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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
13 Citations
4,588 Views
14 Pages

10 February 2021

This paper explores the role of activism as an inflection point for engagement with religious and cultural identity by younger generations of Sikhs in the US. The response of young Sikh activists and the effects on the community are examined in the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,715 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2021

This essay attempts to approach the dharma talks of Korean Seon Master Daehaeng (1927–2012) from a modern scientific perspective. In particular, it tries to articulate depth psychological elements which belong to or which are relevant in some way to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,240 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2021

What is the relationship between Zen experience and language? Is Zen awakening/enlightenment ineffable? In this article, I will address this general question by providing a panoramic treatment of Dōgen’s (道元) philosophy of language which Hee-Jin Kim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,467 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2021

This article explores the relationship between communication technology and religion. While previous research has focused on how religious institutions and individuals use digital media, this article emphasizes the religious feelings digital media se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,265 Views
21 Pages

The Trend to Discriminate Christians: Shifting from the ‘Post-Christian’ West to the Global South

  • Nataliya S. Semenova,
  • Ekaterina V. Kiseleva and
  • Aleksandr M. Solntsev

6 February 2021

To date, various international treaties have been adopted at the universal and regional levels, guaranteeing the protection of every person’s freedom of conscience and religion. Moreover, international monitoring mechanisms have been established to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,113 Views
18 Pages

5 February 2021

This article uses the increasing visibility of Arab non-believers in the virtual public sphere as an opportunity to re-examine the key issues and dividing lines between believers, sceptics, and non-believers in Arab societies. It analyzes the current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
13,245 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2021

This paper explores the religious projection and ethical appeal in the art and literature of Leda and the Swan created from ancient times to the contemporary era, so as to make a comparative review and reading on it, providing religious reflection an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,067 Views
16 Pages

4 February 2021

This work aims to show that the sacrificial status of the victims of acts of terrorism, such as the 2004 Madrid train bombings (“11-M”) and ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty) attacks in Spain, is determined by how it is interpreted by the communities...

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Religions - ISSN 2077-1444