Religious control of cognition

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Hommel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Control

Dimensions of Cancer Locus of Control Scale as Predictors of Psychological Adjustment and Survival in Breast Cancer Patients

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Cousson-Gélie ◽  
S. Irachabal ◽  
M. Bruchon-Schweitzer ◽  
J. M. Dilhuydy ◽  
F. Lakdja
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Causal Attribution ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
French Version ◽  
Religious Control

The Cancer Locus of Control Scale, to investigate specific beliefs of control in cancer patients, was validated previously with an English-speaking population. This study tested the construct and concurrent validity of a 17-item French version of the scale and explored its relations with psychological adjustment and with adaptation assessed two years later. In a sample of 157 women diagnosed with a first breast cancer, the French version was administered along with the Body Image Questionnaire, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Social Support Questionnaire, and the Ways of Coping Checklist. A factor analysis performed on scores identified the three original factors: internal causal attribution, control over the course of the illness, and religious control. Internal causal attribution was associated with high scores for state and trait anxiety, negative body image, emotion-focused coping, and problem-focused coping. Control over the course of the cancer was positively associated with scores on both problem- and emotion-focused coping. Religious control was negatively associated with perceived stress. Emotional adjustment and quality of life were assessed in 59 of the 157 breast cancer patients two years after diagnosis and original testing. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that internal causal attribution significantly predicted 38.1% of the variance in rated state anxiety. None of the dimensions of the Cancer Locus of Control Scale predicted the duration of survival measured two years later in 75 of the 157 patients.

scholarly journals The Role of Religion in Turkish-Uzbek Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sh. Sharipov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Ruling Party

This article analyzes the role and place of religion in Uzbek-Turkish relations. In both countries, the Sunni sect of Islam is predominant. In Uzbekistan, religion is separated from the state, and religious activity is fully controlled by the state. The ruling party in Turkey makes extensive use of Islamic elements in governing. Mirziyoyev's rise to power in Uzbekistan marked the beginning of religious cooperation. In Uzbekistan, where religious control has been strong for many years, various forms of religious education, such as Islamic finance and foundation work, have been inactive. Today, after Saudi Arabia and Iran, Turkey claims to be a leader in the Islamic world. The extent to which Turkey's experience in religion and state relations is relevant to Uzbekistan is important.

scholarly journals Sacred Languages of Pop: Rooted Practices in Globalized and Digital French Popular Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Spanu
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
Local Languages ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract Nowadays, popular music artists from a wide range of cultures perform in English alongside other local languages. This phenomenon questions the coexistence of different languages within local music practices. In this article, I argue that we cannot fully understand this issue without addressing the sacred dimension of language in popular music, which entails two aspects: 1) the transitory experience of an ideal that challenges intelligibility, and 2) the entanglement with social norms and institutions. Further to which, I compare Latin hegemony during the Middle Ages and the contemporary French popular music, where English and French coexist in a context marked by globalisation and ubiquitous digital technologies. The case of the Middle Ages shows that religious control over Latin led to a massive unintelligible experience of ritual singing, which reflected a strong class divide and created a demand for music rituals in vernacular languages. In the case of contemporary French popular music, asemantical practices of language are employed by artists in order to explore alternative, sacred dimensions of language that challenge nationhood.

Bemba Chiefs and Catholic Missions, 1898–1935

1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Garvey
Keyword(s):  
Social Changes ◽  
Regular Instruction ◽  
Company Policy ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
White Fathers ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
Missionary Societies ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Woodland Communities ◽  
A Company

The attempt to introduce an element of Indirect Rule into Northern Rhodesia after 1930 highlighted the extent to which the prestige and local influence of chiefs had been reduced by the loss of political and economic power and religious control. In Bembaland the evangelical work of the White Fathers, who were established in the centre of the area from 1898, contributed to the decline of the chiefs' spiritual authority. The principal mission station of the area was separated from the local Bemba chiefdom of Ituna by a grant of concession from the British South Africa Company, and up to 1914 the religious superior was given the powers of a native chief over the inhabitants of the mission. Within the concession, the economic, political and religious association between villagers and missionaries paralleled the network of relationships which had existed in the chief's capital village. In other missions in Bembaland, chiefs were obliged to admit the establishment of mission stations as a result of a Company policy of granting zones of influence with rights of evangelization to individual missionary societies. The influence of these missions was propagated mainly through the work of itinerant catechists who entered into dialogue with village headmen and established a chain of prayer houses and regular instruction throughout the woodland communities. Attempts at resistance by both chiefs and headmen were largely ineffectual, and by 1930 the White Fathers had, with government approval, achieved considerable influence in Bembaland. During the next decade, this influence was to diminish as colonial policies brought about political and social changes in which the mission had only an ancillary part to play.

