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  2. Religious development - Wikipedia

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    In the case where there is a negative relationship between the parents and child, the child will be more likely to disaffiliate themselves with their parents' religious ideas. Race and Gender. Research also suggests that race and gender play a major role in religious development as well. Females tend to believe there is a higher power more than ...

  3. Religion and children - Wikipedia

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    Matters relating the subject of children and religion may include rites of passage, education, and child psychology, as well as discussion of the moral issue of the religious education of children. The Children and Parents area in the Priory Church of St Mary, Totnes , Devon , UK Chairs for children in the Church of Agia Marina in Kissos ...

  4. Sociology of religion - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.This objective investigation may include the use both of quantitative methods (surveys, polls, demographic and census analysis) and of qualitative approaches (such as participant observation, interviewing, and analysis of archival ...

  5. Lived religion - Wikipedia

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    Nancy T. Ammerman is Professor Emerita of Sociology of Religion at Boston University.Her edited anthology Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives [2] was a significant advance in the study of everyday religion—the term she tends to prefer—by bringing together work by scholars such as Courtney Bender [4] and Meredith McGuire [5] who have shaped the study of living religion ...

  6. Religious studies - Wikipedia

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    Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the scientific study of religion. There is no consensus on what qualifies as religion and its definition is highly contested. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing empirical, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives

  7. Theories about religion - Wikipedia

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    The founder suffers from psychological problems, which they resolve through the founding of the religion. (The development of the religion is for them a form of self-therapy, or self-medication.) Entrepreneurial model: founders of religions act like entrepreneurs, developing new products (religions) to sell to consumers (to convert people to ...

  8. One Knock. Two Men. One Bullet. - The Huffington Post

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    A witness first saw the gun poking through a crack between the apartment door and the frame. There had been a knock and an eerie silence, then an attempt by two men to force the door open.

  9. Morality and religion - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, religious individuals were more likely than non-religious individuals to volunteer for school and youth programs (36% vs. 15%), a neighborhood or civic group (26% vs. 13%), and for health care (21% vs. 13%). [38] Other research has shown similar correlations between religiosity and giving. [40]