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Is frequent religious attendance really conducive to better health? Toward an epidemiology of religion
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It is shown that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that religious attendance is positively and significantly related to health, but the authors present a theoretical basis for expecting such associations.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1987-01-01. It has received 326 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attendance & Religiosity.read more
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Introduction to the Economics of Religion
TL;DR: This article summarized and evaluated the principal themes and empirical findings that have appeared in some 200 recent papers on the economics of religion and applied standard economic theory to the study of individual religious activity, the characteristics of religious groups, and the impact of regulation and competition on religious markets.
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Religious involvement and subjective well-being.
TL;DR: There are persistent denominational variations in life satisfaction, but not in happiness: nondenominational Protestants, liberal Protestants, and members of nontraditional groups such as Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses report greater life satisfaction than do their unaffiliated counterparts, even with the effects of other dimensions of religiosity held constant.
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The Religion-Health Connection: Evidence, Theory, and Future Directions
TL;DR: The aim of this article is to identify the most promising explanatory mechanisms for religious effects on health, giving particular attention to the relationships between religious factors and the central constructs of the life stress paradigm, which guides most current social and behavioral research on health outcomes.
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People's opium? Religion and economic attitudes
Luigi Guiso,Luigi Guiso,Paola Sapienza,Paola Sapienza,Luigi Zingales,Luigi Zingales,Luigi Zingales +6 more
TL;DR: The authors found that on average, religious beliefs are associated with "good" economic attitudes, where ''good'' is defined as conducive to higher per capita income and growth, while religious people tend to be more racist and less favorable with respect to working women.
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Religion and spirituality. Linkages to physical health.
TL;DR: It is concluded that church/service attendance protects healthy people against death and some evidence that religion or spirituality impedes recovery from acute illness is found.
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The Interpretation of Cultures
Richard Fenn,Clifford Geertz +1 more
TL;DR: The INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ Books files are available at the online library of the University of Southern California as mentioned in this paper, where they can be used to find any kind of Books for reading.
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The association of social relationships and activities with mortality: prospective evidence from the tecumseh community health study
TL;DR: Men reporting a higher levels of social relationships and activities in 1967-1969 were significantly less likely to die during the follow-up period and trends for women were similar, but generally nonsignificant once age and other risk factors were controlled.
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Measures of social psychological attitudes
John Robinson,Phillip R. Shaver +1 more
TL;DR: The self-knowledge workshop as discussed by the authors is an educational technique and a possible method f o r reducing p r e j u d i c e. Harvard U n i v e r s i t y. Unpublished study.
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The encyclopedia of philosophy
TL;DR: The encyclopedia of philosophy as mentioned in this paper, The Encyclopedias of philosophy, The encyclopedia of the philosophy of science and technology, and The Encyclopedia of philosophy of the sciences and technology.