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Genesis 15:1–6 and child adoption in Awkunanaw, Enugu state, Nigeria
Adoption is a global phenomenon, and many childless couples choose adoption because they cannot have children biologically. Over the years, legally approved orphanages have been a beacon of hope for prospective adoptive parents.
Chisom S. Ugwuewo+2 more
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Czym zajmuje się filozofia religii? ( What does philosophy of religion deal with?) [PDF]
I take a methodological point view, i.e. my interest is not so much in the religion itself but in the epistemological status of the discipline called philosophy of religion – its subject, main goals, problems, and how it justifies its theses.
Andrzej Bronk
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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 among religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed.
Daniels, Joseph P., von der Ruhr, Marc
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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The Relevance of the Concept of Civil Religion from a (West) German Perspective
The paper argues for the continued importance and usefulness of the term “civil religion” in light of the (West) German discussion and the situation in Europe. For non-Americans, and especially for Germans for whom terms like “political
Jana Weiss, Heike Bungert
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The Banach-Tarski paradox or what mathematics and religion have in common [PDF]
We give a popular account of the Banach-Tarski paradox and its connections with the axiom of choice.
arxiv
Religion and the life attitudes and self-images of American adolescents [PDF]
The purpose of the project is to research the shape and influence of religion and spirituality in the lives of U.S. adolescents; to identify effective practices in the religious, moral, and social formation of the lives of youth; to describe the extent ...
Faris, Robert+2 more
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ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor+3 more
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The constructions of ‘religion’ in general language are seldom themselves in the focus of empirical research. Aiming to retrieve the inherent knowledge that lies within these constructions, this article suggests a term-based textual analysis to focus on ...
Stephanie Garling
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Truth as value and duty: lessons of mathematics [PDF]
I discuss some connotations of mathematical notion of "truth" in the context of humanistic ...
arxiv