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Religion and the rise of populism
Religion, State and Society, 2018 The seemingly unstoppable rise of populism has caught observers by surprise. Donald Trump’s US election victory, the Brexit referendum in Britain, and President Erdoğan’s emboldened power in Turkey are just three of the many cases in which populism has ...
Daniel Nilsson DeHanas, Marat S. Shterin
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 History is rife with political actors framing policies to absolve themselves from blame. Such policies seem integral to governance. Studies have shown how the outbreak of diseases triggers policy changes from different governments, especially during the ...
Paulinus O. Agbo +3 more
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Religions, 2020 From 2020, the National Curriculum in Norway has been totally renewed for primary, secondary, and upper secondary education. This includes the introduction of such new concepts as ‘deep learning’ and ‘core elements’ in school education.
Oddrun M. H. Bråten, G. Skeie
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Sacred Ecology: The Environmental Impact of African Traditional Religions [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Do religions codify ecological principles? This paper explores theoretically and empirically the role religious beliefs play in shaping environmental interactions. We study African Traditional Religions (ATR) which place forests within a sacred sphere.
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Law of the leading digits and the ideological struggle for numbers [PDF]
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012)
pp. 792-798, 2011 Benford's law states that the occurrence of significant digits in many data sets is not uniform but tends to follow a logarithmic distribution such that the smaller digits appear as first significant digits more frequently than the larger ones. We investigate here numerical data on the country-wise adherent distribution of seven major world religions i.
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Associations between religiosity and sexuality in a representative sample of Australian adults [PDF]
, 2007 Many studies have examined the influence on sexual attitudes and behavior of religious belief (i.e., religious denomination) or religiosity (e.g., attendance at services, subjective importance of religion). However, few studies have examined the combined
de Visser, Richard O +3 more
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Income and Subjective Well-Being: New Insights from Relatively Healthy American Women, Ages 49-79. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The interests of economists, psychologists, social scientists and others on the relations of income, demographics, religion and subjective well-being, have generated a vast global literature.
Grace Wyshak
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Journal of Sex Research, 2019 While some research has uncovered racial differences in patterns of pornography viewership, no studies to date have considered how these patterns may be changing over time or how these trends may be moderated by other key predictors of pornography ...
Samuel L. Perry, C. Schleifer
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Two-exponent Lavalette function. A generalization for the case of adherents to a religious movement [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 89, 062803 (2014), 2014 The Lavalette function is generalized to a 2-exponent function in order to represent data looking like a sigmoid on semi-log plots. A Mandelbrot trick is suggested for further investigations, if more fit parameters are needed. The analyzed data is that of the number of adherents to the main religions in the XXth century.
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Blacks is to Anger as Whites is to Joy? Understanding Latent Affective Bias in Large Pre-trained Neural Language Models [PDF]
, 2023 Groundbreaking inventions and highly significant performance improvements in deep learning based Natural Language Processing are witnessed through the development of transformer based large Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). The wide availability of unlabeled data within human generated data deluge along with self-supervised learning strategy helps to
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