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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We propose a model of religious organizations which relies on the ability of such organi-zations and personal utility shocks. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously and characterize their features. Specifically, we find that members of the religious organization share similar beliefs and are more likely to cooperate with one another in ...
Gilat Levy, Ronnie Razin
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Religious Leadership, Religious Research and Religious Renewal
Review of Religious Research, 1998La relation existant entre les organisations religieuses, la recherche en sciences religieuses et le renouveau religieux est tres forte. L'A. montre que ce renouveau religieux a besoin d'une nouvelle collaboration parmi les chercheurs et les leaders, qui, tous deux, ont la tâche de decrire la realite sociale et religieuse.
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Religious Authority, Religious Rule
European Journal of Sociology, 2007This article suggests that religion is better understood as a form of rule rather than as a domain of human life naturally distinct from politics and government. Through an examination of an association of Catholic priests active during the 1950s and 1960s, the article suggests that reconceiving religion in terms of authority and rule advances our ...
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2020
The last chapter surveys the range of issues and positions, and assesses the diversity of the contexts of and approaches to truth. It started from Jerome Yehuda Gellman's affirmation of the validity of truth claims to R. Nathan's renouncing the possibility of the common person attaining truth in a cognitive way, leading one to cultivate instead faith ...
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The last chapter surveys the range of issues and positions, and assesses the diversity of the contexts of and approaches to truth. It started from Jerome Yehuda Gellman's affirmation of the validity of truth claims to R. Nathan's renouncing the possibility of the common person attaining truth in a cognitive way, leading one to cultivate instead faith ...
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2020
What does it mean to use language religiously? How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices? Can religious language have meaning? Among others, these questions are part of the so-called problem of religious language, which originates from the peculiar object of many religious claims, that is, the transcendent, or more ...
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What does it mean to use language religiously? How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices? Can religious language have meaning? Among others, these questions are part of the so-called problem of religious language, which originates from the peculiar object of many religious claims, that is, the transcendent, or more ...
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Religious Beliefs, Religious Participation, and Cooperation
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2012We analyze the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation, and social cooperation. We focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, and identify a “spiritual” as well as a “material” payoff for being religious ...
Gilat Levy, Ronny Razin
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Religiousness, Religious Doubt, and Death Anxiety
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2014Terror Management Theory (TMT) (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) suggests that culturally-provided worldviews (e.g., religion) may protect individuals from experiencing death anxiety, and several studies have supported this position. However, if one's worldview can offer protection, doubts concerning one's worldview could undermine this ...
James, Henrie, Julie Hicks, Patrick
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New Blackfriars, 1935
Our Western world is said to be looking for a religion: what is more certain is the pretty general feeling that life is an affair of surfaces, most of them monotonous, the others painful either for themselves or because their beauty is already flecked with decay; and following this feeling the desire for something to which our present experience is ...
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Our Western world is said to be looking for a religion: what is more certain is the pretty general feeling that life is an affair of surfaces, most of them monotonous, the others painful either for themselves or because their beauty is already flecked with decay; and following this feeling the desire for something to which our present experience is ...
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Nursing Standard, 1987
The dilemma of health visitors faced with clients whose well being was threatened by their religious practices roused high feelings at the Health Visitors Association Annual Study Conference in Blackpool. Following a speech by Rabbi Julia Neuberger on the need for a spiritual dimension in health care, delegates spoke of the clash bet ween their ...
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The dilemma of health visitors faced with clients whose well being was threatened by their religious practices roused high feelings at the Health Visitors Association Annual Study Conference in Blackpool. Following a speech by Rabbi Julia Neuberger on the need for a spiritual dimension in health care, delegates spoke of the clash bet ween their ...
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