Dissertations / Theses: 'Relationship between the religious and the political'

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McQuaid, Thomas. "Sacred Dictators: A Wholly Unholy Relationship between Dictatorships and Religious Leaders." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2543.

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How a single party and personal dictatorship survive has been a question of much debate among scholars. Geddes (1999, 2003) creates a model to determine which survives the longest. Within her model, she finds that a single party dictatorship – one with a party apparatus – survives longer than a personal dictatorship – one where a single person has sole policymaking ability. She argues that the fundamental difference between the two is how each treats the opposition. The party apparatus allows a single party dictatorship the means to silence the opposition by coopting it into the party structure whereas a personal dictatorship must rely on the wealthy and military to keep any opposition at bay. With a single party dictatorship being able to coalesce the opposition, this dictatorship is more stable and survives longer. I agree with Geddes’ reasoning and seek to clarify how this situation works in Sub-Saharan Africa. I argue that a single party dictatorship can silence and use religious leaders in the opposition to gain support from the religious leaders’ followers. This additional support from the religious leaders and the followers makes single party dictatorships survive longer than personal dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this research, I explain the importance of religion as a variable for dictatorship survival research in Sub-Saharan Africa. I show that religious leaders have a certain level of control over followers and if coopted by a dictatorship, religious leaders’ control garners support among followers. I further explain how religious leaders are in the opposition and therefore can only be coopted by a single party dictatorship. I conclude by showing that religious leaders increase a single party dictatorship’s survival likelihood.

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Jakob, Jennifer. "Facing Religious Diversity and Secularisation - About the Future of Denominational Religious Education in Compulsory School in Austria." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-351860.

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This thesis deals with the current situation of denominational religious education in Austria and the question of its future. The situation will be described including the historical development of the relationship between religion and politics and the legal framework of religious education in Austria. Afterwards models and systems of religious education in other European countries will be discussed. A major part of the thesis deals with challenges and recent developments of denominational religious education in Austria. This current situation will be discussed then against the historical background of the relationship between politics and religion in Austria. Afterwards the Austrian situation will be compared to other models in Europe to find out about similarities and differences. The final conclusion outlines what denominational religious education in Austria can learn from other systems in Europe and what are some ways it can be adapted to a more religiously diverse and secular Austria in the future.

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Springer, Noah Jerome. "Serious Play: Evaluating the Comedic, Political and Religious Relationships Between The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/706.

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The goal of this paper is to create a framework through which the television programs The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park can be evaluated collectively. The framework of "serious play" permits the analysis of the relationship between the three programs, specifically regarding their comedic, political and religious functions. This textual analysis proposes that when examined together through serious play, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park are best visualized through a legal analogy which is supported by serious play.

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Russell, Jeremiah H. Hankins Barry. "Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4852.

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Wedge, Lucius G. "Andrew Johnson and the Ministers of Nashville: A Study in the Relationship Between War, Politics, and Morality." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1374506911.

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Booyse, Adonis Carolus. "The relationship between the congregations of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Piketberg, 1903-1972." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This thesis investigated the factors contributing to the tense relationship between the congregations of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Piketberg during 1903-1972. It investigated the reasons why two congregations of colour in a small town as Piketberg were established. The problem that was investigated was a social, historical and religious one of determining which factors contributed to such tension.

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Watkyns, Brian Richard William. "The relationship between religion and rights in the writings of John Locke." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15829.

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Bibliography: pages 168-181.
Since 1945 the emphasis on rights has been an ever-increasing phenomenon while the influence of the church plays an ever-diminishing role in today's society. The irony of the situation is that rights have their source in religion. It is Locke who is credited with having put the question of rights into the mainstream of political thinking and it was Locke's faith in God that enabled him to put forward the political doctrine that will be considered in this thesis. The theme of this study is the reconciliation of traditional Christianity with humanist political theory's emphasis on rights in Locke's Political Philosophy which I have termed Theopolity. It traces Locke's thoughts, starting with his view on the creation of man which ultimately gives rise to natural and human rights. These rights, when violated by Government, legitimately result in revolution. Locke has three areas of thought, which when combined, give rise to his political doctrine. These areas are Epistemology, Theology, and Politics. He believed that after creation man was in the State of Nature. This state of Nature was controlled by the law of Nature which gave rise to, and preserved, Natural Rights. To ensure the protection of these Rights the individual entered into a Social Contract and so created a political society. Once society had been established, a Government was formed to ensure the protection of the individual by means of civil laws. These laws extended Natural Rights and these extended rights are known as Human Rights. This study concludes that John Locke's political thought is the most cogent political doctrine that can be adopted by rational individuals who share a strong sense of justice and morality in a Democratic Christian Society. It shows that Locke's pursuit of truth led to his basic, common-sense politics which was the embodiment of the true state of man in a society where the individual's God-given rights are respected.

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Cave, S. "A theological reflection on the relationship between faith, politics and spirituality." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682995.

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Porter, Keshia. "The Relationship Between Essentialism, Religious Beliefs, and Views of Change." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1172.

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In this study, the relationship between essentialism, religious beliefs, and views of change was investigated. Participants were given surveys containing three sets of items and a demographic questionnaire. Item sets included the Intrinsic/Extrinsic-Revised Scale of Religiosity, the Essentialist Belief Scales, and the Change Vignettes. Results indicated those with gradualist religious views were not more likely to endorse essentialist views when compared to those with conversionist views. Those who essentialized at high levels were not less likely to endorse the possibility of change in comparison to those who essentialized at lower levels. Participants with high levels of extrinsic religiosity were not more likely to demonstrate essentialist beliefs as compared to those with low levels of extrinsic religiosity. In addition, individuals did not view change as more plausible as they were determined to be more intrinsically religious. No relationship was found between religious affiliation and views of change or measures of essentialist thought. Those belonging to Fundamentalists and Liberalist denominational groups were found to be similar in regard to beliefs about change, and essentialism, as well as intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity. Those classified as Others were significantly different from Fundamentalist and Liberalists, excluding ratings of the importance of good deeds.

