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Physician and patient interactions : the role of beliefs and values in directing clinical conversations.
(, 2014-06-11)
This dissertation examines how physicians’ beliefs and values influence the content of their conversations with patients. After an introductory chapter, chapter two primarily provides an overview of the data and the ...
Individualism and religion : the impact of the individualist cultural tradition on religious beliefs and practices.
(2011-05-12)
Individualism and its effect on American society has received a great amount of scholarly research. Researchers have established that individualism plays a large role in all areas of society. Using the dual process model ...
Internal Revenue Service and the regulation of religion.
(2011-01-05)
This study seeks to determine how the Internal Revenue Service influences religion in the United States. Using the theoretical frameworks of organizational ecology and new institutionalism this study examines the assumption ...
Social origins of scientific deviance.
(, 2012-08-08)
Scientific communities enjoy nearly unchallenged authority on matters related to the natural world; however, there are instances where significant portions of the population hold beliefs contrary to the scientific consensus. ...
"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
(, 2014-06-11)
Using three texts written by different authors, this thesis argues that sixteenth-century English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's ...
Religion, sexuality, and gender : an individual and organizational analysis.
(, 2012-08-08)
Homosexuality has been the object of much debate, research, and political struggle over the last 40 years. Since the Stonewall riots of 1969 the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement (LGBT) continues to grow ...
The influence of media use on religious individuals' attitude toward and knowledge of science.
(2011-05-12)
Research indicates that mass media depictions of morally controversial scientific applications and new technologies have increased in frequency during the past decades. Therefore, researchers have become increasingly ...
Jack Clemo's vocation to evangelical poetry and erotic marriage : an examination of his poems of personal tribute and critique.
(2011-01-05)
Jack Clemo, whose dates are 1916-1994, calls to us from the margins: a working-class voice from deep within in the china clayworks of Cornwall, having been educated outside the conventional system, contending with deafness ...
Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.
(2010-06-23)
Building on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand how religious bonding social capital in contemporary India varies along greater urbanization and whether social class ...
Belonging and participation in mixed-race congregations.
(, 2012-08-08)
There has been a recent push towards racial diversity in congregations by many religious leaders. However, racially diverse congregations, which have been a popular subject amongst researchers, are both rare and seemingly ...