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DollarDays .com Sales Show Sharp Increase in Religious-Themed Mother's Day Gifts

Mother's Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1907 at a church
in West Virginia and quickly spread throughout the nation. "Mother's Day 2005 is all about spirituality. The company was founded in 2001 with two employees in a home
office. Today, DollarDays has 50 employees in both Scottsdale and
Boston, with plans to further grow to accommodate the increase in
DollarDays business .dollardays.dollardays.com, small storeowners can order their goods --
ranging from decorative items and clothing to personal care products and
greeting cards -- as well as employ various proprietary technologies to
instantly create seasonal departments and marketing materials. Results will
be disseminated through scholarly and lay publications, conferences, speaking
engagements and websites . Letters of intent are due no later than April
15, 2005. Full grant applications will then be invited for a total of $1. Metanexus leads and
facilitates over 300 projects in 36 countries. A membership
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DollarDays
sells its products by the case and many cases are of small quantities, which
are preferred by small retailers.
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About DollarDays International
DollarDays International is a premier online wholesaler that helps small
businesses to compete against larger enterprises by offering more than
25,000 high-quality goods at prices close to those at which large chains
purchase. A support system for entrepreneurs, DollarDays International helps
small stores to complete with big chains more closely on both selection and
price. The Spiritual Capital Research Program will fund high-
level research that could lead to new understandings of religion's role in
economic , social and political life. The aim of the Spiritual Capital Research
Program is to catalyze the development of this interdisciplinary research
field, which may become a vital new field in the social sciences. Metanexus is
a leader in a growing network of individuals and groups exploring the dynamic
interface between cosmos, nature, and culture in communities and on campuses
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Road. DollarDays International helps its
customers to select those items, both seasonal and everyday, which sell
quickly to promote both a higher inventory turn and better margins .newscom.
Kuran's project will advance ongoing research on the role of Islam, and
especially Islamic law, in the economic performance of the Middle East from
its rise in the 7th century to the present. It will also facilitate a broader
range of study by bringing together a network of scholars , to be
known as the Institute for Economic Research on Civilizations (IERC), to
promote comparative research and raise the level of discourse on the role of
various religions and forms of spiritual capital in the economic performance
of civilizations. One section will analyze the impact of 150 years of
missionary activity; a second section will analyze the economic consequences
of Pentecostal conversions in Brazil; a third section will focus on the
influence of revivalist Islam and Christianity in rural Malawi.net or 215-789-2200. Projects include the Local
Societies Initiative, the Templeton Research Lectures, and topical
interdisciplinary research projects such as the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, Spiritual Capital Research Program, Foundational
Questions in Physics and Cosmology, as well as studies of religion and health,
religion and human flourishing, and other endeavors. http://www.metanexus.

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Three Grants of $500 000 Each Awarded for Research on 'Spiritual Capital' by Metanexus Institute

While religion and spirituality
are rich with various sources of personal meaning, they also have profound
public significance.
In addition to the three funded projects that are just beginning , the
Metanexus Institute has issued a new call for proposals for $150,000 research
grants for interdisciplinary studies on the economic and social consequences
of religion and spirituality. Metanexus sponsors dialogue groups, lectures,
workshops, research, courses, grants, and publications .

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PHOENIX, Small retailers are focused on
religious-themed gifts for Mother's Day, according to DollarDays. The new, 10,000 square foot DollarDays
Central is located in Thunderbird Airpark Center at 7575 E.
This project seeks to evaluate the influence of various religions on
health , education and the economy by measuring religious distinctions and the
resulting impact on national , community and individual levels in societies
around the world.5
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Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and Law and King Faisel Professor of
Islamic Thought and Culture at the University of Southern California: The Role
of Religion in the Economic Performance of Civilizations. Only in recent years have leading scholars,
including Nobel laureate economists Gary Becker and Robert Fogel and political
scientists John DiIulio and Robert Putnam, called renewed attention to the
effects of spiritual and religious practices, beliefs and institutions on
economics, politics and societies.
For further information on the Spiritual Capital Research Program,
including submission guidelines for the new granting opportunities, or to
request a program brochure, visit http://www.

