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The Effect of Religion Toward Moral Values of College Students in Locos Sur, Philippines

Many wonder why self-confessed religious nations such as Christian nation, Islam nations, Hinduism nation, have not become better country in terms of morality such as corruption, killings, gambling, cheating, abortions, and many more immoralities. Those immoralities raise question in the mind of many people: does religion have no influence to the moral life of people? At the same time, some nations that claim to have no religion, they are advanced and less corrupt. Such picture deserves to be investigated.

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Dennis Bautista

This paper determined the level of religiosity and morality of the students. This utilizes descriptive survey and correlational design that use quantitative data. In this approach, the researcher primarily use post positivist claims for developing knowledge and employ survey to collect data. The survey design will yield holistic views of the respondent regarding morality and religiosity through statistical inquiry. The correlational design will measure the degree of association between two or more variables using also statistical procedure of correlational analysis. The respondents are male and female belonging to different age brackets. Most of the respondents are Roman Catholics since Catholicism is still the religion in the Philippines that has the most number of believers. The result reveals that the power of media, side by side with one’s family and environment can be influential to a person’s religiosity and morality. Despite the varying views among the respondents, it was fou...

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Lacking in much of the current research on religion and corruption is a sense that there may be alternative ways that people view corruption, which in their minds may be moral, and that if we are to truly develop an understanding of how religion influences people’s attitudes and behaviour towards corruption, we must start from a critical and interpretive perspective at the individual level of analysis.This paper argues that the methodologies used in many current studies are not adequate to study what is ultimately an individual decision, and one that is at least in part informed by a person’s own ethical and moral standpoint. As such, starting research with the mindset that particular types of activities are corrupt, and thus ‘wrong’, may prevent researchers from uncovering why people develop particular attitudes to corruption, or why they choose to behave in a way labelled by some as corrupt. If corruption research is to explore some of these issues at the individual, as well as the regional and national levels, it is important to learn from existing work that examines how attitudes are formed, both on religion and the impact that religion has on attitudes to moral issues and on moral reasoning. A number of studies, few of which deal specifically with corruption, are reviewed in order to establish useful ways forward for corruption researchers. Research on religion and attitudes towards deviant behaviour shows that individuals’ interpretation of messages on moral behaviour is significant in determining their acceptance or rejection of deviancy. However, there is little evidence to suggest that the religious reject behaviour that is ‘anti-social’ any more than the non-religious. Indeed, there is little evidence to suggest that religion, in terms of religious content, impacts upon individuals’ attitudes to public morality. Membership of a religious community that rejects behaviour seen as being ‘corrupt’ seems more likely to have an impact, but a lot depends upon whether members of the community are encouraged to use religious principles to think through moral issues, or to interpret religious teachings literally. The implications of this for research on corruption are  The messages individuals receive about behaviour that is deemed to be moral and behaviour that is seen as ‘deviant’ may be conflicting and the ways in which they interpret such messages are important, influencing their ideas about what constitutes ‘corruption’.  People are part of multiple communities – religious, family, friends, work, professional and so on – and may not separate their lives into ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, governed by public and private morality.

Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Emmanuel Iwuagwu

Morality until recently has been seen as a brainchild of religion and thus an essential part of religion from which it is inseparable. This assumption has even led some scholars to hold that there can be no morality without religion since morality is intrinsically a part of religion. It is therefore assumed that a religious person is essentially a moral person and that a moral life may not be possible without religion. If this assumption is upheld it will mean that with the multiplicity of major religious denominations the world will be a better place. Whether this is so is an issue that elicits fierce divergent views among scholars and people of various orientations. This works critically examines the relationship between religion and morality to determine whether the above claims and expectations are justified. Employing the philosophical tools of critical analysis, exposition and evaluation of facts experientially acquired as well as information from the works of researchers on the issues of religion and morality, the work examines whether there is a definitional relationship or connection between religion and morality and whether they are related through their concerns, preoccupations or constituent elements. This connection was not seen. The work further examined the opinions of scholars with regard to their relationship as well as what the consequences will be if ethics depends on religion. In trying to find out the root of the assumption the work critically examined the contentious issue of the impact of the multiplicity of religious denominations on socio-ethical behavior. In conclusion the work decried the lack of synergy between morality and religion, holding that though there may be no definitional connection between them and their concerns, preoccupations and constituent elements may differ, morality and religion are complimentary in forging a better society. If they synergize their efforts the world will be a better place.

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Dr. Leila Shadabi

Religion can influence human behavior and actions. One of the social behaviors is corruption which is important due to its effect on growth, inflation, investment and innovation and is rejected by all religions. The effect of religion on corruption has been investigated in this study. It is not the first time this issue is being investigated, but we can see certain paradoxes about it in some studies. Some of them show that religion as a cultural index has a positive effect on corruption and some others show that this effect is negative. This study uses data of 174 countries in 2010 and all of the economic and non-economic control variables were considered in its cross-sectional estimations. Although in some previous studies, religion was a factor in increasing corruption, this study shows that Islam and Christianity have no significant effect on corruption. Also, the robustness test strongly confirmed the results of the study. So, all the results showed that religion does not increa...

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Agama memang menjadi salah satu isu sensitif yang berkembang subur dalam tatanan sosial masyarakat tertentu. Peran agama di ranah sosial hingga kini masih terus diperdebatkan. Sebagian meyakini bahwa agama tidak memiliki peran signifikan dalam membangun kehidupan sosial, sementara sebagian lain percaya bahwa (nilai-nilai) agama berperan besar dalam membangun tatanan sosial ke arah yang lebih baik. Sebuah hal yang menarik jika melihat peran agama dalam ranah sosial. Sering kali perdebatan muncul oleh karena hal semacam itu. Bagi yang pertama, agama jelas identik dengan moralitas yang mana sangat jelas terlihat dari ajaran-ajaran agama itu sendiri. Bagi yang kedua, menjadi suatu pengetahuan umum bahwa agama dari segi ajarannya sangat berpengaruh besar dalam tatanan sosial dalam bermasyarakat. Oleh karena itu, perihal perspektif yang pertama (agama identik dengan moralitas), keyakinan tersebut memunculkan tesis lain yang berseberangan yaitu tidak beragama berarti tidak bermoral. Kedua ...

Journal of Public Administration and Governance

muhammad khadafi

The purpose of current study was to analyze the relationship between religion and ccorruption behavior. Corruption was a major problem that constantly being a disease to the third world country, included Indonesia. The magnitude of problems made the Government of Indonesia kept pressing the of corruption case consciously that already existed. Indonesia's corruption index in last few years continued to undergo the improvements though there have no significant changes. Through a theory stated religion could bring a positive implication for corruption behavior and also brought a negative impact on the corruption behavior of a person. The influence of personal religiosity level in the subsequent discussion was used a quantitative-explorative approach integrated with the qualitative-descriptive approach (mixed approach). The study was conducted in Bangka Belitung Islands Province aimed to find out and analyzed the issues. The results of processed data showed that people in Province o...

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