Religious Affiliation, Church Attendance, Religious Education and Student Attitudes toward Race

1969 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Burnham ◽  
John F. Connors ◽  
Richard C. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation

Church Attendance, Religious Affiliation and Parental Responses to Sudden Infant Death, Neonatal Death and Stillbirth

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Thearle ◽  
J. C. Vance ◽  
J. M. Najman ◽  
G. Embelton ◽  
W. J. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Infant Death ◽  
Neonatal Death ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Religion And Health ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
A Prospective Study

There is an association between religion and health: those who are religious have healthier life-styles resulting in less physical illness and improved longevity. Some evidence shows that there may be a beneficial association between religion and psychological well-being. With bereavement, some may “turn to God” while others “turn away from God”; this occurrence may be reflected in their church attendance. In a prospective study, families who had experienced death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Neonatal Death, or Stillbirth were compared for anxiety, depression, and church attendance with control families who had not experienced such bereavement A traditionally held belief that religion offers consolation for the grief of bereavement and that the bereaved “turn to God” as reflected in church attendance was not confirmed. There is the suggestion that the bereaved who attend church regularly have less anxiety and depression compared with the irregular or non-church attenders.

Theology Mediating Social Capital: Ordinary Theology, Motivation and Relationships

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Michael Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Attention

The concept of social capital and its use as a sociological tool has received considerable attention and continues to provide insights into various aspects of community life. Social capital offers a means to study beneficial and detrimental aspects of relationships away from economic or rationalist reduction. Although social capital and religious affiliation has seen significant attention in the literature, there has been little research into the relationship between theology and social capital. In this article, theology and social capital is explored through a qualitative ethnographic study of an Australian faith-based organisation. It is argued that ordinary theology, defined as the beliefs found in the language of believers without scholarly religious education (Astley 2002) mediates social capital. The ordinary theology of the volunteers, which I callaction-driven theologywas found to mediate bridging social capital with refugees through developing theologically significant relationships.

Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility in Rural Women

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 673-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Hertsgaard ◽  
Harriett Light
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Affect Adjective

760 randomly selected women residing on farms in a mid-western srate were administered the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List to explore factors affecting their depression, anxiety, and hostility scores. Anxiety scores were significantly correlated with hostility scores and with depression scores, as were hostility scores with depression scores. Factors that appeared to affect depression scores were presence and age of children in the home, church attendance, religious affiliation, involvement in decision making, contact with friends, and husbands' educational level. Anxiety scores appeared to be affected by presence and age of children, subjects' age, church attendance, religious affiliation, decision making and husbands' education. Hostility appeared to be affected by presence and age of children, subjects' age, decision making, contact with friends, and husbands' educational level.

New Trends in Religious Liberty and the European Court of Human Rights

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
European Convention ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Right

This article analyses recent trends in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights concerned with the right to freedom of thought, belief and religion (Article 9, European Convention on Human Rights) and the right of parents to respect by the state for their religious and philosophical views in the education of their children (Article 2, Protocol 1).1 These developments include notable decisions concerned with protection from religious persecution in Georgia, with religious education in Norway and Turkey and with the display of crucifixes in state schools in Italy. It is apparent that the European Convention religious liberty jurisprudence increasingly stresses the role of the state as a neutral protector of religious freedom. For individuals religious freedom is now also recognised to include not only the right to manifest their religious belief but also freedom from having to declare their religious affiliation. As the religious liberty jurisprudence comes of age, other significant developments, for example in relation to conscientious objection to military service, can be anticipated.

Religion and Suicidal Ideation in a Sample of Latin American Immigrants

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Hovey
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Latin American Immigrants

The present study explored the association of measures of religious activities and suicidal ideation in a sample of adult Latin American immigrants (145 women, 56 men). No relationship was found between religious affiliation and suicidal ideation. Self-perception of religiosity, influence of religion, and church attendance were significantly negatively associated with suicidal ideation. A multiple regression analysis showed that influence of religion was a significant predictor of suicidal ideation. The present findings lend empirical support to the notion that high religiosity may play a protective role against suicide.

Religious attitudes among British older people: stability and change in a 20-year longitudinal study

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER G. COLEMAN ◽  
CHRISTINE IVANI-CHALIAN ◽  
MAUREEN ROBINSON
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Beliefs And Practice ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Almost All

Britain along with other western European countries has seen a marked decrease in allegiance to traditional forms of Christianity during the latter part of the 20th century. Although church attendance remains relatively high among older people compared with younger age groups, there has been little or no investigation into the stability or change of people's religious belief and practice with increasing age. This paper present findings on these issues from the Southampton Ageing Project, which from 1977–78 to 2002 followed 342 people almost all of whom had had an entirely Christian religious education and all of whom at the outset were aged 65 or more years. Although religion has continued to have considerable meaning in the lives of up to one-half of the participants, approximately one-quarter of the sample expressed a declining commitment to a religious faith and to church membership. The participants' accounts of their recent life experiences, for example following bereavement, give instances of disappointment with the support that they received from institutional religion and show that this was a factor in their declining adherence. They also provide suggestions for further investigation into the origin of this decline. The conclusion argues that the study of older people's religious and spiritual beliefs and practice should be integrated with the investigation of self and identity and of sources of existential meaning in later life.

Relation of fertility to religious affiliation and to church attendance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1951–54

1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
Lee R. Dice ◽  
Philip J. Clark ◽  
Robert I. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Ann Arbor

Religious Affiliation, Church Attendance and Social Attitudes

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1097-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Josefowitz ◽  
Kevin Marjoribanks
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
English Students

A conservation scale was administered to 219 17-yr.-old English students to examine the relations between religious affiliations, church attendance, and social attitudes. The results provided support for the proposition that students who expressed a religious affiliation and attended church had more conservative attitudes than students without a religious affiliation and who did not attend church.

scholarly journals A CATHOLIC VIEW OF INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN THE TIME OF POPE FRANCIS

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Mato Zovkić
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Role Of Religion

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) drew the attention of Catholics to human dignity of non-Christian believers who have right to their religious identity. After the Council Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI established and supported the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue with the task to study other religions as they perceive themselves and to organize friendly encounters with their representatives. Pope Francis, elected on 13 March 2013, brought into his ministry the experience of a Church leader in South America. This is why in his teaching documents, encounters and discourses he points out the social role of religion (Evangelii Gaudium, nos 176-258), the need for preserving environment as our common home (Laudato si, 199-245) and special pastoral care of couples in mixed marriages as believers who can practice interreligious dialogue by persevering in their religious affiliation (Amoris Laetitia, 247-248). On his apostolic journeys to Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Egypt he met representatives of civil authorities and Muslim religious leaders. Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al Tayeb gave him the opportunity to address the Muslim participants at the Peace Conference in Cairo on 28 April 2017. Pope Francis’s acts and speeches can inspire Religious Education teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina to develop respective religious identities in their students by preserving shared values and introducing them to universal ethics.

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