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Unmasking Nigeria’s leadership conundrum: The role of the church

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The intricacies of Nigeria’s leadership challenges present a formidable obstacle to the nation’s progress. Corruption, political instability, and ethnic and religious tensions form a complex web that impedes development.
Chioma P. Onuorah
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Religiosity and Innovation Attitudes: An Instrumental Variables Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Estimating the influence of religion on innovation is challenging because of both complexness and endogeneity. In order to untangle these issues, we use several measures of religiosity, adopt an individual-level approach to innovation and employ the instrumental variables method.
arxiv  

Soft Contextualism in the Context of Religious Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
When trying to do justice to the discourse of a certain religion it is often implicitly assumed that one’s analysis should accord with and respect the opinions held by the people preaching and practicing that religion.
Svensson, Thord
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An African Monotheism: The Igbe Religion of the Urhobo and the Economic Importance of Ore-Isi Festival

open access: yesYoruba Studies Review, 2021
This article illustrates the religious diversity of coastal Nigeria by analyzing the Igbe religion, a monotheist religion practiced mainly by Urhobo speakers.
Fortune Afatakpa
doaj   +3 more sources

مفهوم مصطلح الدين في الفكر الإسلامي

open access: yesالآفاق اسلامی و تحقیقی مجلہ, 2023
The research discusses the problematic concept of the concept of religion in Islamic thought. The researcher extrapolates the definitions of religion, presents models for study and analysis, and then devises a comprehensive academic scientific ...
Ali Zalmat
doaj  

Muslim-Violence Bias Persists in Debiased GPT Models [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Abid et al. (2021) showed a tendency in GPT-3 to generate mostly violent completions when prompted about Muslims, compared with other religions. Two pre-registered replication attempts found few violent completions and only a weak anti-Muslim bias in the more recent InstructGPT, fine-tuned to eliminate biased and toxic outputs.
arxiv  

Quality of life of the Indonesian general population: Test-retest reliability and population norms of the EQ-5D-5L and WHOQOL-BREF

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Objectives The objective of this study is to obtain population norms and to assess test-retest reliability of EQ-5D-5L and WHOQOL-BREF for the Indonesian population.
F. D. Purba   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Worldhood Competence and Performance:\ud The Site for Wittgenstein"s Religious Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
It is common knowledge that Wittgenstein cannot be called\ud fundamentally a religious writer. All the same, he did not\ud dismiss the reality 'religion' as nonsense. It is opined here\ud that, Wittgenstein was very consistent in his references to\ud it.
Okonkwo, Jerome Ikechukwu
core  

God of iron and iron working in parts of Ǹsúkkā cultural area in Southeast Nigeria

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This study is aimed at evaluating the influence of the god of iron on ironworking communities in Ǹsúkkā cultural area. In the study area, the Supreme God – Chúkwú Òkìkè, Chínēkè or Chúkwú Ábíàmà is believed to control the affairs of humanity.
Joshua O. Uzuegbu, Christian Agbo
doaj   +1 more source

Financialization, religion, and social trust in rural China.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
This paper examines the impact of financial development and religion on social trust in rural China. We use multinomial logistic regression models with the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) Survey Data of 2013.
Wei Yin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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