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Susov, Sara L. "The Relationship Between Religious Orientation, Age, and Eating Disorder Symptoms." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3157.

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Eating disorders are public health problems that are becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States. Research has shown that the etiology of eating disorders is multifaceted, and includes physical, socioemotional, and generic risk factors. One area that predicts eating disorder behaviors is religious orientation; however, the literature on the relationship between eating disorder symptomology and religious orientation has been mixed. Religious orientation is defined as reason for engaging in religious practice. People who have an intrinsic religious orientation live their religion instead of using their religion, and people with an extrinsic religious orientation use their religion to help them achieve their goals instead of living their religion. To help fill this deficit, this study looked at the relationship between religious orientation (extrinsic vs. intrinsic), age, and eating disorder symptomology. Participants for this study included 213 adult women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attending a large western university. This study found a positive correlation between bulimic symptomology and an extrinsic religious orientation. No correlation was shown for age or intrinsic religious orientation, and age did not mediate eating disorder symptomology. No correlation was shown for oral control or dieting among participants. These findings can be used to inform therapists of the relationship between bulimic symptomology and an extrinsic religious orientation, and may inform interventions chosen in treatment for individuals with bulimia nervosa, particularly among Latter-day Saint women.

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Messay, Berhane. "The Relationship between Quest Religious Orientation, Forgiveness, and Mental Health." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1279909464.

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Daniels, Smith Anisi. "A Study of the Relationship Between Racial and Religious Identities." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524615640339724.

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Lester, Amanda Lea. "Tazewell County's Mining Industry and its relationship to the Religious, Educational and Political Culture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32010.

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There is significant historical research on coal, education, religion, churches, and cultural values of the Tazewell County. However, there is no research weaving all of these elements together to tell a story of the county and its political development. This research project is a qualitative study in which I wish to reveal the story of the culture, specifically the political culture, of Tazewell County. I would like to examine objectively whether or not the mining industry has had an effect on the cultural aspects of the county. I want to ask: Is there evidence that the coal industry has shaped the political culture of Tazewell County and, if so, through what mechanisms did it exert this influence? Research will include the examination of mechanisms by which a political culture is created in single-dominant industry communities, such as Tazewell County Virginia. Research will include elements of political socialization such as peer groups, coal camps, church groups, family and community. The research will specifically focus on religion and education and how they have or have not defined the political culture of the area.
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Wax, Kevin Patrick. "The intricate relationship between politics and religion in the Hebrew bible : the prophet Amos as a case study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85694.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Politics, in modern society, has become intimately associated with poor governance, fraud and corruption, social decay, abuse of power, indifference to the plight of the poor, squandering of critical resources and self-enrichment. This situation has been further aggravated by the debate that religion and politics should be kept separate at all costs. The demand for social justice in marginalised communities has increased dramatically over the last few decades. The escalation of human conflict, poverty, social inequality and corrupt practices across the globe over recent years, demands a radical reassessment of how the human race engages politically, socially and economically with each other. Hebrew classical prophets such as Hosea, Amos, Isaiah and Micah have through their messages of condemnation, indictment, punishment and hope confronted the serious political and social challenges that prevailed during and subsequent to their time. They demonstrated immense bravery against the established order of the day as they proclaimed Yahweh’s gross displeasure and divine judgement for the manner in which those in power had treated the poor. Amos, in particular, has captivated scholars over many decades as they dissected every emotion, historical context, social structure, biblical tradition and literary convention in order to understand his message. This study is an attempt to re-evaluate the critical balance between politics and religion as demonstrated in the divine mandate provided to kings, centuries ago in the ancient Near East, to rule in a just and righteous manner. An examination of the role and function of the prophets, their relationship with the political and religious structures of the day as well as an exegetical study of selected Amos texts has been undertaken to determine how this social imbalance was addressed by the prophets. A general hypothesis is advanced to restore this intricate balance between modern politics and religion. The study further enables a theological re-evaluation of how this balance could possibly be pursued as a potential catalyst for its overall social restoration.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die politiek, in die hedendaagse samelewing, word nou geassosieer met swak regering, bedrog en korrupsie, sosiale verrotting, misbruik van mag, onverskilligheid teenoor die ellende van die armes, verkwisting van kritiese hulpbronne en selfverryking. Hierdie situasie word verder vererger as gevolg van ‘n debat wat daarop aandring dat die politiek en die godsdiens ten alle koste apart gehou moet word. Die aandrang vir sosiale geregtigheid in verarmde gemeenskappe het dramaties toegeneem oor die laaste dekades. Die progressiewe toename in menslike konflik, armoede, sosiale ongelykheid en omkopery wêreldwyd, die onlangse jare, vereis ‘n radikale herevaluering oor hoe die mensdom met mekaar oor die weg kom polities, sosiaal en ekonomies. Die Bybels-Hebreeuse profete soos Hosea, Amos, Jesaja en Miga het met hulle boodskappe van aanklag, straf en hoop die ernstige politieke en sosiale uitdagings wat gedurende hulle tyd geheers het gekonfronteer. Hulle het ongekende dapperheid gedemonstreer teen die destydse owerhede en so Jahwe se intense ontevredenheid en goddelike oordeel verwoord teenoor die swak behandeling van die armes. Amos, in die besonder, het geleerdes oor die dekades bekoor en elke emosie, historiese agtergrond, sosiale struktuur, tradisie en literêre konvensie is benut in ‘n poging om sy boodskap te verstaan. Hierdie studie is ‘n poging om die sensitiewe balans tussen die politiek en die godsdiens te her-evalueer in die lig van die beginsel van regverdige regering as goddelike mandaat wat reeds eeue gelede aan konings van die ou Nabye Ooste opgedra is. ‘n Ondersoek na die rol en funksie van die profete, hul verhouding met die politieke en godsdienstige strukture van hulle tyd, sowel as ‘n eksegetiese studie van geselekteerde Amos tekste word onderneem om te bepaal hoe hierdie sosiale onewewigtigheid hanteer is. ‘n Algemene hipotese word aan die hand gedoen om die ingewikkelde balans tussen die moderne politiek en godsdiens te herstel. Die studie kan verder van waarde wees deurdat dit ‘n teologiese herbesinning bied wat kan dien as ‘n moontlike katalisator vir algehele sosiale restorasie.

