Sentences with phrase «researchers in religious studies»

Other researchers in religious studies recently have begun to take up the task as well.

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«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

«Our study suggests that the less - educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market,» said W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, who was lead researcher on the project.

«One of the most striking recent trends in the American religious landscape has been the growing share of the unaffiliated, and this study allows us to see where Latinos fit into that story,» said Cary Funk, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and one of the co-authors of the study.

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Because there have been only limited studies specifically related to the effects of religious television, in order to answer the question thoroughly the researcher in religious television is forced to extrapolate from empirical studies in related mass - communication areas.

Now, to crack the mystery of why and how people around the world came to believe in moralizing gods, researchers are using a novel tool in religious studies: the scientific method.

While some anonymized, lab - based experiments have suggested that religious behavior may increase prosocial qualities like generosity and trustworthiness, few researchers have studied this question in the context of a real community.

The endocrinologists then enlisted the help of Rush researchers who specialize in the issues of the aging brain, and the expanded team set to work with data from three long - term group studies done at Rush from 1993 to 2012 — the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP), the Religious Orders Study (ROS), and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP).

Researchers from the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and collaborators conducted a longitudinal study with a racially and ethnically diverse sample to look at the relationships between spiritual and religious coping strategies, and grief, mental health, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and personal growth for parents at one and three months following the death of their child in a NICU or PICU.

In their study, the Baylor researchers hypothesized that those who are spiritual but not religious would be less conventional than the religious group — but could be either more or less conventional than the «neither» group.

In a recent study, researchers from the University of Missouri found a neurological relationship exists between religiosity — a disposition for spiritual experience and religious activity — and epilepsy.

The researchers found that all the women who participated in the study increased their fat oxidation levels after periods of religious fasting.

Inflammation may be decreased in a fasting state, as well, as researchers found when studying a group of people observing a month long religious fast.

In two studies of women, aged 18 - 25 and 30 - 40, respectively, researchers assessed the characteristics women value when selecting males as long - term relationship partners versus selecting males as sperm donors.1 The women were randomly assigned to rate a series of characteristics desired in their «ideal man» as a sperm donor or their «ideal man» as a relationship partner, including physical traits (e.g., height, body shape, hair and skin color, overall attractiveness) and demographics (e.g., age, education, income, ethnicity, religious and political affiliationsIn two studies of women, aged 18 - 25 and 30 - 40, respectively, researchers assessed the characteristics women value when selecting males as long - term relationship partners versus selecting males as sperm donors.1 The women were randomly assigned to rate a series of characteristics desired in their «ideal man» as a sperm donor or their «ideal man» as a relationship partner, including physical traits (e.g., height, body shape, hair and skin color, overall attractiveness) and demographics (e.g., age, education, income, ethnicity, religious and political affiliationsin their «ideal man» as a sperm donor or their «ideal man» as a relationship partner, including physical traits (e.g., height, body shape, hair and skin color, overall attractiveness) and demographics (e.g., age, education, income, ethnicity, religious and political affiliations).