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Alanoud Alrashidi

Bio: Alanoud Alrashidi is an academic researcher from Kuwait University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive development & Religious education. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 4 citations.

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TL;DR: In many religious communities, children encounter rigorous and continuous processes of religious socialization and education that impact their cognitive development as discussed by the authors, however, little research has been conducted on cognitive development.
Abstract: In many religious communities, children encounter rigorous and continuous processes of religious socialization and education that impact their cognitive development. However, little research has be...

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TL;DR: Stark and Finke as discussed by the authors present an important treatment of the sociology of religious belief and should be considered required reading by anyone interested in the social standing and assessment of religion and stand as a model of clarity and rigor.
Abstract: Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. By Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 343 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). At a recent American Academy of Religion meeting, after a brilliant paper was presented on God and religious experience, the speaker was asked this question by an academic: "But how can you say these things in our postmodem, anti-enlightenment, pluralistic age?" Acts of Faith secures the thesis that not just talk about, but devout belief in, God is rational, widespread, and shows no sign of abating. For a vast number of well-educated, articulate human beings talk of God is not very difficult at all. Acts of Faith is an important treatment of the sociology of religious belief and should be considered required reading by anyone interested in the social standing and assessment of religion. It overturns the conventions of a great deal of earlier sociological inquiry into religion and stands as a model of clarity and rigor. Rodney Stark and Roger Finke begin by documenting the social and intellectual history of atheism, noting how history, sociology, and psychoanalysis have been employed to exhibit the irrationality of religious belief. They underscore how many of these projects have done little more than presup- pose the credulous nature of religion. There is something darkly humorous about the many techniques employed by "intellectuals" and social scientists to explain why religion persists and even grows amidst "modernity." Stark and Finke's analysis is devastating. From the outset through to the last chapter the writing is crisp and at times quite amusing. Here is a passage from the introduction, lamenting the fact that many sociologists focus their work on fringe religious groups: A coven of nine witches in Lund, Sweden, is far more apt to be the object of a case study than is, say, the Episcopal Church, with more than two million members. Some of this merely reflects that it is rather easier to get one's work published if the details are sufficiently lurid or if the group is previously undocumented. A recitation of Episcopalian theology and excerpts from the Book of Common Prayer will not arouse nearly the interest (prurient or otherwise) than can be generated by tales of blondes upon the altar and sexual contacts with animals (p. 19). Stark and Finke have written a text that abounds in technical case studies, while at the same time giving us a book that is a pleasure to read. The introduction and first three chapters alone are a tour de force. They expose the blatant inadequacy of sociological work that reads religious belief as pathology or flagrant irrationality. They challenge the thesis of impending, virtually inevitable secularization, for instance, in part by refuting the claim that in the distant past almost everyone was religious. …

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TL;DR: In this article, the spirit for life and endurance is defined as "the edge that enables some people to withstand the most traumatic events and come through them with love, with a stronger spiritual life, to be loving, to continue to fight for the good of the world and to find meaning in their existence".
Abstract: What is spiritual strength? What is the edge that enables some people to withstand the most traumatic events and come through them with love, with a stronger spiritual life, to be loving, to continue to fight for the good of the world and to find meaning in their existence? Why is it that, for others, their experiences may continue a pattern of abuse? They may continue to be re-victimised or fall into destructive patterns of coping, i.e. drugs or alcohol or at least feel that the abuse has robbed them of spirit? Is this spirit for life and endurance something we can teach children or is it something innate? Does our secular society, with its multitude of faiths, but with no common creed to gel us together discourage our spirit for life? These are some of the questions we find ourselves asking.

18 citations

29 Jun 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the use of social media by the youth and how does it affect their approach towards the Islamic ideology and Secularism and concluded that social media has a great impact on society specially in the development of secular society.
Abstract: Recent works on social media and religion have paid particular attention to the role of social media in the development of religious values, improvement of social values and gratification of faith-based content by using various methodologies. This research paper is a quantitative research, evaluating the use of social media by the youth and how does it affect their approach towards the Islamic ideology and Secularism. Social media is used extensively by a lot of people, with the majority being youth. The thought process takes a great chunk of its evolution from whatever mind accepts from the social media. Social media has a lot of unscreened information and misinformation which comes from the people of all the religious groups and backgrounds, when mixing together, they leave the young and tender minds vexed. In this article, it is asserted that social media has a great impact on society specially in the development of secular society. The article demonstrates the quantitative link between social media and religion on one hand and a link between all social media platforms and the emergence of secularism on the other.

1 citations