Posts Tagged ‘religion’
Welcome to the USA: Do religious groups play unique role?
RICE (US) — Despite different motivations, religious and nonreligious organizations may have a similar effect on the ability of immigrants to acclimate to life in the US, new research suggests. Continue…
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Society & Culture - Mar 18, 2013 9:19 - 2 Comments
In US, 20 percent now say ‘no religion’
UC BERKELEY / DUKE (US) — Last year, one in five Americans claimed no religious preference—more than double the number reported in 1990. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 11, 2013 10:45 - 4 Comments
After meditation, conservatives lean left
U. TORONTO (CAN) — After a spiritual exercise like meditation, people endorse more liberal views, new research shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 8, 2013 17:14 - 0 Comments
Christianity influences meat taboos in Amazon
STANFORD (US) — Christianity has changed the hunting habits and diets of native Amazonians, which could alter biodiversity in the region. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 25, 2013 14:30 - 2 Comments
In South and GOP, whites more likely to claim racism
STANFORD (US) — White Republicans and Southern evangelicals are most likely to claim reverse discrimination, but not because of a shared ideology, research shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 8, 2013 13:04 - 1 Comment
Despite thoughts of death, atheists don’t waver
U. MISSOURI (US) — Similar to religious believers, atheists and agnostics’ conviction grows stronger with an increased awareness of death. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 4, 2013 14:29 - 0 Comments
African-American Hoodoo: more than magic
RUTGERS (US) — The tradition of herbal healing known as Hoodoo is about more than using hex-breaking oils and candles to ward off bad vibes, according to a new book by scholar Katrina Hazzard-Donald. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 17, 2012 11:11 - 5 Comments
Modern math solves Ramanujan’s ‘vision’
EMORY / YALE / STANFORD (US) — Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s death-bed letter from 1920 has yielded a formula that could help physicists studying black holes. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 30, 2012 15:23 - 2 Comments
Plagiarism software tracks anti-Muslim bias
UNC-CHAPEL HILL / U. MICHIGAN (US) — Since 9/11, organizations using fear and anger to spread negative messages about Muslims have moved from the fringes of public discourse into the mainstream media, research shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 20, 2012 12:40 - 8 Comments
US families split among four ‘cultures’
U. VIRGINIA (US) — American kids are growing up in one of four cultures—family types that go beyond basic demographics—a new study finds. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 22, 2012 11:26 - 0 Comments
Religion’s impact grows for wealthy white voters
CORNELL (US) — Religion’s influence on voter choice intensified between the 1980 and 2008 elections, but only among upper-income white Protestants and Catholics, a new study shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 21, 2012 14:19 - 0 Comments
Easy policies let more kids go vaccine-free
EMORY (US) — From 2005 to 2011, non-medical exemptions from school-based vaccines increased at a heightened rate, report researchers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 11, 2012 14:28 - 4 Comments
AIDS in Africa: Does religion get a bad rap?
PENN STATE (US) — Criticisms of how religious groups are mishandling Africa’s AIDS epidemic are inaccurate and overstated, according to sociologist Jenny Trinitapoli. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 22, 2012 10:01 - 5 Comments
Make room for faith in healthcare, study says
U. MISSOURI (US) — Despite differences in rituals and beliefs among the world’s major religions, a new study shows that spirituality often enhances health regardless of a person’s faith. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 15, 2012 14:31 - 5 Comments
Science and faith: Geologist investigates floods
U. WASHINGTON (US) — The idea that scientific reason and religious faith are somehow at odds “is, in my view, a false dichotomy,” says a geologist whose new book explores religious accounts of floods. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 31, 2012 9:14 - 7 Comments
Book: Fear of Muslims ‘disfigures’ the West
U. CHICAGO (US) — The West, battered by fears of terrorism, needs to turn a critical eye inward to stem an irrational suspicion of Muslims, a new book argues. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 27, 2012 12:56 - 0 Comments
To make magic ritual work: Add steps. Repeat.
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — The more time and effort a supernatural ritual takes, the more people will believe in its logic and effectiveness, researchers say. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 6, 2012 15:19 - 22 Comments
Ban on headscarves may limit freedoms
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — A new book takes an in-depth look at the growing controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves in public places. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 5, 2012 15:01 - 0 Comments
Dig unearths 4th century biblical mosaic
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods (c. 4th-6th centuries CE) has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. (more…)