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Morrison, Lisa Marie. "The relationship between ethnic rebellion and democratization." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5num=osu1063748963.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 160 p. : ill. Advisor: Edward Crenshaw, Department of Sociology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-160).

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Barcus, Sonja M. "The relationship between religious commitment, spiritual well-being, and psychological well-being." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1116296.

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The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between religious commitment, spiritual well-being and psychological well-being in college students. The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) and Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) were administered. Also frequency of church attendance was assessed. Canonical Analysis was used to investigate the data from 425 participants to determine if there is relationship between religious/spiritual well-being and psychological well-being. A statistically significant relationship was found between religious/spiritual well-being and psychological well-being. The following describes the nature of the relationship. First, participants who experience existential well-being tend to be self-accepting and to a lesser extent have mastery of their environment and a purpose in life. Second, participants who experience existential well-being and to a lesser degree, religious well-being tend to accept themselves, have a purpose in life, possess mastery of their environment, positively relate to others, feel they are growing personally, and are autonomous. This study provided evidence of a relationship between religious/spiritual well-being and psychological well-being. Implications and limitations of the study, as well as recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Gilbey, Wayne. "Effects of Religious Motivation on the Relationship between Religion and Well-Being." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3623162.

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The purpose of this study was to examine whether intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religious motivations mediate the relationship between the religious philosophy and perceived well-being of believers. The intrinsic-extrinsic-quest paradigm has been the dominant measure of religious motivation for more than 3 decades. However, the different effects of intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest motivation on the well-being of believers has not been tested on a stratified, purposeful sample of the major world religions. A quantitative, quasi-experimental research design was used with an online, self-report questionnaire and mediation analysis to examine the effects of religious motivation on the relationship between religious philosophy and well-being. A stratified, purposeful sample of 763 members of the major world religions completed assessments of religion and well-being. Linear regressions revealed that intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religious motivations were three distinct constructs, that they do exist across the world religions, and that they mediated the relationship between different religions and well-being, depending on which predictor and outcome variables were being examined in the mediation triangle. Positive social change is possible for counselors, therapists, psychologists of religion, religious leaders, and laypersons at the individual and societal level through knowing which religious beliefs, motivations, and practices are associated with positive affect, satisfaction with life, the fulfilment of basic human needs, eudaimonic well-being, and better physical health. Individuals come to religion mainly during times of personal crises as a way of coping, expecting urgent results, and these findings illuminate the effectiveness of their chosen coping strategy.

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Pallay, Patricia J. "Religiosity and AIDS : The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Attitudes Toward AIDS." UNF Digital Commons, 1995. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/78.

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It was hypothesized that religious orientation would influence the attitudes that individuals formulated about AIDS and its victims. Specifically, intrinsically oriented subjects were predicted to have more positive attitudes toward AIDS and people with AIDS, and extrinsically oriented subjects were predicted to have more negative attitudes toward AIDS and people with AIDS. Sixty three college students enrolled in social psychology were administered Allport and Ross' Religious Orientation Scale to measure intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation. Three existing measures were used to assess attitudes toward AIDS. Additional instruments were also given to assess the subjects' knowledge about AIDS and attitudes toward homosexuality in order to eliminate the risk of confounds from these variables. Results showed no relationship between religiosity and attitudes toward AIDS, knowledge about AIDS, or attitudes toward homosexuality. Several plausible alternative explanations for the null results were considered and recommendations for future research were discussed.

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Gilbey, Wayne. "Effects of Religious Motivation on the Relationship between Religion and Well-Being." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1137.

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The purpose of this study was to examine whether intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religious motivations mediate the relationship between the religious philosophy and perceived well-being of believers. The intrinsic-extrinsic-quest paradigm has been the dominant measure of religious motivation for more than 3 decades. However, the different effects of intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest motivation on the well-being of believers has not been tested on a stratified, purposeful sample of the major world religions. A quantitative, quasi-experimental research design was used with an online, self-report questionnaire and mediation analysis to examine the effects of religious motivation on the relationship between religious philosophy and well-being. A stratified, purposeful sample of 763 members of the major world religions completed assessments of religion and well-being. Linear regressions revealed that intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religious motivations were three distinct constructs, that they do exist across the world religions, and that they mediated the relationship between different religions and well-being, depending on which predictor and outcome variables were being examined in the mediation triangle. Positive social change is possible for counselors, therapists, psychologists of religion, religious leaders, and laypersons at the individual and societal level through knowing which religious beliefs, motivations, and practices are associated with positive affect, satisfaction with life, the fulfilment of basic human needs, eudaimonic well-being, and better physical health. Individuals come to religion mainly during times of personal crises as a way of coping, expecting urgent results, and these findings illuminate the effectiveness of their chosen coping strategy.

