Il s’agit ici d’étudier la question des identités à travers l’étude de la coexistence confessionnelle des armées du roi de France entre le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècle. L'idée est de montrer que l’étude du fait religieux dans les armées royales françaises de cette période pousse à interroger l’identité complexe du soldat. En effet, le soldat n'est pas...
Izobraževanje je del življenja vsakega človeka. V evropskem prostoru je izobraževanje vsaj do določene starosti oz. stopnje obvezno. Evropske države večinoma ponujajo razvejano mrežo javnih izobraževalnih ustanov, večina učencev obiskuje javne šole. Pri ljudeh pa so že od nekdaj prisotna različna verska prepričanja. Evropa je raznolik kontinent, na...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The early Sino-Western contact was through the way in which religion and language interact to produce language contact. However, research on this contact is relatively limited to date, particularly in the realm of English language materials. In fact, there is a paucity of research on Western religions in English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks. B...
Published in Cureus
Patron saints have been adopted to protect against disease and disability in the Christian world since the Middle Ages. A patron saint most often has a morbid connection to their affiliated ailment, although patronage may stem from physical attributes or a miracle performed. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe patron saints associ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
This case report demonstrates an atypical presentation of panic disorder which masqueraded as episodes of possession trance. Patient X is a 62-year-old Chinese female who presented with recurrent episodes of uncontrollable screaming and shaking of all four limbs. During these episodes, she reported auditory hallucinations (Buddhist chanting) and vi...
Religion can have a favorable impact on individual-level health. The influence of religion on population health, however, remains less clear. This study investigated the association between religion and mortality at the population-level. Using county data, a meta-regression was performed to examine between-county mortality heterogeneity. The percen...
The political salience of religious issues and identities has been rising in Thailand, and this is increasingly reflected in electoral politics. Thai political parties seek to position themselves in relation to struggles over the location of the ideological centre of gravity, which has pitted defenders of the religio-political status quo—a ...
Does religion shape political competition in Thailand? Despite the prominence of religiously inflected rhetoric of good and evil in contemporary political contestation, existing research suggests that it does not. This article challenges this conventional wisdom. Survey data collected in connection with Thailand’s 2019 general election, which marke...
Ce texte présente une étude de cas d’une régulation de la religion, composante de certaines revendications identitaires et de la diversité culturelle. Il s’agit de la loi de la laïcité (Loi 21) que le gouvernement du Québec a adoptée le 16 juin 2019. L’analyse d’un corpus de textes publiés pendant les débats qui ont accompagné la discussion de la l...
