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Genesis 15:1–6 and child adoption in Awkunanaw, Enugu state, Nigeria

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
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
doaj   +1 more source

Czym zajmuje się filozofia religii? ( What does philosophy of religion deal with?) [PDF]

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2010
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
doaj  

Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
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
core   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Relevance of the Concept of Civil Religion from a (West) German Perspective

open access: yesReligions, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Banach-Tarski paradox or what mathematics and religion have in common [PDF]

open access: yesPi in the Sky 2 (2000), 13-15, 2002
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]

open access: yes, 2002
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
core   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Approaching religion through linguistics: methodological thoughts on a linguistic analysis of 'religion' in political communication

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

Truth as value and duty: lessons of mathematics [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2008
I discuss some connotations of mathematical notion of "truth" in the context of humanistic ...
arxiv  

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