Objective to provide a thematic overview of the existing literature on existential meaning-
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Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from
dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to …

Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the
situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? The first chapter of this book …

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My first thanks go to the people in the four communities in upstate New York—Tompkins
County, Seneca County, Liverpool, and Northside—who cooperated so generously in this …

Workplace spirituality research has sidestepped religion by focusing on the function of belief
rather than its substance. Although establishing a unified foundation for research, the …

How do religious women talk about and practise citizenship? How is religion linked to
gender and nationality? What are their views on gender equality, women's movements and …

In their classic review of empirical research in the social psychology of religion, Argyle and
Beit-Hallahmi (1975) concluded that: The differences between men and women in their …

Scholars of religion have long known that women are more religious than men, but they
disagree about the reasons underlying this difference. Risk preference theory suggests that …

Despite the fact that most parents are employed, how work affects the lives and well-being of
parents and their children remains relatively unexplored. A recent study of 500 dual-career …