Spirituality, religion, social support and health among older Australian adults

AIM: To examine the impact of perceived importance of spirituality or religion (ISR) and religious service attendance (RSA) on health and well-being in older Australians. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 752 community-dwelling men and women aged 55-85 years from the Hunter Region, New South Wales. RESULTS: Overall, 51% of participants felt spirituality or religion was important in their lives and 24% attended religious services at least 2-3 times a month. In univariate regression analyses, ISR and RSA were associated with increased levels of social support (P < 0.001). However, ISR was also associated with more comorbidities (incidence-rate ratio= 1.2, 95% confidence interval 1.08-1.33). There were no statistically significant associations between ISR or RSA and other measures such as mental and physical health. CONCLUSION: Spirituality and religious involvement have a beneficial impact on older Australians' perceptions of social support, and may enable individuals to better cope with the presence of multiple comorbidities later in life.

Do monopólio à livre concorrência: a liberdade religiosa no pensamento de Tavares Bastos (1839-1875)

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

Tempo de festas: homenagens a Santa Bárbara, N. S. da Conceição e Sant'Ana em Salvador (1860-1940)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As cortinas que cerram o Vale: religião e secularização na diocese de Limoeiro do Norte/CE (1940-1980)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Natural History on Blocks, in Bodies, and on the Hearth: Juvenile Science Literature and Games, 1850-1875.

This article examines the role of domestic spaces and images in mid-nineteenth-century science writing for children. Analyses of John Mill’s The Fossil Spirit, A.L.O.E.’s Fairy Frisket, John Cargill Brough’s The Fairy Tales of Science, Annie Carey’s “Autobiography of a Lump of Coal,” and an assortment of boxed games reveal a variety of ways in which overwhelming scientific concepts are domesticated. Moreover, juvenile science literature contributes this appeasing domestication to the broader scientific discourse, consistently framing natural history in terms of human experience.

Are Feminism and Monotheistic Religions Compatible? & Religion and Liberal Democracy: Are They Philosophically Compatible?

Are Feminism and Monotheistic Religions Compatible? Dr. Roberta K. Ray How compatible are the three major monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) with feminism and the goal of equal rights for women in Western democracies? A special focus is on how Christian religions have functioned as a barrier to equal rights for women in the United States from Colonial period through the 21st century. Religion and Liberal Democracy: Are They Philosophically Compatible? Dr. John W. Ray American government is based on liberal democratic political theory. Based on an examination of the political philosophies of Locke, Mill, Rousseau, Hegel, Emerson and Rawls, Ray concludes that adherence to a liberal democratic political ideology is fundamentally incompatible with a religious grounding of political reality.

Lehrbuch der mosaischen Religion

von Israel Singer

Hebrew Union College jubilee volume : (1875 - 1925)

board of editors: David Philipson ... [et al.]

Charles Darwin über die Religion

Was hatte Darwin zum Thema "Religion" zu sagen? Was waren seine religiösen oder auch anti-religiösen Glaubensvorstellungen? Glaubte er, dass seine Evolutionstheorie dem Glauben an einen Schöpfer widersprach? War es seine revolutionäre Wissenschaft, die ihn in einen Agnostiker verwandelt hat? Es ist wichtig, diese Fragen sorgfältig zu beantworten, denn Darwins Autorität und Beispiel werden oft herangezogen, um metaphysische oder theologische Behauptungen zu rechtfertigen, die weit über die Einzelheiten seiner evolutionären Biologie und die seiner wissenschaftlichen Nachfolger hinausgehen.