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Does God So Love the Multiverse? [PDF]

arXiv, 2008
Monotheistic religions such as Judaism and Christianity affirm that God loves all humans and created them in His image. However, we have learned from Darwin that we were not created separately from other life on earth. Some Christians opposed Darwinian evolution because it undercut certain design arguments for the existence of God.
arxiv  

Religion and fertility ideals, intentions and behaviour: a comparative study of European countries [PDF]

European demographers rarely study religion as a determinant of contemporary demographic behaviour. One reason could be the secularisation observed in European countries, implying that the effect of religiosity has been diminishing.
Caroline Berghammer, Dimiter Philipov
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Religion and mental health [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper, we will present an empirical research motivated by the wish to learn how religion affects mental health, by comparing the answers of respondents from the general population, adherents of the dominant religion and smaller confessional ...
Kuburic, Z., Zotova, A.
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The Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: Does Australian Policy and Practice Adequately Support Cultural Identity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace, Megan Mitchell, Amy Conley Wright, Kathy Karatasas, Fay Hadley, Jioji Ravulo, Stacy Blythe, Adaora Ezekwem‐Obi, Manjula Waniganayake   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pengembangan Buku Ajar Tematik Dengan Pendekatan Integrasi Sains Dan Agama Di Kelas 4 Sekolah Dasar Islam Raudlatul Jannah Sidoarjo [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose of this development is to fulfil the needs of learning material especially in the Islamic Elementary School. In fact, thematic learning separated from religion; therefore continuity of learning model that will be applied is needed.
Nuzulia, N. (Nuril)
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Intergenerational Family Relationships and Old‐Age Volunteering: The Perspectives of Older Chinese Immigrants in Greater Sydney, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Embedded in the framework of intergenerational solidarity, this paper explores the interactions between older immigrants' participation in volunteering activities and intergenerational family relationships in the Chinese community in Sydney, Australia. The study investigates the effects of volunteering on the lives of older Chinese immigrants.
Bingqin Li, Yiran Li, Alan Morris, Youqing Fan, Xin Gu, Ilan Katz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where Angels Fear to Trade: The Role of Religion in Household Finance [PDF]

Although the relationship between religion and economic development on the macro-level has been investigated, it is less clear how religious background influences economic attitudes and financial decision-making on the level of the individual or ...
Renneboog, L.D.R., Spaenjers, C.
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Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomy of Chemical Bondings: Opportunities and Challenges

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
The recent focus on supramolecular and nanosized systems produced a major increase in the types of observed noncovalent interactions and in the diversity of terms used to designate them. A hierarchical categorization (taxonomy) of terms used to designate electrophile···nucleophile interactions is proposed here.
Andrea Pizzi, Giancarlo Terraneo, Cristina Lo Iacono, Roberta Beccaria, Arun Dhaka, Giuseppe Resnati   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

On religion and language evolutions seen through mathematical and agent based models [PDF]

Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Chess Interactions Conference (World Scientific, Singapore, 2010) pp. 157-182, 2011
(shortened version) Religions and languages are social variables, like age, sex, wealth or political opinions, to be studied like any other organizational parameter. In fact, religiosity is one of the most important sociological aspects of populations. Languages are also a characteristics of the human kind.
arxiv