Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,868
Cover Image
Afterlives : testimonies of Irish Catholic mothers on infant death and the fate of the unbaptised
Kennedy, Liam - 2019
Children growing up in the Ireland of the 1950s will have a clear remembrance of a metaphysical space or place known as Limbo. For Catholics, though not Irish Protestants, this formed part of a spiritual cosmos which viewed Heaven and Hell as opposite poles, with Purgatory and Limbo occupying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029952
Cover Image
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis : religion and female employment over time
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308458
Cover Image
Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
Cover Image
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307445
Cover Image
Afterlives: Testimonies of Irish Catholic mothers on infant death and the fate of the unbaptised
Kennedy, Liam - 2019
Children growing up in the Ireland of the 1950s will have a clear remembrance of a metaphysical space or place known as Limbo. For Catholics, though not Irish Protestants, this formed part of a spiritual cosmos which viewed Heaven and Hell as opposite poles, with Purgatory and Limbo occupying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030034
Cover Image
Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581963
Cover Image
Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviors
Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2021
While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in … relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533854
Cover Image
Religious attendance and COVID-19 : evidences from Italian regions
Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore; Vecchione, Gaetano - 2020
By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of many people, all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people approach toward the divine? Previous evidences suggest that the prayer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294706
Cover Image
Special Interests at the Ballot Box? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis
Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tillmann, Philipp - 2016
We study the connection between religion and political radicalization in Weimar Germany, where the Catholic Church …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147644
Cover Image
Religiosity, smoking and other risky behaviors
Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2022
While under communism the identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth … relates to risky behaviors like smoking, drinking, and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or … found strongly for both males and females, those females doubting or reflecting religion show a somewhat smaller risky …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166804