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A Model of Religious Investment to Explain the Success of Megachurches [PDF]

open access: yes
Despite their non-traditional approach, megachurches have grown significantly in the United States since 1980. This paper constructs a model of religious investment to examine how “seeker”-oriented megachurches succeed in attracting and retaining new ...
Joseph Daniels, Marc von der Ruhr
core  

Religion and the Cell-Only Population [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Compares the religious affiliations, church attendance, and religious salience of the cell phone-only, landline, and combined cell/landline samples, and explores the extent to which the differences are due to the relative youth of the cell-only ...
Allison Pond, Daniel Cox, Gregory Smith
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Understanding Concerns about Community Relations in Calderdale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
•This study examined attitudes and dispositions towards greater ethnic and religious diversity, as well as community relations more generally, among residents of predominantly white British neighbourhoods.
Busher, Joel   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliotherapy: Increasing Understanding of Religious Moderation with Group Counseling

open access: yesBulletin of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Extreme thoughts about moderate Islam are often the beginning of divisions. A shallow understanding of religious moderation makes it easier for someone to be indicated by radical views.
Yogi Damai Syaputra   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

(WP 2008-01) A Model of Religious Investment to Explain the Success of “Megachurches” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Despite their non-traditional approach, megachurches have grown significantly in the United States since 1980. This paper constructs a model of religious investment to examine how “seeker”-oriented megachurches succeed in attracting and retaining new ...
Daniels, Joseph P., von der Ruhr, Marc
core   +1 more source

Motivated for Action and Collaboration: The Abrahamic Religions and Climate Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have publicly advocated action to mitigate the adverse effects of human-forced climate change. Particularly prominent prior to, during, and after the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations ...
Schaefer, Jame
core   +3 more sources

Multisectoral Convergence of Food, Nutrition and Sanitation Programs for Child Health: Evidence From Country‐Level Programs in India

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper underscores the critical role of multisectoral convergence in enhancing child health, particularly in addressing anemia, a micronutrient deficiency linked to both diet and sanitation. We explore how the integration of nationwide food and nutrition programs with sanitation initiatives impacts anemia in Indian children under three ...
Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Prabhu Pingali
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Faith Online: Social Media and Religious Literacy among Women's Religious Groups

open access: yesKomunika
The integration of social media into religious practices exhibits a complex dichotomy. On one side, social media is primarily driven by the principles of virality, popular appeal, and commercial interests.
Dudi Iskandar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Youth Lifestyle in a Moslem Magazine: a Reception Analysis on “Muslimah” Readers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This research is about whether or not Indonesian female youth Moslem are easily accepting religious values packaged with popular icons in a Moslem magazine.
K, B. (Billy)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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