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1 Citations
3,876 Views
18 Pages

29 May 2023

Despite economic development and social changes, folk religion in China has not died out, but has survived and has even experienced a revival. Oscillating state policies have in general had a strong impact on religion in China. Though there is no off...

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2 Citations
3,547 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2022

Although at first sight Eastern Christianity is not associated with Africa, the African continent has shaped the establishment and development of three of the four main Eastern Christian traditions. Through a sociological lens, we examine the identit...

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4 Citations
4,544 Views
13 Pages

15 October 2021

Is religion and faith in today’s economically and culturally globalized modern society just a conservative experience, tradition, and sentiment, or an anthropological universal, the primary essence of every individual and collective identity and a pr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,395 Views
14 Pages

Exploring Social Skills in Students of Diverse Cultural Identities in Primary Education

  • María Tomé-Fernández,
  • Eva María Aranda-Vega and
  • José Manuel Ortiz-Marcos

23 August 2024

Social skills are crucial to the personal development and academic success of elementary school students. Through competencies such as empathy, conflict resolution, leadership, and self-esteem, students learn to interact effectively and adapt to dive...

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2 Citations
2,495 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2023

This study explores the relationship between linguistic behaviors of Americans of Southwest Asian or North African descent (SWANA Americans) and their ethnic rootedness, religion, and locality. SWANA Americans are an understudied community in the fie...

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5 Citations
5,166 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2019

This paper deals with analysis of gender issues in an ethnic religious system in Western China, the religion of the Tu ethnic group. We focused on gender in Tu religion, which entailed documenting gender dynamics in three major ethnographic domains t...

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5 Citations
7,509 Views
27 Pages

20 January 2021

Civil religion refers to a country’s beliefs, symbols, and rituals that bolster national unity and strengthen its citizens’ sense of identity and belonging. However, the literature on civil religion is divided between those who attribute...

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34 Citations
8,620 Views
18 Pages

Socio-Cultural and Economic Drivers of Plant and Animal Protein Consumption in Malaysia: The SCRiPT Study

  • Adam Drewnowski,
  • Elise Mognard,
  • Shilpi Gupta,
  • Mohd Noor Ismail,
  • Norimah A. Karim,
  • Laurence Tibère,
  • Cyrille Laporte,
  • Yasmine Alem,
  • Helda Khusun and
  • Jean-Pierre Poulain
  • + 1 author

25 May 2020

Countries in South East Asia are undergoing a nutrition transition, which typically involves a dietary shift from plant to animal proteins. To explore the main drivers of protein consumption, the SCRiPT (Socio Cultural Research in Protein Transition)...

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18 Citations
8,775 Views
27 Pages

17 June 2020

Much research considers group differences in religious belonging, behaving, and/or believing by gender, race, ethnicity, class, or sexuality. This study, however, considers all these factors at once, providing the first comprehensive snapshot of reli...

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2 Citations
5,251 Views
24 Pages

15 March 2023

The systematic study of misanthropy, the lack of trust in humanity, has proliferated over the last 30 years. One prominent line of research details racial and ethnic disparities in levels of misanthropy, but pays little attention to the role of relig...

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2 Citations
5,019 Views
16 Pages

6 August 2024

The mainstream literature on the religiosity of Muslims in Europe often homogenises this diverse minority. This article diverges by focusing on a less visible ethno-religious minority within the Muslim population, specifically examining how Hazara Sh...

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2 Citations
4,292 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2021

After 1945, the Republic of Poland appeared to be an ethnic monolith. However, this was (is) not the case for the Kashubians, who now live in northern Poland on the Baltic Sea. Presently, Kashubians do not have official status; they are not considere...

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3 Citations
6,179 Views
24 Pages

26 October 2020

Human populations confront three distinct climate challenges: (1) seasonal climate fluctuations, (2) sporadic climate crises, and (3) long term climate change. Religious systems often attribute climate crises to the behavior of invisible spirits. The...

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1,966 Views
13 Pages

12 August 2025

Federalism is a contemporary principle of constitutional organization, rooted mainly in Western constitutional traditions. It entails a system in which individual constituent states retain limited sovereignty and autonomy, while collectively forming...

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4 Citations
3,671 Views
19 Pages

29 September 2020

This article uses religious coping theory to theorize about how and why race and ethnic groups on death row frame religious last statements at the moment of imminent death. Unique data (N = 269) drawn from death row inmates in Texas between December...