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Williams, Latasha Michelle. "The Relationship Between Religious Practices and Delusional Content of Christians with Schizophrenia." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6147.

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Religious beliefs and practices are an important source of symptom relief for individuals with schizophrenia; however, it can also be a debilitating source of symptom exacerbation. This quantitative study examined the cognitions and religious life orientations of Christian individuals both with and without a diagnosis of schizophrenia, as measured by the Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions (RISC) and the Religious Life Inventory (RLI) to examine a baseline for healthy religious cognitions. The aberrant-salience and attribution theories were used to explore the relationship between psychotic stimuli and religious attributions. One hundred and thirty Christian individuals from an outpatient mental health facility, both with and without a diagnosis of schizophrenia completed the RISC and the RLI. A t-test showed that individuals with schizophrenia scored higher on average on the schizotypal cognitions continuum than individuals without a diagnosis. The results of an ANOVA indicated that individuals with a Quest religious life orientation rendered higher scores on the schizotypal cognitions scale. This research study showed that higher levels of schizotypal cognitions were associated with low religiosity. Overall, individuals with schizophrenia showed no difference in religiosity compared to individuals without schizophrenia. This study addressed the stigma of religious practice among individuals with schizophrenia. Results of this study have positive social implications for individuals with schizophrenia and their practitioners/clergy who incorporate religion as a coping method for symptom relief.

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Liebenberg, Andre. "The relationship between economic freedom, political freedom and economic growth." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30619.

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The research aims to investigate the relationship between economic freedom, political freedom and economic growth. The Arab Spring placed renewed interest on the topic of freedom, yet current economic conditions seemingly contradicted the established theory. The largest free economies were being outperformed by those with less political and economic freedom.Three objectives were specified to answer the research question. The first objective aimed to determine the association between economic freedom, political freedom and economic growth, for which Spearman’s correlation was used. The second objective aimed to investigate causal relationships between the variables, for which Granger’s causality was employed. The third objective aimed to examine complex relationships between the variables, for which vector autoregression was used.Economic growth was weakly correlated with the independent variables. Civil liberties, political rights and economic freedom, however, had strong correlations with each other. Economic freedom and economic growth had bi-directional Granger-causality. Political rights Granger-caused economic freedom whilst civil liberties Granger-caused political rights and economic freedom. Using vector autoregression, the model consisting of economic growth, economic freedom and civil liberties had the greatest explanatory power towards economic growth. Existing theory therefore remains valid: political freedom enhances economic freedom, which, in turn, enhances economic growth.The relationship between economic freedom, political freedom and economic growth
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
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Seo, Jeong-Min. "The religious establishment between the state and the radical Islamist movements : the case of Mubarak's Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365493.

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Bryant, Deborah C. "The relationship between religiosity and psychological well-being." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41544.

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Religion has traditionally provided the individual with a sense of meaning, belonging and comfort, and is commonly assumed to provide a basis for sound mental health and general well-being. Empirical research supporting this notion has, however, been less than convincing.

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Daw, Joan Margaret, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Relationship Between “The Religious” and “The Secular”: The case of Australian Catholics." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2008. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp228.20012010.

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This thesis seeks to examine the relationship between the religious and the secular as it pertains to Australian Catholics. The main line of enquiry takes the form of investigating the proposition that sociological approaches to religion that are based on the assumption of secular-religious dualism cannot adequately account for the way practising Australian Catholics live and hold their faith. The central theoretical concern of the thesis relates to the sociological construction of the religious and the secular as derived from a “this world-other world” dichotomy. The classical sociological argument that rationalism underpins the binary distinction between “this world” and the “other world” is challenged in terms of its applicability to Catholicism. Any assumption that a religious sensibility precludes rationality is also challenged. The thesis adopts the perspective of symbolic rationality which is regarded as inclusive of instrumental rationality. From this perspective, there is exploration of the extent to which the Catholic incarnational symbol system can accommodate both this-worldly and other-worldly tendencies. More specifically, there is examination of the proposition that a sacramental sensibility can be associated with the co-existence of apparent opposites – faith / reason, grace / nature, transcendence / immanence. The thesis propositions are tested by analysis of data from the 1996 Catholic Church Life Survey and the 2001 National Church Life Survey. The findings indicate that, for Australian Catholics, orthodoxy of belief is compatible with a sense of paradox and contextuality. Australian Catholics are found to have a tendency to engage humanity in both its “grace” and its “sin”. There is no evidence to support any hypothesis of mutual exclusiveness between Catholic religious commitment and openness to the wider “secular” society. Indeed, it is found that Catholic openness to the “secular” appears to be associated with openness to the “Other” – a central element of the “Catholic ethic”. Catholicism is presented as an organic religion that has the capacity to engage the multiplicities of the socio-cultural environment. Moreover, it is argued that the organic nature of Catholic engagement in secular society can be inclusive of engagement at the structural level of society. Overall, it is argued that many practising Australian Catholics have the ability to hold apparent opposites together and that the classical sociological construction of the religious and the secular in terms of dichotomy does not fit the reality of their lived faith. The thesis concludes that, in the case of Australian Catholics, there is an overarching organic relationship between the religious and the secular that can be inclusive of instrumental relationships on the institutional level.

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Mueller, Eric E. "The relationship between religious beliefs/attitudes and psychopathology in an evangelical seminary sample." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Chogle, Shafeea. "The sacred and the everyday: exploring the relationship between religious space and public." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28077.

