News tagged with religious
Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...
Prayer on the hospital floor
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2009 |
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What happens when the families of sick and dying hospitalized children ask their physicians to pray with them, or for them? How do pediatricians respond to such personal requests? While increasing numbers of physicians say ...
Medical team's support of terminal cancer patients' spiritual needs improves quality of life
Dec 15, 2009 |
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In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found support of patients' spiritual needs by the medical team is associated with greater use of hospice, less aggressive care, ...
Web searches for religious topics on the rise
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 07, 2009 |
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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.
Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(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.
Growth in secular attitudes leaves Americans room for belief in God
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 31, 2009 |
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(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, ...
Church Attendance, Marital Status Can Affect Mood of Older Adults
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(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.
Bill would counter Supreme Court age bias ruling
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(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.
Where religious belief and disbelief meet in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(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.
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 ...
Public opinion a good predictor of terror attacks: study
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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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.
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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 ...
Study shows how college major and religious faith affect each other
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(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.
Older black men feel productive, achieve prestige at church
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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.
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.
