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Youth, religion & religiosity A study of young adult's view of religion and religiosity
, 2012 This is a study concern high school student’s view of religion and their religiosity. I dispensed a questionnaire to 124 high school students studying comparative religion in a large high school in Sweden, with the students from different socio-economic ...
Lauricella, Annie
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Why Hasn’t Economic Growth Killed Religion? [PDF]
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. I use a formal model of religious competition to show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious participation in an open religious market ...
Michael McBride
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The Role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the US: a review of recent literature. [PDF]
The past few years have witnessed substantial progress in our understanding of how religious factors influence economic and demographic factors including education, female employment, fertility, and union formation and dissolution.
Evelyn L. Lehrer
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Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024)
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries PublicationsThe workshop Digital Parliamentary Data in Action 2024 (DiPaDa 2024) took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 28 May, co-located with The 8th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2024).
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Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? [PDF]
Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of a linkage between religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed.
Joseph Daniels, Marc von der Ruhr
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Uncomfortable Mirrors: Religion and Mimetic Violence in Contemporary Canadian Native Literature
, 2009 This study considers religion and mimetic violence in the work of four contemporary Canadian Native writers: Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Thomas King, and Basil Johnston.
Derry, Kenneth Stephen
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, 2013 Religion has come to be seen as one of the most common and powerful drivers of armed conflict. This article departs from a prominent portion of the existing academic literature in suggesting that the extensive influence of religion in conflicts cannot be
Wilkes, George
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The Salman Rushdie controversy, religious plurality and established religion in England [PDF]
, 1996 This thesis argues that the Salman Rushdie controversy has a range of "entails" which focus and contribute to the need for a reconsideration of the complex constitutional nexus of religion, society and state currently embodied in the establishment of ...
Weller, P.G., Weller, Paul Gareth
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The eschatological imagination in literature [PDF]
This article examines the role of the eschatological imagination in literature. It begins by arguing that eschatology, far from being abstract or outdated, shapes both individual and collective imagination and desire, orienting lives toward an implied or
Wolfe, Judith
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The Experimental Economics of Religion [PDF]
This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct economic ...
Robert Hoffmann
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