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This dissertation began with an interest in the relationship between religious space and the public realm, and a curiosity into the capacity of religious spaces to participate in and construct public. This interest, while conscious of global ideas surrounding the role of religion in the global south, is strongly rooted in the emerging urban conditions of the Delft settlement in Cape Town. Where historically the secular and the sacred have been separated along the same lines as the physical and spiritual, rational and irrational, modern and traditional, public and private (Gravelling, 2010: 198); this dissertation maintains to move beyond these separations and instead explore the overlaps, connections, and mediations, in a context where religious entities are actively taking hold of the spaces the secular has failed to fill. In this context, characterised by poor quality environments, high densities, and weak institutional presence, religious space has emerged into the public realm, thus becoming the intersection of public and private, of visible and invisible worlds. The project therefore departs from the position that religious space is a material asset capable of advancing social capital, facilitating networks, offering refuge, and providing a platform for the social and public life of a community.

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Yunos, Nasruddin. "The relationship between religious orientation, ethnic identity and tolerance among adolescents in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683066.

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Leipold, Bruno. "Citizen Marx : the relationship between Karl Marx and republicanism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fa034057-08fe-484b-a9aa-20c998b26569.

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Karl Marx's relationship to republicanism proceeds in three stages: he began his political career as a republican, he subsequently transitioned to communism, and then he finally reconciled his republicanism and communism. Marx's early political writings reveal his commitment to central republican ideas, including popular sovereignty, widespread political participation and universal suffrage. These commitments led him to reject absolute and constitutional monarchy. But they also led to a critique of the modern republic, which Marx argued gave insufficient space for citizens to participate publicly for the common good. He thus gives a republican critique of the republic. Marx's disillusionment with the ability of a modern republic to deliver human emancipation eventually led him to transition to communism. He now argued that the republic would be a bourgeois republic, which would subject the proletariat to the capitalist. He attacked republicans for neglecting social depredation in favour of political reform. However, his transition to communism also carried with it several republican commitments. Unlike the many apolitical versions of communism at the time, Marx insisted that the workers had to establish the republic before communism could emerge. He also extended key republican political ideas, including the objection to arbitrary power, to the social sphere. But what was absent was an account of a more participatory and accountable political alternative to the modern republic. However, the experience of ordinary workers carrying out the legislative and public administration of Paris during the Commune, led Marx to return to many of those early republican themes. He celebrated ordinary citizens' capacity for self-government and advocated popular control over the state and transforming representative democracy into popular delegacy. He came to realise that these political structures were essential to achieving the social goals of communism. He thus came to a synthesis of his early republicanism and later communism.

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Laoye, Oluwagbemiso. "The Relationship between Judicial Independence and Ethnic Conflict." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984193/.

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The relationship between judicial independence and the levels of ethnic conflicts in developing countries has remained a significant research area due to increased cases of the conflicts with lack of judicial independence in the countries. Judicial independence is seen as an essential element of democracy in that an independent judiciary can act as an arbiter between different groups and institutions. The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between judicial independence and ethnic conflicts empirically. Greater judicial independence should be associated with less ethnic conflict, because an independent court can serve as an arbiter for disputants, and thus lessen the likelihood of conflict. The study involved 128 developing countries over a 30-year period from 1981 to 2010 using secondary data sources and employing statistical methods to test the relationship between judicial independence and the levels of ethnic conflicts. Findings indicate that judicial independence has a statistically significant negative association with the levels of ethnic conflict. Therefore, this study recommends that the governments of developing countries should promote judicial independence as part of solutions for ethnic conflicts .

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Lee, Stuart Joseph Wilson. "The relationship between political violence and conventional crime in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609888.

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Gupta, Rishab. "The relationship between political risk insurance policies and international investment agreements." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:31cb5b45-bd63-45f2-a62d-2d869ab05dbf.

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This thesis analyses the relationship between political risk insurance ("PRI") policies issued by public providers such as the Overseas Private Investment Corporation ("OPIC") and international investment agreements ("IIAs"). The analysis proceeds in three parts. Part I explains the basic features of the PRI industry and compares IIAs with PRI policies. Generally speaking, IIAs provide broad protections that are available to investors for free, whereas PRI policies provide specific and narrower protections, which are more effective and easier to enforce. Ultimately, both PRI policies and IIAs are risk-mitigation tools that should be evaluated together by investors at the time of making foreign investments. Part II explores the impact of PRI policies on the development of international law. Of particular importance are subrogation provisions found in most IIAs, which allow PRI providers to 'step into the shoes' of the investors and seek recovery from the host State. PRI providers should therefore take account of rights available to them under IIAs when assessing their recovery options. Further, as public insurers are government owned agencies, their actions give rise to State practice that may be relevant for interpretation of treaties in accordance with Articles 31(3)(a) and 31(3)(b) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Finally, Part III illustrates the contribution that OPIC jurisprudence can make to international law by studying specific determinations made by OPIC. Two OPIC determinations are particularly revealing: the Mid-American Holding/Indonesia Determination and the BoA/India Determination. In both cases, OPIC applied international law to determine whether the host State's actions breached protections contained in the policies and, upon making payment to the investor, OPIC relied on international law to seek recovery fom the host States. Finallly, Part III analyses OPIC jurisprudence in the areas of attribution under international law and quantification of compensation - the analysis shows there is substantial scope for cross-fertilisation between OPIC's jurisprudence and that of investment treaty tribunals.

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Penner, Jocelyn G. "A study on the relationship between personal typology and forms of spiritual expression." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Brigham, Anne Margrethe. "Just Hungry? Analyzing the Relationship between Land Concentration and Food Insecurity." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of sociology and political science, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-179.

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Chronic hunger is among the most serious problems in the developing world today. When we consider hunger’s devastating effect on the health, welfare, and future prospects of the nearly 200 million children (or approximately 800 million people) that are chronically hungry, we realize that something has to be done.

