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Religion is not just for churches, synagogues or mosques anymore -- it's a topic that is being actively searched for online, according to researchers at Penn State. http://www.physorg.com/news179403998.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:50:01 EST news179403998 (PhysOrg.com) -- How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender, reports a new Cornell study. http://www.physorg.com/news178384744.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:30:03 EST news178384744 (PhysOrg.com) -- The nature of the American religious experience is changing as a rising number of people report having no formal religious affiliation, even though the number of Americans who say they pray is increasing, according to a new survey from the University of Chicago. http://www.physorg.com/news176210945.html Other Sciences Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:35:18 EST news176210945 (PhysOrg.com) -- UA graduate student Rita Law's study to evaluate long-term effects of marital status and church attendance is among very few that have considered such a correlation. http://www.physorg.com/news174145884.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:10:01 EST news174145884 (AP) -- Democrats in Congress are trying to counter another Supreme Court decision on employment discrimination, this time taking aim at a ruling that makes it harder for older workers to prove age bias. http://www.physorg.com/news174067844.html Other Sciences Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:20:05 EST news174067844 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news173634551.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:50:07 EST news173634551 University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Lee Meadows, Ph.D., is author of a new book that claims it's possible to teach evolution without offending students who have strong religious convictions against the theory. http://www.physorg.com/news173554459.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:35:21 EST news173554459 Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes. http://www.physorg.com/news172416619.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00:01 EST news172416619 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 Central's open access journal Reproductive Health have found a strong association between teenage birth rates and state-level measures of religiosity in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news172389544.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:20:01 EST news172389544 (PhysOrg.com) -- College students who major in the social sciences and humanities are likely to become less religious, while those majoring in education are likely to become more religious. http://www.physorg.com/news168270368.html Other Sciences Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:00:01 EST news168270368 Older African American women may attend religious services more often than African American men, but men spend more hours per week in other activities at church, a new University of Michigan study found. http://www.physorg.com/news163779638.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:21:29 EST news163779638 (AP) -- A new felony arrest warrant was issued Thursday as the search continued for the Minnesota mother who fled with her 13-year-old cancer-stricken son to avoid chemotherapy treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news162128603.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 12:43:42 EST news162128603 (AP) -- A courtroom clash between medicine and faith took a criminal turn, with police around the country on the lookout Wednesday for a Minnesota mother who fled with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son rather than consent to chemotherapy. http://www.physorg.com/news162060112.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 May 2009 17:42:19 EST news162060112 College students' views about evolution and creationism are often shaped by what they learned in their high school biology classes, according to a University of Minnesota study published in the May issue of BioScience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news160402697.html Other Sciences Fri, 01 May 2009 13:18:48 EST news160402697 It is not uncommon for prison inmates to experience religious conversions. Now a new University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study, out in the April issue of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, suggests that inmates who have positive social support networks are more likely to maintain their religious conversions. http://www.physorg.com/news160401448.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 12:57:51 EST news160401448 Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it's only natural that many of them will be using their gadgets to help them enrich their spiritual life as well. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a mobile application known as Sun Dial, which alerts Muslim users when it's time to perform the five daily prayers known as salat. The device is currently being discussed this week at the human-computer interaction conference, CHI, in Boston. http://www.physorg.com/news158206723.html Technology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:19:15 EST news158206723 A significant minority of psychiatrists and therapists are still attempting to help lesbian, gay and bisexual clients become heterosexual despite lack of evidence that such treatment is beneficial or even safe, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. http://www.physorg.com/news157274295.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:19:17 EST news157274295 In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that those who draw on religion to cope with their illness are more likely to receive intensive, life-prolonging medical care as death approaches -- treatment that often entails a lower quality of life in patients' final days. http://www.physorg.com/news156528099.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:04:38 EST news156528099 The historical person Jesus of Nazareth - beyond the accounts in the creeds and the Gospels, which are all characterized by religious belief - is the focus of Tobias Hägerland's dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jesus' proclamation of the forgiveness of sins is the key to understanding how he perceived his own identity: as the Prophet-Messiah of the end-time, with a message to the Jewish people in the first century CE. http://www.physorg.com/news155939776.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:36:39 EST news155939776 Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers. http://www.physorg.com/news155404273.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:52:03 EST news155404273 In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Jeremy Ginges and Ian Hansen from the New School for Social Research along with psychologist Ara Norenzayan from the University of British Columbia conducted a series of experiments investigating the relationship between religion and support for acts of parochial altruism, including suicide attacks. Suicide attacks are an extreme form of "parochial altruism" - they combine a parochial act (the attacker killing members from other groups) with altruism (the attacker sacrificing themselves for the group). http://www.physorg.com/news154200893.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:35:37 EST news154200893 Charles Darwin is widely thought to have developed his natural selection theory of evolution after noting differences among finches in the Galapagos Islands. http://www.physorg.com/news153932038.html Biology Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:54:19 EST news153932038 The hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to being a renowned cell biologist, Goodenough is a religious naturalist and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature, a bestselling book on religious naturalism that was published in 1998. http://www.physorg.com/news153903560.html Biology Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:00:25 EST news153903560 (PhysOrg.com) -- Though it has gained a reputation for being closed off to the outside world, new research shows China has a long history of multiculturalism that extends back to the dynastic era. http://www.physorg.com/news151256453.html Other Sciences Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:40:53 EST news151256453 Self-control is critical for success in life, and a new study by University of Miami professor of Psychology Michael McCullough finds that religious people have more self-control than do their less religious counterparts. These findings imply that religious people may be better at pursuing and achieving long-term goals that are important to them and their religious groups. This, in turn, might help explain why religious people tend to have lower rates of substance abuse, better school achievement, less delinquency, better health behaviors, less depression, and longer lives. http://www.physorg.com/news149861062.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:04:22 EST news149861062 New research suggests that relatively recent events had a substantial impact on patterns of genetic diversity in the southwest region of Europe. The study, published by Cell Press on December 4th in the American Journal of Human Genetics, shows that geographical patterns of ancestry appear to have been influenced by religious conversions of both Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. http://www.physorg.com/news147615923.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:25:23 EST news147615923 A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately 20 percent. The findings, published in Psychology and Health, were based on data drawn from participants who spanned numerous religious denominations. http://www.physorg.com/news146400067.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:41:07 EST news146400067 (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 of Toronto research. http://www.physorg.com/news144677225.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:07:05 EST news144677225 Those who worship a higher power often do so in different ways. Whether they are active in their religious community, or prefer to simply pray or meditate, new research out of Temple University suggests that a person's religiousness - also called religiosity - can offer insight into their risk for depression. http://www.physorg.com/news143979823.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:23:43 EST news143979823 Although Sarah Palin's entry into the 2008 presidential race has energized the religious right within the Republican Party, don't expect religion to be a major issue in this year's election, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) political communications expert Larry Powell, Ph.D. The move away from overt religious appeals may be due to an effort to avoid what Powell calls the "Pharisee Effect." http://www.physorg.com/news140178742.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:32:22 EST news140178742