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New Hampshire civic health index [PDF]

, 2009
The Carsey Institute is participating in a study to examine America\u27s civic health. Led by the Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), America\u27s Civic Health Index is an annual study that measures a wide variety of civic indicators, such as community ...
Dillon, Michele, Rogers, Shannon H.
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Do religious contexts elicit more trust and altruism? An experiment on Facebook [PDF]

We design a decision-making scenario experiment on Facebook to measure subjects’ altruism and trust toward attendees of a religious service, a fitness class and a local music performance.
Bradley J. Ruffle, Richard Sosis
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Digital literacy in religious studies [PDF]

, 2013
This article considers the relevance of the concept of ‘digital literacy’ within the context of the discipline of religious studies in higher education and reflects on its potential impact on notions of ‘graduateness’.
Sinclair, Stefanie
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Against Marrying a Stranger Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia

, 2017
Websites and applications that match and connect individuals for romantic purposes are commonly used in the Western world. However, there have not been many previous investigations focusing on cultural factors that affect the adoption of similar ...
Abokhodair, Norah, Al-Dawood, Adel, Mimouni, Houda El, Yarosh, Svetlana   +3 more
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#Halal Culture on Instagram

, 2017
Halal is a notion that applies to both objects and actions, and means permissible according to Islamic law. It may be most often associated with food and the rules of selecting, slaughtering, and cooking animals.
Benkhedda, Youcef, Khairani, Mejova, Yelena   +2 more
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A Figured World Study of the Online Faith Discourse of a Philippine Catholic Parish Facebook Page

Religion and Social Communication
This sociolinguistic study examines the Facebook page of a Catholic parish in the Philippines as a figured world. The figured world framework is a way of viewing a particular locus of interaction as a product of social and cultural construction.
Pia Patricia P. Tenedero
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Death - Cultural, philosophical and religious aspects [PDF]

, 2016
About death, grief, mourning, life after death and immortality. Why should we die like humans to survive as a species. "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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“Our Angel of Salvation”- Towards an Understanding of Iranian Cyberspace as an Alternative Sphere of Musical Sociality [PDF]

, 2018
This article explores the emergence of the internet as an alternative sphere of musical circulation, focusing on the case of Iran and specifically certain kinds of music for which the internet has become the primary arena of musical sociality, in some ...
Nooshin, L.
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Niereligijni rodzice wobec instytucji szkoły

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to identify and analyse problems reported by non-religious parents. These parents are subjects of the education process whose children attend Polish educational (usually public) institutions, in which religion is one of the ...
Sylwester Zielka
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Public Fora Purpose: Analyzing Viewpoint Discrimination on the President’s Twitter Account [PDF]

, 2018
Today, protectable speech takes many forms in many spaces. This Note is about the spaces. This Note discusses whether President Donald J. Trump’s personal Twitter account functions as a public forum, and if so, whether blocking constituents from said ...
LoPiano, James M
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