scholarly journals RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICE, AND ALCOHOL USE IN THAI MEN

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Assanangkornchai
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs And Practice

Religion, Parental Influence, and Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Burkett
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Adolescent Alcohol

This article reports and analyzes the results of surveys which indicate the extent to which parents' religiosity is related to the acquisition of religious and moral values by adolescents, and the extent to which parents' religious involvement is differentially related to marijuana and alcohol use by adolescents. The discussion focuses on two general propositions: First, the greater the extent of involvement in religious activities by both the child and his/her parents, the greater the likelihood that the youth will maintain religious beliefs which oppose the use of alcohol and marijuana. Second, to the extent that a child adheres to those beliefs the less likely he/she is to use these substances.

The Role of Religious Beliefs and Behaviors in Predicting Underage Alcohol Use

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily H. Brechting ◽  
Tamara L. Brown ◽  
John M. Salsman ◽  
Shannon E. Sauer ◽  
Virginia T. Holeman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
And Behaviors

Faith and Facebook in a Pluralistic Age

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 818-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. McClure
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
National Study ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Beliefs And Practice

The rapid adoption of social networking sites (SNS) has prompted educators, parents, and researchers to consider the role SNS play in social life. Few scholars, however, have examined the effects of SNS on the religious beliefs of emerging adults. Drawing from Peter Berger’s concept of “plausibility structures” and his theory of pluralism, I explore whether young adults who use SNS are more likely to condone religious pluralism and syncretism. Using panel data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I find that emerging adults who use SNS are more likely to think it is acceptable to pick and choose their religious beliefs, and practice multiple religions independent of what their religious tradition teaches, but they are not more likely to believe all religions are true. These findings suggest that exposure to broader networks through social media leads to increased acceptance of syncretistic beliefs and practices.

scholarly journals Animals, Superman, Fairy and God: Children’s Attributions of Nonhuman Agent Beliefs in Madrid and London

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 66-87
Author(s):  
Virginia L. Lam ◽  
Silvia Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
False Belief ◽  
God Concepts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Beliefs And Practice ◽  
Muslim Majority

Abstract There have been major developments in the understanding of children’s nonhuman concepts, particularly God concepts, within the past two decades, with a body of cross-cultural studies accumulating. Relatively less research has studied those of non-Christian faiths or children’s concepts of popular occult characters. This paper describes two studies, one in Spain and one in England, examining 5- to 10-year-olds’ human and nonhuman agent beliefs. Both settings were secular, but the latter comprised a Muslim majority. Children were given a false-belief (unexpected contents) task in which they were asked to infer about three humans (mother, classmate, teacher), three animals (dog, bear, bird) and three supernatural beings (Superman, fairy, God). Similar false beliefs about humans, with subtle differences in inferences about animals and supernatural beings, were found between the two locations. In London different patterns for God between participants with a family religion, in particular Muslims, and non-affiliates, were identified as well as an association between religious beliefs and practice and inferences about God. Findings are discussed in the light of theory and research on the role of sociocultural inputs in children’s theory of mind development and understanding of agency.

Agriculture

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oded Borowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Beliefs And Practice ◽  
By Products

Agriculture is the cultivation of the soil for the production of food and other useful and valuable growth from the land, including products of fields, gardens, and orchards. Its practice includes all activities, installations, and tools used by the farmer in connection with the cultivation, caring for the land, and the plants, and the production of all foodstuffs and by-products. In biblical times, agriculture was the main source of livelihood, followed by animal husbandry. Practiced by villagers and to a certain extent by city dwellers as well, the influence of agriculture on many facets of daily life was very strong. Echoes can be discerned not only in the economy but also in religious beliefs and practice, customs and law, and social behavior as well.

American Catholicism in the Mid-Eighties: Pluralism and Conflict in a Changing Church

1985 ◽  
Vol 480 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK H. McNAMARA
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
National Level ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Lay Participation ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Beliefs And Practice ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
American Economy

The decade of the 1970s saw continuing changes in American Catholicism as Catholics' religious beliefs and practices persisted in a decline that began in the mid-1960s. In the 1980s, issues of personal morality are salient among indicators of declining belief, particularly such issues as birth control, divorce with remarriage, and premarital sex. Yet there are signs of vitality in other respects: Catholic schools have grown in enrollment, charismatic and pentecostal groups have increased, and lay participation in liturgical functions is now a familiar feature of Catholic worship. The institutional church, as represented by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, has adopted a critical stance toward American nuclear war strategy and recently toward the American economy for its neglect of the poor and unemployed. These stances occasion conflict both within the church, as Catholic groups organize to oppose them, and between the church, as represented by the bishops, and policies at the national level. A pluralistic model of the church in the 1980s would predict continuing individualism in religious beliefs and practice, and conflict on the institutional level, with considerable cost to the authority of the Catholic hierarchy.

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