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dollardays.
"Perhaps the increased popularity of religious gifts is because of the
recent television coverage about the Pope or the general increase in religion
of our culture," Joseph said. The
grants are awarded through a program of the Metanexus Institute on Religion
and Science, supported by generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation.
Winners of the invitation-only competition for the three founding grants
in the Spiritual Capital Research Program were announced by Kimon H.net/spiritual_capital
or contact project manager Christopher Stawski at
SpiritualCapital@metanexus.

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"We have 118 different varieties of rosaries and 300 different kinds of
crosses and the retailers we supply report that they are selling out as soon
as the stock comes in," said Marc Joseph, president of DollarDays
International."
Other top-selling Mother 's Day gifts are religious-oriented cards,
religious candles and candle holders, rosary cases and inspirational plaques.
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith raised key questions for the economic
analysis of religion and looked at the effects of competition among religions
and the dangers of government of religion.net

The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to pursue new insights at
the boundary between theology and science through a rigorous, open-minded and
empirically focused methodology, drawing together talented representatives
from a wide spectrum of fields of expertise.

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com, a
premier product wholesaler to small businesses and local distributors.
According to sales records, the top-selling Mother's Day gifts on
http://www.
DollarDays International is a Web-based virtual warehouse, where small
business owners can find great deals on small business -sized orders for more
than 25,000 consumer products, from toys and household decor to apparel,
electronics and seasonal merchandise.
Recently, the company has announced several milestones:

* The company has moved into a new Scottsdale headquarters in response
to the company's growth.
"Now seems an ideal time to understand and assess the public effects of
spiritual and religious action because there seems to be a growing openness in
the social sciences towards non -material factors," says Sargeant.

Robert Woodberry, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of
Texas at Austin: Project on Religion and Economic Change.

Each project is 30 months in duration, beginning March 2005.

The Metanexus Institute advances scientific research, education and
outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion.templeton .

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* Joseph's new book, The Secrets of Retailing Or How to Beat Wal-Mart
(Silverback Books) by Marc Joseph, president and chief operating
officer of DollarDays, is now available for pre-publication orders at
http://www. PHILADELPHIA, Three distinguished scholars have
each received grants of $500,000 to lead teams of researchers in order to
create a new interdisciplinary field of "Spiritual Capital" research., Director for Research and Programs in the Human Sciences at Metanexus. "It is no
longer unusual to consider that trust, behavioral norms and religion can
profoundly shape economic, political and social developments.
This project includes the development of an international Consortium for
the Economic Study of Religion (CESR), bringing visiting scholars together at
George Mason University for interdisciplinary and collaborative workshops,
classes, research projects and conferences, instituting an economics-as-
religion concentration for doctoral students , and creating a global network of
scholars and institutes. Just 100 years ago Max Weber
published his provocative work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism. http://www.

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Due to its innovative business model,
DollarDays prices are not only often far below those which most small business
are accustomed to, but the offerings include many name-brand products as well
as rock-bottom pricing on overstocked and closeout items.

* As a support system for entrepreneurs, DollarDays recently unveiled a
new program called DollarDays Independent Distributors (DDID) that
helps people open their own product wholesaler businesses on the
Internet, for just $199 a year.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050324/PHTH031LOGO )
The term "spiritual capital" refers to the economic and social
consequences of religion and spirituality. Sargeant,
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Principal investigators heading the award-winning teams and their projects
are:

Laurence Iannaccone , Koch Professor of Economics at George Mason
University: Creating an "Ecology" for the Study of Religion , Economics, and
Spiritual Capital.
The Metanexus Institute is interested in supporting high -level, impartial
scholarship on the contribution of religion - both for good and for ill - to
economic and social developments.
Since then, social scientists have vigorously debated the concept of
social capital, but spiritual capital - a sub-set of the field - remains
relatively understudied .metanexus.