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Religions, Volume 12, Issue 2

February 2021 - 78 articles

Cover Story: When people pray, do they believe that God is listening? Some people do, and they may even believe that God goes a step further, providing guidance or giving them personal messages. In other cases, though, people might experience God as being silent: not speaking and perhaps not even paying attention or hearing their prayers. Our aim in this project was to create a brief (8-item) measure of people’s perceptions of divine engagement and disengagement in response to prayer. We also performed initial validity tests in an undergraduate sample. Results suggested that this new measure showed good (though still preliminary) evidence of reliability and validity. Broadly speaking, we found that the measure predicted positive, negative, and distance-related aspects of a person’s perceived relationship with God, even when controlling other variables related to how people perceive and relate to God. View this paper.
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Articles (78)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,036 Views
15 Pages

16 February 2021

The aim of this article is to propose the adoption of a Catholic social teaching (CST) perspective as a universal approach to business ethics. We assume that the common good, as understood in CST, is an extension of the Aristotelian and Thomistic con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,035 Views
22 Pages

15 February 2021

For centuries, various denominations of Christian missionaries have contributed in a larger way towards the spread of Christianity among the people of Indian sub-continent. Each Church had its own principles of preaching the word of God and undertook...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,312 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2021

In this article, I examine two memoirs by the American Zen Buddhist author Shozan Jack Haubner. Within the contemporary genre of American Zen autobiographical literature, Haubner’s books are special in that they explore Zen awakening as driven by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,047 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2021

The paper identifies the measure of pain monastic Christian ascetics in medieval central Europe inflicted on themselves to express the right measure of love for God. I ask whether the measure of pain had significance; whether a ratio existed between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,618 Views
15 Pages

13 February 2021

This research aims to analyze cultural diversity and its relationship with the personal belief in an Immigrant Parish. The discussion is framed within the topic of intercultural churches and parishes, although in a setting that has not been researche...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,334 Views
15 Pages

13 February 2021

In this essay, I recount the recent narrative of an evangelical awakening on issues of sexual violence though the impact of Rachael Denhollander, an advocate and survivor of sexual trauma. Denhollander’s evangelical credentials authorized fellow US e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,307 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2021

Conventional accounts of Zhuangzi’s concept of fate are limited to only a certain aspect of it. At the same time, they seem to be mutually contradictory. This essay investigates this concept afresh based on textual analysis and elucidates Zhuangzi’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,003 Views
10 Pages

Similarities and Differences between Danish and American Physicians’ Religious Characteristics and Clinical Communication: Two Cross-Sectional Surveys

  • Christian B. van Randwijk,
  • Tobias Opsahl,
  • Elisabeth Assing Hvidt,
  • Tobias Kvist Stripp,
  • Lars Bjerrum,
  • Jørn Herrstedt,
  • Jens Søndergaard and
  • Niels Christian Hvidt

11 February 2021

Many physicians remain reticent to initiate or partake in discussions about their patients’ religious and spiritual needs during the clinical encounter. Reasons for this may be insufficient time, capacity, education or training but may also be a prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,151 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2021

By reporting findings from Wave 6 of the World Values Survey, this paper presents a renewed understanding of the relationship between religiosity and individual agency that is defined as sense of control (SOC) in life. In doing so, it proposes two co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,642 Views
13 Pages

10 February 2021

This paper examines how the editors and contributors to Christianity Today (CT) called for an evangelical sexual ethics in the 1960s. Editors and contributors alike were concerned that the supposed sexual immorality on college campuses, the liberaliz...

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Religions - ISSN 2077-1444