Another serious problem concerns vast inequalities in access to agricultural land—a very important source of income and wealth in the developing world. Thus, after more than a decade in hibernation, land reform is back on the agenda in many developing countries. In the name of justice and rural poverty reduction, countries like Zimbabwe, Brazil, and South Africa hope to give the rural poor better access to agricultural land.

This dissertation investigates the potential for land reform as a means to reduce hunger in developing countries. Towards this end, it studies the relationship between land concentration and chronic hunger in the total population of 41 countries across the developing world. The study aims to establish whether countries with a more egalitarian distribution of land enjoy less hunger than countries where land is concentrated in the hands of the few. If this is the case, land reform could act as a means for reducing hunger.

I rely on an entitlement approach to the study of food insecurity, but see food availability as an integrated part of entitlement relations, mainly because of its effect on food prices. In particular, I devise a conceptual scheme over the complex relationship between land concentration and food insecurity among peasants, landless agricultural workers and industrial workers. This conceptual scheme builds on a dual economy perspective, and looks at the divergent effects of land concentration on the agricultural and the industrial sectors of the economy. A simplified model of this conceptual scheme is tested on the sample by way of multivariate regression analyses.

The most important finding of the study is that the effect of land concentration on food insecurity depends on the share of the population that relies on agriculture for a living, as well as the level of food availability in the country. These variables interact to produce very high levels of food insecurity in countries where there is a high level of land concentration, where a large share of the population depends on agriculture for a living, and where there is a low level of food availability. On the other hand, I find very low levels of food insecurity in countries with a high level of land concentration, where a low share of the total population depends on agriculture for a living, and where there is a high level of food availability. For this reason, I find both the highest and the lowest levels of food insecurity where land is concentrated in the hands of the few.

Another important finding of this study is that national food availability is much more important in relation to food insecurity than is usually assumed to be the case. For this reason the issue of food availability should be integrated more closely into the entitlement approach.

The dissertation (cautiously) concludes that very few countries are able to reduce their level of chronic hunger by implementing land reform. For most countries, land reform will most likely lead to more hunger. Moreover, by implementing land reform, countries (where land reform may help reduce food insecurity) may find themselves trapped in a situation with a medium level of food insecurity, from which it will be very hard to escape. This trap is a consequence of the low levels of agricultural labor productivity (and agricultural surplus available for industrialization) associated with a low level of land concentration.

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Wang, Yuanxin. "Surveying the relationship between the media use and the political interest in China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1505.

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Mills, Dana N. "Moving beyond boundaries : an exploration into the relationship between politics and dance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9a7c8578-b13c-4036-813c-867a53dc2e77.

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This thesis looks into the relationship between dance and politics. It argues that dance is both a method of intervening in other symbolic languages and a system of inscription that is intertwined in that moment of intervention. Dance as a political language has a subversive potential; it can challenge verbal political statements. In the thesis I work with and against Jacques Rancière’s interpretation of politics as re-distribution of the sensible and with Aletta Norval’s reading of Rancière’s conception of democracy as egalitarian inscription which I expand and read as egalitarian embodied inscription. I show that Rancière’s focus on politics as rupture disables the recognition inscription as continuity. I show that dance enables a reading of politics as both rupture and continuity, an intervention that leaves traces that endure after it ends. Through a genealogy of the concept of the Dionysian I show that philosophers and dance practitioners alike have read dance as both subversive and affirmative, an intervention and a system of inscription that acts independently of spoken discourse. I show that Isadora Duncan created the first political moment in modern dance as a re-distribution of the sensible; at the same time although she created egalitarian embodied inscription she did not leave a codified system of movement, and did not contradict her politics in spoken language. I show that Martha Graham created the second moment of re-distribution of the sensible in which she created a codified movement language that subverted politics in spoken words. Finally, I revisit Rancière’s work and bind his discussion of human rights with the problematic of the tension between rupture and continuity. I re-read both these arguments with my interpretation of dance as political and argue that it yields a reading of dance as enabling the creation of human rights claims. Dance is both subversive and affirmative.

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Ward, Andrew M. "The Relationship Between Religiosity and Religious Coping to Stress Reactivity and Psychological Well-Being." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cps_diss/50.

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A significant body of research has identified the deleterious effects of stress on psychological well-being (e.g., Tataro, Luecken, & Gunn, 2004). Religiosity and religious coping have been identified as variables that may impact a person’s experience with stress (Ano & Vasconcelles, 2005). Aukst-Margetic and Margetic (2005) suggest that the connection between stress, religious variables, and well-being can be understood through the frame of psychoimmunodocrinological research, which examines the relationship between neurohormonal functioning (e.g., cortisol level) with psychological factors that may impact health. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether acute stress reactivity, as measured by changes in cortisol levels in response to a laboratory stressor, is related to religiosity, religious coping, and psychological well-being such as depression and anxiety. Another purpose of this study was to attempt to replicate and extend Tataro, Luecken, & Gunn (2005), which found evidence that higher religiosity and composite religiosity/spirituality was associated with lower cortisol level after exposure to acute stress. Results indicated that cortisol level was not significantly related to gender, self-rated religiousness, spirituality, frequency of prayer, or forgiveness. In addition, cortisol reactivity was not significantly related to measures of psychological well-being, although negative religious coping significantly predicted depression, and state and trait forms of anxiety. Limitations, practical implications, as well suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Bell, David E. "The relationship between distal religious and proximal spiritual variables and self-reported marital happiness." Tallahassee, Florida : Florida State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07152009-152002/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2009.
Advisor: Robert E. Lee, Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Dept. of Family and Child Sciences. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed on Oct. 30, 2009). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 72 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

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Makiriyado, Peter C. "Prevailing Attitudes Toward Work and The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Work Ethic Dimensions." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/655.

