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PubMed1976

[Religion and size of family (author's transl)].

In the present economic society with its production patterns, religion slowly looses its influence on the size of the family. The vital statistics from 1973 to 1975 in Bavaria were reviewed regarding the birth registry in correlation to the religion of the marriage partners and to the birth rate was obvious not only in mixed marriages but also in marriages of the same religion. This development was especially apparent in marriages of less than 2 years duration. Exceptions were marriages in which one of the 2 christian religions, Roman Catholic or Protestant. In these cases, one marriage partner was usually not a German citizen. Different religions, value systems, different ethical values and ethnic considerations were of importance. In industrial societies, technology and economics are the dominant factors influencing human reproduction. This opens a large field for investigation by demographers, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians.

Family Planning Services↗
PubMed1978

Health care amid religion and revelation.

Are hospitals places primarily of medicine or of religion? Can religion be hazardous to one's health? Is Christianity a religion? Is pastoral care of the center or at the margin of Catholic health care facilities? Discussion of these paradoxical questions is meant to facilitate some new understanding of "how Christian community and faith build upon the experience of life and upon life's quest for life beyond dying".

Catholicism↗
PubMed1977

Breast cancer and religion in greater Bombay women: an epidemiological study of 2130 women over a 9-year period.

The resident female population of Greater Bombay consists of women professing different religious faiths, between which the frequency of breast cancer varies to a great extent. During the 9-year period 1964 to 1972 inclusive, a total of 2130 women with breast cancer were seen, with break-down by religion as follows: Hindus (1259), Muslims (306), Christians (264), Parsi (Zoroastrians) (226), Jains (25), Buddhists (26) and others (24). The average annual age-adjusted (world population) incidence rates, however, were found to be 48.5 and 18.2 per 100,000 in the Parsis and non-Parsis respectively, with an average of 19.9 per 100,000 for the total population. For reasons not yet clear, in every age group the incidence rate in Parsis was 2 to 3 times higher than in the non-Parsis. Time-trend analyses of our data do not reveal any statistically significant increase or decrease in the incidence of breast cancer in any particular age group. Data from death certificates for the same 9-year period show that the age-adjusted mortality rate (world population) is 9.2 per 100,000/year.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Self-destruction and religion.

In this paper a brief analysis of the development of the Western world after the second world war is attempted. It is stated that since the start of the sixties, anomie can be perceived in many of the components of its socio-cultural complex, especially in some major areas like the economy and religion, deeply influencing the others. To test the assumption that Durkheim's anomie theory is still valid and offers an adequate frame of reference for research of the underlying phenomena, the outcome of a research on 9.189 completed suicides in the Netherlands during the period 1961--1970 is presented, giving force to the validity and usefulness of this theory.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1979

The basis of medicine and religion: respect for persons.

The nature of the physician-patient relationship underlies the professional's obligation to respect each person. Religion moves those involved in caring for the sick beyond professionalism to a profound sense of common humanity under the Father, of healing as a work of God, and of love as the primary bond with patients.

Catholicism↗
PubMed1979

[Religion and marriage (author's transl)].

Marriage according to religious denomination is no longer important because of the philosophical changes in recent times. Reproductive behaviour is no longer dependant on religion for the same reasons. Faith in the naturalness and ordainment by God of the roles of the sexes is no longer prevalent. From 1960--1976 the number of marriages in the Federal Republic of Germany decreased by 30%. The number of divorces increased by 122%. Mixed interdenominational marriages remained steady at between 20--25% of all marriages. Marriages of partners of the same denomination decreased from 76.5 to 68.6%. The marriages oe changed by man and individualized this trend is positive. Intervention of the states leads to conditions which should be avoided, namely that the interhuman relationships become insecure a fact which can be easily abused by demagogues.

Divorce↗
PubMed1975

Religion and reality: the three doubts of Hillel.

The authors present an existential approach to the understanding of reality through an analysis of doubt. Doubt is understood as a healthy questioning of what others take for real, a search for that which will stand up to all criticism. Doubt begins in childhood, when one questions the authenticity of his parent's relationship to him. This doubt evokes anger, which normally leads to rebellion against or identification with the parents. Neither choice leads to personal authenticity or reality. Only the discovery of the true Self can heal this pain. There is a third choice possible, however, which takes account of another aspect of doubt, the one who doubts. When I doubt, I know that I don't know. Doubt then leads to the existential question, Who am I? This doubt is really faith, leading to Self-discovery. On the basis of this analysis, we re-open the old question of religion and reality. In predominantly religious cultures, the existential question, Who am I? has given rise to practical philosophies such as Yoga and Zen, together with their Western counterparts, the mysticisms associated with Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The same analysis of existential doubt as a path to the Self is to be found in Hillel's three questions.

Child Development↗
PubMed1979

Lung cancer in Greater Bombay: correlations with religion and smoking habits.

The resident population of Greater Bombay was analysed for the incidence of lung cancer and other variables of possible significance to lung cancer incidence. During a 10-year period from 1964-73, 2177 lung cancer cases (1861 males, 316 females) were registered, from a population pool consisting of 5.24 million persons (3.07 million males, 2.17 million females). The average annual incidence of lung cancer was 13.6 per 10(5) males but only 3.3 per 10(5) females, age-adjusted to the Standard World Population. The incidence in non-Parsi males (14.0) was almost double the figure in Parsi males (6.8). There was however no significant difference in incidence between non-Parsi (3.8) and Parsi females (3.3). Time-trend analyses did not reveal statistically significant differences in the incidence of lung cancer in any particular (male or female) age group. The data from death certificates for the same 10-year period 1964-73, showed that the age-adjusted rates (standardized to the world population) were 11.0 and 3.3 per 10(5), for males and females, in the total population. In a retrospective study, 792 males with lung cancer (42.6% of 1861 male cancer patients) for whom detailed smoking history is available, were matched for age and community with randomly selected controls, obtained from the voters list of the Greater Bombay Corporation, and significant statistical association was found between tobacco smoking and lung cancer. All smokers appear to be at high risk (16.8) compared with non-smokers. The relative risk in bidi smokers was however 19.3, even higher than in cigarette smokers (896). Hindu, Muslim and Christian smokers are apparently at identical risks. A dose-reponse relationship was found in bidi and cigarette smokers.

Adolescent↗