
Ancestor worship is defined as belief that the spirits of dead kin remain active in another realm where they may influence the living, and can be influenced by the living (Sheils1975; Spencer1870; Steadman et al.1996; Swanson1960). Ancestor worship is coded as four states in the SCCS: a ...
Yet while Australian judges have often stated the importance of religious freedom in a democratic state and have defined religion in a broad, culturally sensitive way, they have taken a narrow approach to the scope of religious freedom and to the meaning of establishment. The end result is that...
While secularism is commonly defined as the separation between the church and the state, this textbook definition is inadequate to understand why secularism is not practiced and implemented identically in different political systems. This is exactly the question Ahmet Kuru tackles in his comparative ...