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Religion as a variable with an impact on sexual behavior has emerged in the Brazilian literature as two changes are … religion on sexuality has been investigated by international researchers for nearly half a century. Given the growing interest … present paper seeks to review the national and international literature on links among religion, religiosity and adolescent …
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The aim of the present study is to identify profiles of testimonies published in the newspaper column "Miracles of Faith" from the "Folha Universal" - Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD). We used content analysis, the survey methodology and the method Grade of Membership (GoM) to identify...
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The following study uses two approaches to judge whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to compare the variation of the Gini coefficient in Brazil with what was observed in several countries that today belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Where are the brotherhoods of the Patriarchate of Lisbon? Why are these brotherhoods located in such spaces? The present work answers to these two questions, being a pioneer attempt about the thematic, in Portugal. Through the empirical validation recurring to logit models, this paper identifies...
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One of the most important models of rational choice to religion is the one presented by Durkin and Greeley. The authors … Religion Project Brazil 2002. Two dependent variables were used in the tests: attendance and religious faith. Both were … positively influenced by the age of individuals and the fact that both spouses have the same religion. The religious attendance …
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The modern landmark for the Economics of Religion is the model proposed by Azzi and Ehrenberg in 1975 to religious …
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This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also...
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This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also...
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This work aims to present the Economics of Religion. The methodology used is a literature review. Shows the importance … of religion from the perspective of Economics . It addresses the connections between Economics of Religion and Rational … between the Economics of Religion and the Secularization Thesis, emphasizing, mainly, the empirical reality of the persistence …
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