Browsing by Subject "Religion"
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Ageing outcomes in women and men in Ireland: the role of the religious social context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. CentreFor Medical Gerontology, 2020)Aim & background: The aim of this thesis is to explore how the religious social context in Ireland has helped shape the health and ageing outcomes of older women and men. Understanding the factors behind the ability to ... -
Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion
(Oxford University Press, 2022)In 1705, Mary Astell and Damaris Masham both published works advocating for women’s use of individual judgment in matters of religion. Although both philosophers advocate for women’s education and intellectual autonomy, ... -
A commentary on Michael King. The challenge of research into religion and spirituality.
(2016)King’s publication based on a key note presentation at the 2014 British Association of the Study of Spirituality (BASS) conference, a well written and thought provoking paper, leads us to consider the contribution of this ... -
Discourse and religious doctrine: Professional social work and the moral regulation of the body in Roman Catholic Ireland
(2022)The moral and practical regulation of sexuality and associated risk has been traditionally bound by Catholic religious doctrine in the Republic of Ireland. Over the last century, however, the emergence of professional ... -
Education, religion and the "first destinations" of recent school-leavers in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)Data from a cross-section survey of recent school-leavers in Northern Ireland are used to examine the relationship between family and educational background and "first destinations" approximately 6 to 9 months after leaving ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ... -
An exploration of the attitudes of primary school teachers towards the teaching of Religious Education in Catholic, primary schools in Ireland
The relationship between education and religion in Ireland is an important starting point when examining the landscape of Irish primary schools today. Over 93% of primary schools in Ireland are Catholic schools, taking ... -
An exploration of the relationship between spirituality, religion and mental health among youth who identify as LGBT+: A systematic literature review.
(2020)There is a growing interest in addressing spirituality in healthcare with evidence emerging that personal spiritual and religious practices, and support of these, can influence mental health in a positive way. However, ... -
Female labour force participation and unemployment in Northern Ireland: religion and family effects
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)Econometric models of the incidence of economic activity and employment by religion for females in Northern Ireland are presented. Particular attention is paid to family effects. Censored bivariate probit models are estimated ... -
In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2018)A major challenge for the contemporary world is how to best approach inter-religious dialogue, especially between faiths that have very different perspectives. Whilst much work has been done in the field of major world ... -
In God we trust? Organised religion and personal beliefs as resources and coping strategies, and their implications for health in parents with a child on the autistic spectrum
(1999)This paper is part of a larger study looking at the impact on 60 families of having a child with autistic spectrum disorder. Here the roles played by organised reliagion and personal belief and their relationship with ... -
John Tyndall: Peaks and troughs.
(2013-07-01)The scientist and natural philosopher John Tyndall was known to the public through his lectures and newspaper debates. But, say Miguel DeArce and Norman MacMillan, one of Tyndall?s most famous public speeches, his ... -
A microscopic look at Mary Ward: gender, science and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland
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?Museality as a Matrix of the Production, Reception, and Circulation of Knowledge Concerning Religion
(2011)Aesthetics of religion focuses on the sensual and representational aspects of religion and develops appropriate terminological tools. The idea of museality as an analytical and heuristic term for culture analysis is specified ... -
“Only your labels split me”: epistemic privilege, boundaries, and pretexts of ‘Religion’
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"Religion als fascinans? - Der Faszinationsbegriff in der Religionswissenschaft und die Interferenz von Faszinations- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte"Religion as fascinans? - The term fascination in the study of religion and interferences between Faszinationsgeschichte and the history of science
(Peter Lang, 2009)The chapter discusses the fascination as an aesthetic and intellectual strategy in religion as well as in the study of religion. -
Religion in contemporary German-language theatre and drama
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)In the apparently secular late twentieth century, questions of politics, postmodernity, gender or ethnicity seemed to dominate German theatre. But since the turn of the new millennium, observers of the German theatre scene ...