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The problem addressed in this study pertained to the prevailing attitudes toward work and the relationship between religious orientation and work ethic dimensions. The study probed the most frequent or very common attitudes toward work among students in the Teacher Education Program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and explored whether religion affected the work ethic characteristics. Work ethic dimensions were referred to as Self-Reliance, Morality/Ethics, Hard Work, Leisure, Centrality to Work, Wasted time and Delay of Gratification. Religiosity was presented from the point of view of its expressions relating to human society and its members' practical life including occupation, economy and work rather than the essence of the religion. Results indicated that Teacher Education Program students who participated in this study portrayed a strong work ethic in dimensions of Morality/Ethics, Hard Work, Delay of gratification, and Centrality of work. Students reflected a weaker work ethic in regards to Wasted Time, Self-Reliance and Leisure (Anti-Leisure). In regards to religious relations to work ethic dimensions, the results piloted a proposal that religious orientation had an inconsequential relationship to the work ethic dimensions measured in this study. These associations remained stronger for the religious oriented rather than the non-religious oriented. This study was extremely descriptive and exploratory. As such, the prevailing work ethic dimensions and the relationship between religiosity and work ethic dimensions were extremely tentative and applicable only to the subjects involved in this study and revealed the need for further research.

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Cusner, Adam Louis. "RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS SUPPORT, PERCEIVED BARRIERS AND WORK VOLITION AMONG THE ORTHODOX JEWISH POPULATION." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1614084421591459.

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Todhunter, Robbin G. "The relationship between religious and spiritual factors and the perpetration of intimate personal violence." ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/687.

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a multifaceted social issue that affects the Christian faith community as it does the secular community. Though the literature reflects some understanding of general correlates and possible antecedents to IPV within the Christian community, the impact of religious and spiritual factors tends to be homogenized and is often misjudged. Allport's theory of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation provided a platform for investigating Christian male-perpetrated IPV. This quantitative study utilized survey design and measured the impact of 10 select religious and spiritual factors on the probability of physical or sexual IPV perpetration. Archival data from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used and included male participants ages 18 to 26 who nominally classified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, or Christian. Data were analyzed using binary logistic regression and results indicated that IPV perpetration could not be predicted from the 10 religious or spiritual factors. Given the geographic breadth and the size of the sample utilized, not finding a predictive model suggests there may be a lack of consistency in religious and spiritual orientation in these young males and elucidated analysis problems resulting from multicollinearity and the use of ordinal data. Though a predictive model for Christian male-perpetrated IPV was not found, the results of this study can contribute to social change by challenging existing ecclesiastical paradigms regarding which religious or spiritual factors, if any, impact Christian male-perpetrated IPV and which religious and spiritual factors should be addressed in faith-based batterers' programs targeting young adult males.

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Berkouk, M'hand. "The relationship between France and the Francophone African States (FAS) in the period 1960-1980 : an analysis of the multidimensional relationship between former colonies and their former metropolis." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358762.

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Fieldstone, Shaina C. "The Relationship Between Ideology and Disgust Sensitivity." NSUWorks, 2017. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/114.

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The aim of the current paper is to examine the association between ideology and disgust sensitivity. Studying disgust offers an to assess how judgments have evolved over time due to a “gut” sense of danger. This emotion also plays a role in moral judgment: individuals label moral wrongdoings as disgusting which elicits a specific facial expression. For this reason, disgust has recently been found to be a plausible emotion involved in political decision-making. Studies indicate that liberals and conservatives rely on respective moral foundations that influence their choices. Haidt et al. (2009) argue that liberals’ views on morality are based primarily on harm/care and fairness/reciprocity, whereas conservatives’ views on morality show a more even distribution across the foundations, including those endorsed by liberals, as well as ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect and sanctity. Schnall et al. (2008) suggest a causal relationship between feelings of disgust and moral convictions. People often rely on moral reasoning when they do not have an intuitive response or when their intuition is conflicting. The current study examined this complex relationship by assessing disgust sensitivity while simultaneously manipulating emotional state through the use of emotionally disgusting and neutral pictures. Electroencephalographic (EEG) event related brain potentials (ERPs) were used as the primary index of emotional processing. The results indicated a main effect for electrode site location and for picture image, as expected. Results did not show an interaction between disgust sensitivity and ideology, or any mediating factors, suggesting that there may be no statistically significant differences in disgust sensitivity between liberals and conservatives. These results suggest that the core differences between conservatives and liberals may be exaggerated. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

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Pirralha, André. "The relationship between political participation and life satisfaction: causal and contextual analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/374237.

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Is there a relationship between political participation and individual life satisfaction? The idea that political participation makes people more satisfied with their lives has long been debated. However, the existing empirical research has not been very successful in demonstrating that such a relationship exists while some studies show that instead it is individual life satisfaction that impacts political participation. This dissertation focuses on the issue of causality between political participation and individual life satisfaction. The first three articles are dedicated to assert whether there is a causal relationship between political participation and life satisfaction. Using panel data, no evidence of such a relationship was found. Given these results, this dissertation then moves to question if the connection between political participation and life satisfaction is conditioned by the political context and type of political participation. Using cross-sectional data, it was shown that there is an effect of political participation on life satisfaction, contingent to the type of participation act and conditioned at the higher level by the openness of the political system.
¿Hay relación entre la participación política y la satisfacción individual con la vida? La idea de que la participación política hace que la gente esté más satisfecha con su vida ha sido un tema debatido durante mucho tiempo. No obstante, la investigación empírica existente no ha sido muy exitosa en demostrar que dicha relación existe, mientras que algunos estudios muestran que en su lugar es la satisfacción individual con la vida la que tiene un impacto en la participación política. Esta tesis doctoral se centra en el tema de la causalidad entre participación política y satisfacción individual con la vida. Los tres primeros artículos están dedicados a afirmar la existencia de una relación causal entre participación política y satisfacción con la vida. Utilizando datos de panel, no se ha encontrado evidencia de dicha relación. Dados estos resultados, esta tesis pasa a preguntarse si la conexión entre participación política y satisfacción con la vida está condicionada por el contexto político y el tipo de participación política. Utilizando datos transversales, se demuestra que hay un efecto de la participación política en la satisfacción con la vida, contingente con el tipo de ley de participación y condicionado en el nivel más alto por la apertura del sistema político.

