Religious Values Pdf

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ReligiousValues, based off of 9axes is a political quiz that attempts to assign percentages on ten different religious axes. You will be presented by a statement, and then you will answer with your opinion on the statement, from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree, with each answer slightly affecting your scores. At the end of the quiz, your answers will be compared to the maximum possible for each value, thus giving you a percentage. Answer honestly!

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Religious discrimination involves treating a person (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of his or her religious beliefs. The law protects not only people who belong to traditional, organized religions, such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, but also others who have sincerely held religious, ethical or moral beliefs.

The law forbids discrimination when it comes to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, fringe benefits, and any other term or condition of employment.

Harassment can include, for example, offensive remarks about a person's religious beliefs or practices. Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that aren't very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

Title VII also prohibits workplace or job segregation based on religion (including religious garb and grooming practices), such as assigning an employee to a non-customer contact position because of actual or feared customer preference.

Unless it would be an undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business, an employer must reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices. This applies not only to schedule changes or leave for religious observances, but also to such things as dress or grooming practices that an employee has for religious reasons. These might include, for example, wearing particular head coverings or other religious dress (such as a Jewish yarmulke or a Muslim headscarf), or wearing certain hairstyles or facial hair (such as Rastafarian dreadlocks or Sikh uncut hair and beard). It also includes an employee's observance of a religious prohibition against wearing certain garments (such as pants or miniskirts).

When an employee or applicant needs a dress or grooming accommodation for religious reasons, he should notify the employer that he needs such an accommodation for religious reasons. If the employer reasonably needs more information, the employer and the employee should engage in an interactive process to discuss the request. If it would not pose an undue hardship, the employer must grant the accommodation.

Religious values reflect the beliefs and practices which a religious adherent partakes in.[1] Most values originate from sacred texts of each respective religion.[1] They can also originate from members of the religion.[1]

Members of particular religions are considered to be a prime embodiment of the particular religion's values, such as leaders or adherents of a religion who strictly abide by its rules.[1] Each religion has similar and differing values.[1] Being religious does not indicate that certain religions are opposed to particular attitudes or encourage them.[1] These values are also evident in secular society as it shares similarities.[2]

Various aspects of the significance of religious values have been considered with respect to novels,[3] their relevance to a particular religious group (the Jains for instance or Latin Americans),[4][5] and in relation to human society.[6]

Religions influence areas of living in society such a how they treat money.[7] Money is used more ethically by religious adherents than those who are not.[7] Care of the environment is also a religious moral based on values of creation.[8] There are issues in society such as abortion which religious values impact as well.[9] An adherent's attitudes on homosexuality are also affected by religious values.[10] If divorce is taken as a path in marriage or not is affected by how religious the individuals are.[11] Even an adherents consumer behaviour can be shaped by their religion.[12]

Every individual does not consider religion to affect the actions and thoughts of a person.[15] Though in some communities secularisation is considered dominant, it does not mean that religion is insignificant in those communities.[2]

Monetary Intelligence is greater among individuals who have a lower interest in making money but are more religious, along with those who wish to make ethical decisions.[7] In a study by Thomas Tang on monetary intelligence found that making ethical decisions in the study was related to recalling the Ten Commandments, which are a Christian set of ethical teachings from which Christian values are developed.[7] These developed values are uniform across many religions, though not all of them from the Ten Commandments.[7]

A study done by Harris and Mills found that those who associate more with values of self-determination are more likely to agree to abortion than those who associate with values which reflect responsibility for others.[9] Persons who associate with values of self-determination are not as religious as those who identify with values of responsibility for others.[9]

Joseph Tamney and his colleagues conducted a study to create a model representing the reasons why or why not individuals support legalised abortion in the American population.[16] They mention that Judaism and Christianity possess values which limits an individual's freedom.[16] Christianity values the preservation of natural processes and human life.[16] This is why adherents of Christianity oppose abortion.[16]

A study investigated the role of religion in how attitudes about homosexuality is shaped in 33 countries.[10] Some countries have liberal policies while others punish homosexuality.[10] They found that nations who value self-expression are more accepting of homosexuality than nations who are focused on survival.[10] Nations which survival values are not tolerant of ideas that are not traditional.[10] Being self-expressive allow more opportunity for personal religious beliefs to be displayed.[10] Muslim nations have harsher punishments for those found guilty of homosexuality.[10] Their attitudes are no different to countries that are Buddhist, Protestant or Orthodox whose penalties are not as harsh.[10] Just living in Muslim countries encourages inhabitants, including those who do not adhere to the religion, to have these attitudes about homosexuality than living in a Catholic country.[10]

Religious values are against divorce unless during a situation of abuse or adultery.[11] Studies show that this is due to the fact that religions benefit from marriage.[11] The value of family is evident in many religions, especially Christianity.[11] Christian teachings, which mainly originate in the Bible, consider divorce to be a sin.[11] This is why marriage is considered to be sacred and in need of preservation.[11]

Religion is considered to promote sustaining marriage and traditional sexual norms.[17] Being religious indicates that marriages are more likely to be stable and be happy.[17] Religious couples are not likely to cheat on their spouses than non-religious, married individuals.[17] Married couples who are religious are less likely to separate or divorce.[17] A study held by Joshua Tuttle and Shannon Davis found that religion decreases the occurrence of infidelity in married couples.[17] They claimed that this was because religions promote traditional sexual and marital norms and discourage extramarital sexual activity.[17] They also found that being religious did not stop marital infidelity from occurring, but it also did not change the chance of divorce.[17] Marital infidelity also does not appear to have an effect of the chance of divorce in long-married couples.[17]

Religion influences consumer's purchase.[12] Some religions do not allow the consumption of certain foods such as Islam, which does not allow pork and Hinduism which does not allow beef.[12] Those who are adherents of Islam may shop without much thought and research of the product they purchase.[12] Muslims are also more likely to try new brands and new stores as their religious philosophy is that the outcome of their actions are God's will.[12] Hindus are more likely to be rational with their purchases, which follows their religious philosophy.[12] Adherents of Catholicism are more likely to purchase popular products and from well-known brands.[12] Catholics are also likely to research their products and actively search for their desired product.[12] Nittin Essoo and Sally Dibb found in their study that religious consumers were more practical in their shopping than devout shoppers, focusing more on the deals on the price and the credit which is available.[12] They also found that adherents of Catholicism had a more demanding shopping behaviour compared to the shopping behaviour of Hindus and Muslims shoppers.[12] When analysing Hindu behaviours when shopping, Essoo and Dibb described it as fatalism which sided with the religion's beliefs of self-control, calmness, detachment and compassion, which the researchers claimed explained their passive shopping behaviour.[12] The studies result suggested that Hindu consumers were less demanding, less thoughtful of their purchases, they were less traditional, less practical with their purchase and their shopping behaviour was also less innovative compared to Muslim and Catholic shoppers.[12] This meant they were less likely to put effort into purchasing and were more accepting of poor service and high prices.[12]

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