Sinful Sex: Legal Prosecution of Extramarital Sex in Preindustrial Sweden

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Sundin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Tight Control ◽  
Civil State ◽  
Spanish Inquisition ◽  
Extramarital Sex ◽  
Legal Control ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Behavior

There is no Doubt that Sweden, at least from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, belonged to the European countries where legal control of extramarital sex was most extensive. First of all, there was a difference between Protestant and Catholic countries, not in principle but in emphasis and form. The Spanish Inquisition was, for instance, mainly interested in whether people thought that a certain behavior was a sin or not. Religious confessions proved that the sinner realized that he had done something wrong, and he could therefore be treated with a certain mildness afterwards (Benassar et al. 1979; Henningsen et al. 1986). Protestantism, at least in Sweden, tended to be more interested in people's actual behavior, usually leaving the internal spiritual life of the sinner aside. This dichotomy between thought and behavior was of course not total in practice, but it tells us something important about the difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes towards religious control. Religious homogeneity also explains some of the success of Swedish orthodox Protestantism in creating a system of tight control. There was no escape for dissenters except emigration, since the creed was protected by the civil state.

Passive and Assertive Secularism: Historical Conditions, Ideological Struggles, and State Policies toward Religion

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet T. Kuru
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The U.S

Why do secular states pursue substantially different policies toward religion? The United States, France, and Turkey are secular states that lack any official religion and have legal systems free from religious control. The French and Turkish states have banned students' headscarves in public schools, whereas the U.S. has allowed students to wear religious symbols and attire. Using the method of process tracing, the author argues that state policies toward religion are the result of ideological struggles. In France and Turkey the dominant ideology is “assertive secularism,” which aims to exclude religion from the public sphere, while in the U.S., it is “passive secularism,” which tolerates public visibility of religion. Whether assertive or passive secularism became dominant in a particular case was the result of the particular historical conditions during the secular state-building period, especially the presence or absence of an ancien regime based on a marriage of monarchy and hegemonic religion.

Analyses of Archaeological Ceramics From Classic Period Teotihuacan, Mexico, A.D. 150–750

1996 ◽  
Vol 462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Kolb
Keyword(s):  
Classic Period ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Archaeological Ceramics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
Teotihuacan Mexico ◽  
Domestic Ceramic

ABSTRACTFrom ca. A.D. 150–750 Classic period civilization in Central Mexico was dominated by the city-state of Teotihuacan, a metropolis of at least 125,000 inhabitants located in a northeastern valley of the Basin of Mexico. This polity exercised economic and religious control over a wide area, regulated obsidian tool resources and production, and locally fabricated and also imported a variety of ceramic artifacts. In this report I shall summarize the status of current and ongoing investigations of Classic Teotihuacan period archaeological ceramics by surveying briefly the regional geology, reviewing previous research employing petrography and INAA, and examining the salient results of the analyses to date on two foreign and seven domestic ceramic wares. Lastly, I consider important research problems and suggest cautions for future investigations of ceramics and clay sources.

scholarly journals COVID Crisis and churches moving online – will it hasten the consumerism and commercialization of religion in Protestantism? A Sociological and Theological analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Geoffrey
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
Better Than

A consequence of Protestantism‟s aversion to monopolistic religious control is the sprouting and growth of unorganized religious establishment by enterprising individuals in Protestantism. This aversion is justified within the context of a reformed understanding of anthropology in a twofold manner. Firstly, that the corruption in human nature makes power concentrations dangerous. Secondly to prevent human beings from slacking in their duty that arise due to human weaknesses, Adam Smith‟s idea of competitive religious markets perform better than ones where there is monopolistic control. While Protestant theology insulates us from the dangers of power concentration and slothful duty that stem from weakness in human nature, it opens us out to new problems such as consumerism, commercialization and commodification of Christianity. With the dawn of the COVID crisis and most churches and ministries being forced to move online for broadcast and connectivity, the issues of commercialization and consumerism in religion will find new avenues for manifestation. The subject of this article is to extract wisdom and strategies to deal with the same from the early church which was placed in a very similar context of commercialization and commodification of religion.

scholarly journals PEMAHAMAN SISTEM PENGENDALIAN INTERN, ASIMETRI INFORMASI, KOMPENSASI DAN KENDALI RELIGIUS TERHADAP PENGUNGKAPAN FRAUD AKUNTANSI OLEH AKUNTAN PUBLIK

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Abdul Manan ◽  
Windasari Rahmawati ◽  
Nasron Alfianto
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Accounting Fraud ◽  
Public Accounting ◽  
Accounting Firm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Forensic Accounting ◽  
Internal Control System ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
British Telecom ◽  
Public Accountant

<p><em>Fraud accounting a phenomenon that has not been detected by a public accountant as a party that checks its financial statements. Latest Fraud in the field of accounting re-occur in the giant company and not tracked by an external accountant (public accountant). The beginning of the first half of 2017 has emerged the issue of accounting fraud in British Telecom. On one of its subsidiaries in Italy. The public accounting firm doing the audit work on British Telecom is not a small public accounting firm but one of the bigfour, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC). The British Telecom accounting fraud mode in Italy is actually relatively simple and much discussed in the literature of auditing lectures yet many auditors fail to detect it. To know the existence of accounting fraud the auditor seeks to understand corporate governance and knowledge of forensic accounting is adequate. In this study, forensic accounting variables, internal control system, information asymmetry, compensation and religious control as variables used to detect and understand the presence or absence of accounting fraud in the company audited by the auditor.</em></p>

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