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Pirani, Simon. "The changing political relationship between Moscow workers and the Bolsheviks, 1920-24." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433603.

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YEH, MEI-HUA, and 葉美華. "ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG TAIWAN LEGISLATORS." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08200539100508157887.

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The purpose of this thesis was to understand and investigate the relationship between religious and political attitudes among Taiwan legislators. Several aspects were discussed. First, the literature on the relationship between religious and political attitudes among American legislators was reviewed. Second, the religious attitude among Taiwan legislators was described. Third, the relationship between the relationship between religious and political attitudes among Taiwan legislators was analyzed. Forth, the religious and political attitudes among Taiwan legislators were compared to the attitudes among Taiwan common people. A survey research was conducted to collect the data on religious and political attitudes among Taiwan legislators. In addition, the data on religious and political attitudes among Taiwan common people were gained from Taiwan Social Change Survey conducted by Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. Generally, the results revealed that there was a significant relation between religious and political attitudes among Taiwan legislators. Moreover, the results also revealed that the intensity of religious and political attitudes among Taiwan legislators was stronger than that among Taiwan common people.

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Peek, Gina Gould. "Better citizens? the relationship between home ownership and religious and political voluntarism /." 2009. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/peek%5Fgina%5Fg%5F200912%5Fphd.

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Wang, Jun-zhung, and 王俊中. "The cooperation and Conflict in Politico-Religious Relations: Relationship changed between Tibetan, Mongolian and Manchu during dGe-lugs-pa seized their power in Tibet in Late Ming and Early Qing." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85212345848953858462.

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Jaeger, Marion Lynn. "The relationship between religious orientation and depression." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1197.

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Glassman, Janna S. "The relationship between Jewish ethnic and religious identity." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1724.

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This research was conducted to determine the extent to which Jewish adults perceive themselves ethnically and/or religiously Jewish and how a range of personal characteristics, attitudes and practices related to the importance of ethnic and religious identity. A random sample of 540 individuals was taken from the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver's mailing list comprised of Jewish individuals in the Lower Mainland that identify with the Jewish community This sample completed a survey on the importance of Jewish ethnic and religious identity. There were significantly more people who felt it was very important or somewhat important to be ethnically Jewish than felt it was very important or somewhat important to be religiously Jewish: 92.1% versus 59.8%. Three hypotheses were tested to examine the relationship between the importance of ethnic and religious identity (dependent variables) and the importance of ethnic and religious identity and certain personal characteristics, attitudes and practices. Cross-tabulations and analysis of variance were done to test these hypotheses. A fourth hypothesis was tested with logistic regression which was used to build a model to predict whether a subject would rate "ethnic" Jewishness as "very important" vs. "not very important" and "religious" Jewishness as "important" or "unimportant" based on a set of predictor variables. The findings indicate a significant relationship between the two dependent variables, very few personal characteristics were related to the dependent variables, and a significant relationship was found between all the attitudes and the majority of the practices and the two dependent variables. The most important predictor of whether a subject would rate "ethnic" Jewishness as "very important" or "not very important" was the global attitude score. The most important predictors of whether a subject would rate "religious" Jewishness as "important" or "unimportant" were global attitude and attitudes and practices reported as important because they are divinely ordained. When global attitudes were taken out of the logistic regression model due to their high degree of overlap with the global practices, the most important predictor of whether a subject would rate "ethnic" Jewishness as "very important" or "not very important" were the global practices, proportion of Jewish friends, and attitudes and practices reported as important because they provide a connection to the Jewish people. The most important predictors for whether a subject would rate" religious" Jewishness as "important" or "unimportant" were marital status, global practice, denominational affiliation and attitudes and practices reported as important because they are divinely ordained. The individual's sense of identity and the factors that contribute to that identity are important aspects in the psychological functioning of members of ethnic, racial and religious minority groups. The information gathered from this study aids those in the helping profession in understanding the important and unique role religion and ethnicity plays in individual lives as well as identifying ethnic and religious priorities for community services.

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CHOU, YI-LIN, and 周怡伶. "The Relationship Between Religious Beliefs and Leisure Activities." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67559191095570405908.

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The purpose of the research explores the relationship between religious religious beliefs and leisure activities and gives some helpful suggestion to the leisure policies, leisure industry,religious groups, and educators. 　　The research is based on the empirical research data in Taiwan Youth Project: J1W9S and J1W8S,and analyzes the statistical results with descriptive statistical method and binary logistic.In conclusion, the researcher finds: 1. There is no obvious and direct relationship between different religious beliefs and leisure activities. 2. 47.09% objects of the project have no religious beliefs. Of all the objects with religious beliefs, the highest proportion is folklore religions, and the second is Buddhism, and the third is Taoism. 3. About the participation of leisure activities, the highest one is listening to music, the second one is reading, and the third is playing sports. 4. However, most objects of the study agree with not only the importance of religious beliefs and leisure activities but also the existence of souls. 　　The researcher thinks perhaps trying to use more different religion and leisure variables and indexes can help clarify the relationship between both them. So the issue of the research is worth keeping studying.

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