Our conceptual model, grounded in the broader religion and health literature, suggests that religious involvement may be associated with healthier sleep outcomes by limiting mental, chemical, and physiological arousal associated with psychological distress, substance use, stress exposure, and allostatic load.
Mobilizing members of the Voodoo community is part of a broader Religions for Peace Haiti/ UNICEF partnership to combat cholera.
These gripping portraits are grouped in broad categories — war, religion, race —but Schama has no argument to promote, just stories to tell and a sensibility to exude.
Like much of Lee Friedlander's work, the ninety-seven photographs in his new collection, "Chain Link," explore broad themes sex, family, religion, race, nature with striking wit.
Clearly the servant here is trying to push her in the direction of repentance, in some way that does not accord with her rather broad conception of religion, and has to be called off.
"You don't obey your commander while performing a great task?" he asked, adding, "You, you conscript in the Egyptian military, you are performing a task for God Almighty!" Asked a series of questions about the speeches in an e-mail, Col. Ahmed Aly, a military spokesman, replied that the military held monthly "cultural meetings" about broad subjects, including religion.
(RNS) Jesus, Paul, food, charity, and prayer were just some of the areas examined in this year's crop of books under the broad heading of religion.
If it can frame the issue as one about affordability and availability of a popular form of health care for women, it may be successful in neutralizing the impact of Mr. Romney's broader attacks about religion.
JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews tried to block a liberal women's group from praying at the Western Wall on Friday morning, creating a tense standoff in the latest flash point of a broader battle over religion and identity that has engulfed Israel.
At present, Hindu mythology is under strain from two opposite tendencies that are not entirely unrelated to broader debates about religion and politics in India and the diaspora.