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1 Citations
7,186 Views
18 Pages

1 March 2019

This study examined the accuracy of the various forecasting methods of the 2016 US Presidential Elections. The findings revealed a high accuracy in predicting the popular vote. However, this is most suitable in an electoral system which is not divide...

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4 Citations
5,479 Views
17 Pages

30 December 2015

Using data on adults ages 55 and over from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-2), this study models the main and interactive effects of religious involvement and race/ethnicity on four items of attitudes towards i...

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1 Citations
369 Views
19 Pages

Diversity and Experiences of Radiation Oncologists in Canada: A Survey of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Disability, Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Workplace Discrimination—A National Cross-Sectional Electronic Survey

  • Amanda F. Khan,
  • Stefan Allen,
  • Ian J. Gerard,
  • Rhys Beaudry,
  • Glen Bandiera,
  • David Bowes,
  • Jolie Ringash,
  • Reshma Jagsi,
  • Jennifer Croke and
  • Shaun K. Loewen

17 November 2025

Background: This study’s objective was to be the first to explore the ethnicity/cultural origins, gender identity, ability/disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and harassment/discrimination experiences of Canadian radiation...

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4,788 Views
20 Pages

19 November 2021

This thought experiment in comparison ponders a Black man’s conviction that his Hebrew identity would make him immune to COVID-19. Surfacing the history of the claims and the scholar’s own suspicions, the paper examines the layered politics of identi...

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14 Citations
12,577 Views
21 Pages

18 March 2015

In this paper, I analyze the contemporary role of the Black Church in the public sphere. Some argue that despite the historical role of the Black Church in addressing racial inequality, it should not be involved in the public sphere, as there should...

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4 Citations
3,090 Views
18 Pages

27 August 2019

This paper examines the persistence of intergenerational ties within Latinx Protestant Congregations (LPCs) and the implications these ties have for the persistence of LPCs as distinctly ethnic institutions. Though studies of generational transitions...

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2,720 Views
7 Pages

This paper examines the role of narrative as an avenue for critically unpacking family history. In this case, the narrative grows out of the preparation and performance of a one-person play, “A Conversation with Alana: One Boy’s Multicult...

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14 Citations
8,146 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2020

Spiritual and religious struggles emerge in times where life meaning is unclear, has changed or is challenged. Resilience has been addressed in terms of psychological, social, emotional and physical capacity or competence related to struggle. However...

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13 Citations
4,417 Views
17 Pages

The Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation of the SSSH Baseline Spirituality Survey

  • Erica T. Warner,
  • Blake Victor Kent,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • M. Austin Argentieri,
  • Wade C. Rowatt,
  • Kenneth Pargament,
  • Harold G. Koenig,
  • Lynn Underwood,
  • Shelley A. Cole and
  • Alexandra E. Shields
  • + 4 authors

25 February 2021

This paper describes the development and initial psychometric testing of the baseline Spirituality Survey (SS-1) from the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH). The SS-1 contains a mixture of items selected from validated existing scales a...

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3 Citations
2,450 Views
19 Pages

12 March 2024

Northwest Yunnan is nested in the border areas of Tibet, Myanmar, and Southwest China. The religiously and ethnically diverse region has astonishingly seen a lack of “conflict”, as is often assumed in regions of ethnic and religious diffe...

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42 Citations
7,793 Views
14 Pages

Purpose: Although the protective effect of social support against depression is well known, limited information exists on racial differences in this association. The current study examined Black-White differences in the effects of religious and secul...

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9 Citations
8,193 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2018

This study examines the extent to which confessional identities in Lebanon are responsible for shaping individual views toward their government. Specifically, I investigate disparities between religious groups in their perceptions of democracy and de...

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7 Citations
5,041 Views
23 Pages

2 January 2023

This study involves the analysis of the residential segregation patterns in Jakarta, Indonesia, one of the largest global metropolitan cities. Our objective is to determine whether similarities in religion or socioeconomic status are more dominant in...

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2 Citations
2,695 Views
18 Pages

7 October 2024

In NT scholarship, the Paul Within Judaism approach has gained considerable momentum. In this approach to Paul’s discourse on identity, a distinction is drawn between “Jewish” and gentile followers of Christ. “Jewish” fo...

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2,403 Views
21 Pages

27 February 2025

This paper explores the intersection of race, religion, and colonial legacies through the lens of the Oruro Carnival, examining its role in shaping Bolivian identity. Critical religion scholars argue that the entanglement of race and religion is a pr...

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3 Citations
5,022 Views
24 Pages

13 January 2023

According to my study, “political secularism” means the separation of political power from religious institutions, while “social secularism” is a theory and endeavor to eliminate religiosity from not only public but also priva...

