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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"African American faith"”.
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Determining Health: Using Dyadic Peer Support to Promote Health in African American Faith Communities
<p>African Americans face persistent health inequities. Obesity is linked to multiple chronic disease conditions and prevalence has climbed sharply in the last decades (Budd & Peterson, 2014; Samuel-Hodge et al., 2009) – especially for African Americans. African American churches and relationships …
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Intentions to Eat a Healthy Diet: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior in an African American Faith-Based Population
… heart disease are two major health concerns for African Americans, who tend to have worse nutritional intake than Whites. Black churches, which serve primarily African Americans, are influential institutions in the African American community that can assist with promotion of healthy eating …
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The "Christian Faith Factor" and the African American Child During the Early Childhood Years
The purpose of this research was to determine if African American children progressed through developmental faith stages in the same manner as the subjects described by Fowler in his seminal work on faith development (1981). In Developmental Psychology, many theories with stages have been developed …
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The Capacity of the Black Protestant Church to Provide Social Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… of Hurricane Katrina upon the capacity of African American Protestant churches in New Orleans to provide spiritual and social ministry to the city's underprivileged. More than three years after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury upon the city, fifty per cent of the churches remain as the …
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The Healing Station: The Role of the African American Church as a Change Agent for Health
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
My dissertation, “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period …