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There is growing recognition of the importance of religion and religious beliefs as they relate to the experience of … dis-ease and misfortune widespread in Papua New Guinea. Understanding the centrality of Christianity to explanations of …
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In contrast to the prevailing preconception, Christian females engage in polygyny in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Based … mission station, Livingstonia, enabled the indigenous population to gradually convert to Christianity. This is particularly … practicing other religions (Islam and other) or no religion, Christian females are indeed less likely to form polygynous unions …
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Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2011: The State and Religion in China: Buddhism, Christianity, and …
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modernism replacing Christianity as the dominant worldview in western society. Next, we make the case that guiding assumptions … (or faith) is inherent in every worldview, system of thought, or religion and also show that scientific reason can never …
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The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative...
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British attitudes towards homosexuality have changed with astonishing rapidity over recent decades. Society has managed to assimilate these shifts with relative ease. The Christian churches, however, as repositories of tradition and defenders of inherited values, have been finding it...
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’s Dilemma games, it also is a byproduct of religion, tradition, shared historical experience, and other types of cultural norms …
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