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8 Citations
6,360 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2023

Religion influencing politics and politics impacting religion to achieve its own, very non-religious, goals are determining the reality of contemporary states and of global politics. Mutual relations between religion and nationalism have proven to be...

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1 Citations
2,114 Views
11 Pages

28 June 2024

The Zhuang people, a significant ethnic minority in China, practise a unique Mo religion that profoundly shapes their spiritual and daily lives. Although the theology and rituals of the Mo religion have been extensively studied, its temporal perspect...

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2,713 Views
28 Pages

11 October 2025

In many countries across the Western world, religion is in decline, with public secular environments increasingly outweighing family-based religious socialization. Canada and West Germany exemplify this trend, where younger generations often perceive...

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9 Citations
3,775 Views
14 Pages

Beliefs of UK Transplant Recipients about Living Kidney Donation and Transplantation: Findings from a Multicentre Questionnaire-Based Case–Control Study

  • Pippa K. Bailey,
  • Fergus J. Caskey,
  • Stephanie MacNeill,
  • Charles Tomson,
  • Frank J. M. F. Dor and
  • Yoav Ben-Shlomo

21 December 2019

Differing beliefs about the acceptability of living-donor kidney transplants (LDKTs) have been proposed as explaining age, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in their uptake. We investigated whether certain patient groups hold beliefs incompatible...

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7 Citations
2,666 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2022

This paper discusses the protagonism expressed by immigrant women in religion via a series of leadership roles and expands on this theme by considering the pandemic as an emblematic period in which such female activism revealed itself. While the lite...

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2,449 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2024

Tibetan Muslims, as a unique ethnic group, hold significant religious, anthropological, and sociological value. This article examines the social functions of Islamic beliefs through questionnaires and structured interviews, focusing on the Tibetan Mu...

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5 Citations
16,412 Views
14 Pages

23 January 2018

This paper explores the role of a specific religious actor, namely Christian churches, in the nexus of religion and genocide in Rwanda. Four factors are identified that point to the churches’ complicity in creating and sustaining the conditions in wh...

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9 Citations
6,071 Views
15 Pages

Cyberbullying Analysis in Intercultural Educational Environments Using Binary Logistic Regressions

  • José Manuel Ortiz-Marcos,
  • María Tomé-Fernández and
  • Christian Fernández-Leyva

9 January 2021

The goal of this study is to analyze how religion, ethnic group, and race influence the likelihood of becoming either a cybervictim or cyberbully in intercultural educational environments. In the research, 755 students in secondary education were ana...

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3 Citations
4,362 Views
15 Pages

25 April 2024

Over the past decades, Iran has been witnessing the growth of a burgeoning feminist movement. With its origins deeply rooted in the early 20th century, the Iranian feminist movement, as such, is not a uniform body: it embodies various, opposing even,...

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3 Citations
5,944 Views
15 Pages

7 June 2023

This article examines the revitalization of the ancient Greek religion in modern Greece and the way some of its adherents approach mythology. This religious movement challenges the dominant religious discourse in modern Greece by claiming legitimacy...

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1 Citations
6,179 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2018

In the discussion of migrant integration into local settings, most scholars agree on the positive linkages between religion and the construction of ethnic identity. However, beyond church and mosque, there appears to be a gap in the research of the r...

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2 Citations
4,169 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2020

The development of transportation and technology has spread human movements more quickly and widely. As a result, our societies are becoming more complex, composed of people of more diverse races, cultures, religions, and languages. In this study, we...

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8 Citations
7,008 Views
23 Pages

10 September 2024

This paper examines what best explains political behavior in a deeply divided society. Despite the democratic nature of the Israeli political system, we suggest that Israel’s society is characterized by social affiliations mainly defined by soc...

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14 Citations
3,741 Views
18 Pages

26 March 2022

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, religious services worldwide were forced to migrate online. This phenomenon is still yet to be properly investigated, especially in the context of religious and ethnic minorities: a research gap that this paper aims...

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19 Citations
6,182 Views
12 Pages

Objective. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between poverty, religion, and suicidal thoughts among U.S. youth. The disparities regarding gender, race, and ethnicity with regard to suicidal thoughts were also assess...

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1 Citations
3,526 Views
14 Pages

30 May 2022

This paper argues for an interdisciplinary approach within the study of religion and conflict. Using a religious studies framework, it demonstrates that tools from human geography, peace studies, and the theology of religions can be used to shed ligh...

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