... representative surveys to measure in detail multiple dimensions of religion and politics.
Religious beliefs affected political participation more than other measures of religious behavior. In ...
... and other countries, care for patients of diverse backgrounds. This is accelerating the need for reliable information on the interaction of religious beliefs and compliance with prescribed treatments.
... who had both legalized and participated in a commitment ceremony.
Having children and identifying religious beliefs as being very important in their daily life were the strongest predictors that a ...
... discriminate against gays and lesbians in medical treatment, even if the procedures being sought conflict with physicians' religious beliefs, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday.
Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- An individual's level of commitment to religious rituals like praying and attending service is directly linked to their sense of personal control in life, according to new University ...
... religion and support suicide attacks is real but is unrelated to devotion to particular religious beliefs or religious belief in general. Instead, collective religious ritual appears to facilitate ...
Researchers have discovered that general networks of the brain are responsible for religious beliefs.
Researchers report a strong association between religious orientation and a desire for aggressive care at the end of life.
Hilda Schau says it's a belief in God that carried her through divorce and job loss. Urologist Manuel Padron says he regularly sees the power of faith at work in his patients.
... as other religious schools.
"Religious school attendance is not necessarily indicative of conservative religious beliefs because students attend these schools for a variety of reasons," Adamczyk ...
The United States needs more scientists like Francis Collins—researchers who show by their prominence and their example that a good scientist can still retain religious beliefs.
Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that the process of believing or disbelieving a statement, whether religious or not, seems to be governed by the same areas in the brain.
... versa, the brains of both showed the same pattern of activity for belief and disbelief.
A comparison of all religious with all nonreligious statements suggested that religious thinking is more ...
