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  2. Religion and health - Wikipedia

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    The preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted by the International Health Conference held in New York from 19 June to 22 July 1946 and signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States [61] defined health as a state of "physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or ...

  3. Religious literacy - Wikipedia

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    Religious literacy is the knowledge of, and ability to understand, religion.There has been an ongoing reflection on what counts as literacy. In particular, there is the increasing recognition that literacy is more than a cognitive skill and not only about decoding and processing information. [1]

  4. Religion and abortion - Wikipedia

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    He said, "I think abortion should be approved or disapproved according to each circumstance." [13] Inducing or otherwise causing an abortion is regarded as a serious matter in the monastic rules followed by both Theravada and Vajrayana monks; monks and nuns must be expelled for assisting a woman in procuring an abortion. [10]

  5. Catholic Church and health care - Wikipedia

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    [61] [62] Following the election of Pope Francis in 2013, UNAIDS wrote that the Church "provides support to millions of people living with HIV around the world" and that "Statistics from the Vatican in 2012 indicated that Catholic Church-related organizations provide approximately a quarter of all HIV treatment, care, and support throughout the ...

  6. Religious law - Wikipedia

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    Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions.Examples of religiously derived legal codes include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distinct from secular state law [1]), Jewish halakha, Islamic sharia, and Hindu law. [2]

  7. Religiosity and education - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between the level of religiosity and the level of education has been studied since the second half of the 20th century.. The parameters of the two components are diverse: the "level of religiosity" remains a concept which is difficult to differentiate scientifically, while the "level of education" is easier to compile, such as official data on this topic, because data on ...

  8. Ritual purification - Wikipedia

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    Within each tradition the more orthodox groups follow stricter rules, but the strictest rules are generally prescribed for Brahmins, especially those engaged in the temple worship. An important part of ritual purification in Hinduism is the bathing of the entire body, particularly in rivers considered holy such as the Ganges .

  9. Rule utilitarianism - Wikipedia

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    Rule utilitarianism is a form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness or wrongness of a particular action is a function of the correctness of the rule of which it is an instance". [1]