News tagged with religious convictions
UAB professor's book promises solution for teaching evolution without conflict
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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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 ...
New warrant issued for Minn. mom in chemo dispute
May 21, 2009 |
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(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.
Police look for mom, son who fled to avoid chemo
May 20, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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Trust your gut? Study explores religion, morality and trust in authority
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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In a world filled with dogma, doctrine and discipline, it is accurate to say most of us strive to do what we believe is "right." These convictions and beliefs permeate every aspect of our lives, including education, ethics ...
Religion and medicine: Sometimes a healing prescription
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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Do pediatric oncologists feel that religion is a bridge or a barrier to their work? Or do they feel it can be either, depending on whether their patients are recovering or deteriorating? A novel Brandeis University study ...
Exonerations correct only a small fraction of false convictions
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown—in fact, unknowable. A new University of Michigan study challenges that belief in one important context.
Palin, religion, the 2008 election
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 09, 2008 |
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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 ...
Study finds link between political corruption and FEMA money
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Where natural disasters strike, political corruption is soon to follow, say the authors of a study in the Journal of Law and Economics. But it's not the wind and rain that turns good folks bad; it's the money that floods ...
Study finds social support key
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May 01, 2009 |
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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 Cr ...
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Collective religious rituals, not religious devotion, spur support for suicide attacks
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Feb 18, 2009 |
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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 t ...
Older black men feel productive, achieve prestige at church
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Jun 09, 2009 |
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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.
Religious belief and devotion linked to sense of personal control
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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(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.
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