This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper first proposes a new definition of religion which features a novel four-layered element and which does not involve any circularity ...

Numerous studies have confirmed that intelligence is associated with a specific set of religious and political beliefs, including liberalism, anti-racism, free speech, tolerance of others and being ...

There is a feeling that religion can influence political agendas and election results. Religion contributes significantly to the formation of laws. Religion is the basic element of legal processes.

Whether a belief is “sincerely held” is generally an issue of individual credibility. While evidence proving that an employee acted inconsistently with his alleged sincerely held religious belief is ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Friday tore into a Minnesota county for trying to force an Amish community to install septic systems in their homes against their religious beliefs, citing the ...

Spiritually strengthening and intellectually enlarging experiences are two aims BYU students work towards during their ...

As more employers require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, more workers are finding religion. Or rather, “sincerely held religious beliefs” that, they say, prevent them from getting ...

In 1990, when I was 21 and living states away from my family of origin and the fundamentalist community I had left four years earlier, I was washing dishes in the sink when I noticed that the water ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A former University of Michigan Health-West (UMH-West) employee says she was fired for no reason other than her religious beliefs. Attorneys representing Valerie Kloosterman ...