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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Christian women"”.
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Negotiating Identities: The Case of Evangelical Christian Women in London
… These debates converge most polemically around women’s religiosity, as evidenced by proposed bans on the hijab, and the criminalisation of female circumcision. Research on religious women creates a binary juxtaposition between religion as an oppressive force, on the one hand, and religion as a …
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Examining the moderating effects of subclinical religous intrusive thoughts on religion centrality and self-compassion among Christian women
Christianity and religiosity can serve as a protective factor against mental health concerns and can lead to enhanced well-being and happiness, which is positively correlated with self- compassion. The positive link between religiosity and happiness is not consistent across the literature, however, …
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An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
Some early Christian writers around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (second- to eighth-century) depicted Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other women, both imperial and non-imperial, in both East and West, as church leaders, apostles, and priests. Over time scribes and artists transformed these …
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Clinically Healing by Faith for Black Christian Women: A Proposed Model for Collaborative Religious and Psychological Treatment for the Aftermath of Infidelity
… to infidelity compared to Whites. Black women have a higher chance of ending up in undissolved marriages than other races (Jarama et al., 2007). Previous studies have explored reasons behind the increased rates of high marital instability among Black women, including: the sex ratio …
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Strength in sisterhood : a multiple case study describing the intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences of adolescent Christian women in a holistic wellness program.
Young women are experiencing significant struggles with their total wellness of mind, body, and spirit. High school-aged young women’s mental and emotional wellness has become increasingly at risk in the past decade. More specifically, young Christian women face the same stressors and detractors to …
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How Ngaju Dayak Christian women in three rural communities in central Kalimantan pass on their skills, beliefs and values to the next generation
… and looked at the ways in which Ngaju Dayak Christian women passed on their skills, beliefs and values to their children. It was an educational, ethnographic, collective case-study which was both descriptive and interpretive. The main data collecting methods were participant observation and …
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The Role of Faith in God in Administrative Decision-Making: a Descriptive Multiple Case Study of Three African-American Christian Women Administrators of American Higher Education
… practices of three African-American Christian women administrators of higher education.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. To achieve the purpose of this study, the literature was reviewed to identify existing theories. This descriptive multiple case study approach examined the impact of …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their training and mobilizing tactics, women civil rights leaders utilized grassroots leadership to help major civil rights …
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How femininities are shaped by religion and culture: a comparative study of beliefs on 'pollution' during childbirth and menstruation in Hinduism and Christianity
… how beliefs on pollution differ in two groups of women namely Christian and Hindu women. The sample of women for this study was chosen purposefully using the snowball sampling technique. A sample of six Hindu and six Christian women who were relatively similar in terms of education and income was …
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The founding of an all Black female seminary: Spelman, 1881-1927
… B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, two white women northern missionaries. Educated in a seminary themselves Packard and Giles relied heavily on their religious education to build one of the most prestigious historically black institutions in the world. The first students of the school were …
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Mormon women and depression
… prevalence and level of depression among Mormon women compared to non-Mormon women. The hypothesis states that the incidence of depression will be higher among LDS women than non-LDS women. A significant negative relationship is predicted to exist between religious practice and depression where …
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Des Amazones parmi les pères de l'église : témoignage de la condition féminine durant la période de l'église primitive
Syncretism in the religion of Christianity has been an important, if not the most crucial aspect of its survival. This is even more true about the Early Christianity period, its first six centuries. In this study, the story of the Amazons is scrutinized in order to see what the Fathers of the …
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A socio-rhetorical exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:8-15
… I demonstrate, therefore, that the portrayal of women in the text reflects a cultural imperative, and not a theological imperative, that was co-opted from the ""secular"" Greco-Roman culture of the day and transposed, using Scriptural texts as authentication, into the Christian community at …
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An attachment theoretical approach to women’s faith development: a qualitative study
… account of the roots and characteristics of Christian women’s faith experience which will complement and, in some respects correct, existing accounts. Attachment theory is mainly employed as a conceptual framework for the research and the study pursues attachment as an important key factor …
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The big menopause: the word just seems wrong! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Christian women’s experience of the menopause
Background: As a universal experience for midlife women, menopause represents a marker of aging and fertility loss that the evidence suggests may have a profound biopsychosocial impact. However, menopause is not well explored in psychological research, particularly in terms of the existential and …
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The ordination of women to the priesthood : a critical examination of the debate within the Anglican communion, 1961-1986
… study of the debate on the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion. This required, first and foremost, an historical examination of the development of the debate. Chapters 1-3 trace the movement of thought and attitude within the churches which make up the …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
<p>I am a Midwestern, Christian, and feminist artist. I make work about the beautiful, broken, and absurd ways in which American evangelical culture influences lives, especially women’s lives. I’m dragging everything into the light by deconstructing and critiquing the world in which I live, move, …
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Evangelical women negotiating faith in contemporary Scotland
… in the spiritual life histories of twenty one Christian women associated with the evangelical Christian community in Scotland. It describes the symptoms of constriction, paralysis and impasse which some of these women report and explores the reasons for their interpretation of their symptoms as …
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Spousal rape : an integration approach to pastoral counselling
… increasing, there are limited resources to which women can turn in their time of need. This is especially true with regard to spousal rape. The lack of supportive interventions exacerbates the posttraumatic stress women experience due to rape. In order to address this concern, this research seeks …
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