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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Church Communities"”.
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HIV and AIDS, Disclosure, Stigma, and Social Support within Church Communities
… social support and healthy coping strategies. Churches are one place to which people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) may turn for supportive resources. Churches are located in virtually every town in the United States, with many providing resources for the marginalized within their communities; …
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Navigating Faith-Based Mental Health Support: A Study of Community Church Leaders and Volunteers in Northern Ireland using Case Study Methodology
… Kingdom, significantly impacting individuals and communities. While church doctrines and practices have historically contributed to stigma surrounding mental health, previous studies have also highlighted the potential of churches as supportive environments for individuals with mental illnesses. …
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Caring for women with eating disorders – Aspects of the church as part of the problem and part of the solution
… Kingdom, however. have explored whether and how church communities could contribute to this therapeutic process. This interdisciplinary thesis aims to provide recommendations to assist with the improvement of church-based pastoral care of women experiencing eating disorders, primarily anorexia …
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The (dis)continuity of the Johannesburg West Dutch Reformed Church: a study of the impact and significance of the conversion of a former Dutch Reformed Church into a mosque
… Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) to become the Masjid-ul-Islam is used as a vehicle for this study. The history of the Afrikaner and South African Muslim communities and their architecture is explored as well as the history of the changes to the building. The post-colonial …
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Betha Cholmáin maic Luacháin: an ecclesiastical microcosm of the twelfth-century Irish midlands
… of significant areas of interaction between the church of Lann and its ecclesiastical, social and political milieu. While social and cultural aspects of the text may constitute the focus of this study, linguistic data is also investigated, complementary to evidence regarding its social and …
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The role of a religious psychoeducational group in recovery from mental illness : an outcome evaluation.
… support group, especially one designed to run in churches, has not previously been examined. In the present study, members of existing Living Grace Groups across the U.S. and internationally were surveyed before and after the course of the groups for the purpose of describing typical members of …
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The church as a moral agent in society: a case study of residents' perspectives of the role the church has played in the Kraaifontein residential area over the last ten years: 1994-2004
… vicinity, perceive the moral role that the church has played over a period of ten years from 1994 to 2004. The clergy and pastors of two mainline churches and two evangelical churches in Kraaifontein were chosen as the participants. They were asked to put forward the names of members of …
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Changing forms of parish renewal : toward a restructuring of the parochial model, 1950-1999
… It will outline movements which formed communities and examine those which were grass roots movements and those which were organised by church authorities. It will also describe some of the forms that devotional practices took and try to analyse their persistent hold on the piety of …
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Pastoral Leadership of Seventh-day Adventist Pastors in Sub-Saharan Africa and Congregational Giving During 2020-2021: A Grounded Theory Study
… behavioral strategies or processes of local church pastors, derived from the research process, were identified as positively influencing giving during a time of disruption: (a) identifying disruptions, (b) holding convictions about congregational giving, (c) following the figures, (d) topping …
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"There can be no education without religion": Tennessee evangelicals and education, 1875--1925
… the important question of the place of parents, churches, and religious belief in New South public education. Furthermore, this investigation of religious attitudes about public schools---the laboratories in which many different forces hoped to shape the future of society---reveals a systematic …
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The Lived Experience of Chinese American Christians in Family Life
… on Religion & Public Life, 2012) and Chinese churches are the leading religious institutions among Chinese in America (Yang, 1999b). First generation Chinese American Christian parents have endured much through the immigration experience and put in their best efforts to raise their children in …
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Understanding identity and social change through narrative: withspecial reference to Roma Pentecostalism in Croatia and Serbia
… is the phenomenal rise of Pentecostalism in Roma communities beginning in both Western and Eastern Europe in the 1950s, a process which prior studies have demonstrated is linked to social change and a shift of identities. This thesis is concerned with how Roma work out their new Pentecostal …
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Contest and co-option : the struggle for schooling in the African independent churches of the Cape Colony
… establishment of schools by independent African churches reflected changes in the complex amalgam of forces that constituted the social fabric of ordinary black people in the Cape Colony between 1895 and 1920. These churches and schools were in part a creative response to discriminatory mission …