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Rethinking Cyberreligion?

open access: yesNordicom Review, 2008
Since the coming of the Internet scholars have been discussing its implications for the future of religion. With its high levels of Internet use and low levels of religious practice Sweden represents an interesting case for studying these issues.
Lövheim Mia
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity: Relocating Religious Change

open access: yesMythos, 2018
The claim formulated in this article is that city-space and interaction with city-space engineered the major changes that revolutionised ancient Mediterranean religions.
Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, Jörg Rüpke
doaj   +1 more source

The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
British newspapers have denigrated anthropogenic climate change by misrepresenting scientific consensus and/or framing climate change within unsympathetic discourses. One aspect of the latter that has not been studied is the use of metaphor to disparage
Fernandez, A.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

A Religious Tolerance and Harmony the Qur'anic Perspective

open access: yes, 2016
The religious tolerance and harmony is something necessary to develop due to the need of global security and peace today. For this purpose, all religions have to be fairly “tolerant” to others.
Yusuf, Choirul Fuad; Office for Research and Development and Training, Ministry of Religious Affairs
core   +1 more source

Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies:: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Drawing on our research on Pentecostal Christianity in Singapore, the article introduces the transcultural approach and discusses its possible contributions to the academic study of religions.
Katja Rakow   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Associations Between Changing Childhood Religions and Adult Psychopathology: Results from a Multigenerational Sample of Individuals at High and Low Risk for Depression

open access: yesReligions
We examined whether change in childhood religious affiliation (i.e., religious change) is associated with increased rates of adult psychopathology. Data were obtained from a three-generation study of families at high- and low-risk for major depressive ...
Connie Svob   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Green Revolution in the World’s Religions: Indonesian Examples in International Comparison

open access: yesReligions, 2015
Similar to progressive political movements, the programs of many religious and spiritual groups today are converging around a shared commitment to address the impending global ecological crisis.
Thomas A. Reuter
doaj   +1 more source

Is self-assessment in religious education unique? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper addresses the question: is self-assessment in religious education unique? It first presents an overview of some challenges for assessment from subject differences, and then reviews the generic literature on self-assessment.
Brooks, Val   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Religious practices among Islamic immigrants: Moroccan and Turkish men in Belgium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This study examines the religious participation of Islamic immigrants in Belgium using data from the Migration History and Social Mobility Survey collected in 1994–1996 from 2,200 men who had immigrated from Turkey and Morocco. Religious participation is
Ruiter, S.   +14 more
core   +4 more sources

Treatment with KCL‐286, a first‐in‐class retinoic acid receptor‐β (RARβ) agonist, ameliorates neuronal DNA damage and inflammation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Repair of neuronal DNA damage in Alzheimer's disease by KCL‐286. (A) Amyloid‐β oligomers and plaques impair neuronal DNA repair pathways, leading to DNA double‐strand breaks and glial activation. (B) KCL‐286 activates RARβ/RXR signalling via retinoic acid response elements (RAREs), associated with increased BRCA1 expression, enhanced DNA repair and ...
Natasha Hill   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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