Around 31% of the world’s population are Christians, closely followed by Muslims at 25%. Jews have the smallest population of major religions, with only 0.2% of the world identifying as Jewish. Let’s take a look at the religious composition of the world when accounting for regions: ...
Scope “State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide” is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to the comprehensive study of religion and modern religious processes. Issued at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (on the basis of the I...
yet only about 15% of farmland is owned by women. Finland, Denmark and Norway has 100% Financial inclusion(Percentage of women ages 15 and older who report having an individual or joint account) where top 5 countries having the poor standard of financial inclusion are Turkmenistan(1.5%), Yeme...
In fact, not only did the participants prefer ChatGPT’s poetry, but they also found it “more human than human.” AI-written poetry was 17 percentage points more likely to be judged as having been written by a human than the actual human-authored poetry. It was also rated more favorably...
The percentage of individuals in a particular community who actually involve themselves in local party politics is exceeding small, far less than the number who actually turn out to vote. In the 2004 election, approximately seventy-two percent of the eligible population registered to vote, and eigh...
Religions have traditionally needed to address the philosophical problem of evil. The problem is expressed in Epicurus’ well-known paradox: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and ...
To be sure, it’s really more of a recent question. Go back far enough and you find certainty that there are many Gods. Even the Hebrew God that now dominates three major world religions started as a local God – the Hebrews were not originally monotheists. Still, the question has mer...
Our results show that each phase is followed not only by a stepwise increase in the number of localities with ochre, but also by a general increase in the percentage of sites yielding ochre with respect to stone artifacts (Fig. 8). Fig. 8 Graph based on Table S2 and S3 showing the ...
Students are given intensive academic education on religious texts, the history of religions, the philosophy of religion and ethics. These theoretical foundations emerge as a standard feature in theology faculties and broader religious sciences programs (Sözen 2022; Turan 2014). The religious ...
My husband and I were impressed by how happy the Buddha figures seemed to be. Figure 7. Happy Buddha statue in southern Vietnam. Religions seem to help provide a safety net for the poor. Working as a priest gives an option for income for those who would otherwise be unemployed and are...