Many religious people deny any conflict between religion and science, but nevertheless report less trust in science than non-religious people. We addr... [more]
As an indirect response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn's Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? this article aims to explicate what 'c... [more]
PURPOSE: This study provides a quantitative assessment of the impact the LDS Church's health doctrine has on deaths and years of potential life lost (YPLL) from diseases and conditions associated with cigarette smoking in Utah. METHODS: Pooled estimates
Spirits are part of everyday life in the Kingdom of Tonga. This study explores beliefs about the supernatural by analyzing discourse on spirits and death and by examining two examples of contemporary cultural practice related to spirits and death. The ant
Reports focusing on auras of ecstasy or pleasure have been limited largely to single case descriptions. We examined I I consecutive patients with such ictal symptoms. Eight had sensory hallucinations, four had erotic sensations, five described a religious
This article examines Columbia, Mar land, called The Next America by its founders in 1967. It compares the Planning goals and actual achievements over the third of a century that the city has existed. The physical plan and social plan are discussed in tur
Xenotransplantation (XTx) provides a potential solution to the shortage of human organs and tissues, and has several advantages over other possible solutions to this problem. However, a number of scientific and ethical barriers exist, and need to be addre
It is commonly assumed that Jung's view of myth, like his view of everything else, is best understood vis-a-vis Freud's. I argue that Jung in fact positions himself much more broadly, not merely against other psychologists of myth but more fundamentally
This article demonstrates the responsiveness of national and religious identifications to political change among Protestants in Northern Ireland. It begins by theorizing identification as a process of working out our ideas of self, others and place. Subse
The advertising of controversial products/services and the use of controversial images to cut through the clutter in the marketplace appears to be increasing around the world. However, apart from the general ethical issue regarding the deliberate use of c
Information processing theorists propose that traumatic events can lead to disruptions in the processing of information and to changes in beliefs. This study examined the relationships among trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and religious beli
Feminist analysis of cultural mythology surrounding organ donation offers a critical perspective on current U.S. transplant policy. My argument is three-pronged. First, I argue that organ donation is appropriately understood as a sacrifice. Structurally,
Many public health interventions attempt to promote health and well-being while simultaneously engaging with or negating pleasure-seeking activities. Yet the examination of pleasure is under-researched, especially within health and health-related areas. W
Traditional religious teachings about the nature of the person, especially body-soul dualism, influence majority views of the self. Following a historical overview, it is argued that a purely physicalist account of human nature is equally compatible with
Drawing on the work of Raimond Gaita, the paper considers the role that may be played by the lives of the saints, both in alerting us to the moral standing of other human beings, and in helping us to articulate the concept of humanity understood in a mora
This paper examines the role that religious ethics, complemented by a nationalist principle, can play in a sustained exercise of strategic leadership, hypothesizing a positive association with a societal reputation for credibility or integrity. The key to
This population-based case-control study of Blacks and Whites in North Carolina (1996-2000) examined the relation between social ties, etiology of colon cancer, and stage of disease at diagnosis. Interviews were conducted with 637 cases and 1,043 controls