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Full-Text Articles in Sociology of Religion
Assessment Of Religious Motivation And Its Effects On Health Related Behaviors, John Austin Davis
Assessment Of Religious Motivation And Its Effects On Health Related Behaviors, John Austin Davis
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The belief that one’s religious behavior can influence health, either by formal offerings to religious shamans or the uttering of a prayer to an unseen deity, likely predates recorded history and finds its most basic beliefs expressed in Exodus 15:26, “I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord, your healer.” Findings and observations published in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s that some of the membership among the more conservative denominations with strict proscriptions regarding health behavior experience lower rates of cancer and heart disease supported this belief, …
On The Agenda, Alisa Solomon
On The Agenda, Alisa Solomon
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
This newsletter goes to press just as Millennium Mania is reaching its fever pitch. If my own dismissive attitude toward the doom-sayers turns out to be warranted, our computers have not collapsed, the sky has not fallen, and our newsletter has reached your address intact. Of course there's been more to the millennial madness than apocalyptic anxieties and mega-marketing opportunities for products and services of all sorts and sizes. The obsession with Y2K— which represents only one of the world's calendar systems, after all— has also marked the way in which a particular religious view increasingly passes for the secular …
If You Know Everything There Is To Know About Timbuktu: Faith And The Integrative Nature Of Culture, Larry L. Lichtenwalter
If You Know Everything There Is To Know About Timbuktu: Faith And The Integrative Nature Of Culture, Larry L. Lichtenwalter
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society
No abstract provided.
Divorce And Remarriage In The Old Testament: A Fresh Look At Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Richard M. Davidson
Divorce And Remarriage In The Old Testament: A Fresh Look At Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Richard M. Davidson
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society
No abstract provided.