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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Disaffiliation"”.
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Church Member Reactions to Religious Disaffiliation
<p>Religious disaffiliation is a growing trend in the United States, with estimates of between 15% through 20% of Americans identifying that they have no religion and this rate is growing by roughly 1% each year. Nearly all research concerning religious disaffiliation has focused on the individuals …
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Role of disaffiliation from fundamentalism and authoritarian religions on mental health
… to understand the relationship between religious disaffiliation, authoritarianism, and religious fundamentalism on current psychological wellbeing. Pearson correlations and a multiple linear regression failed to find a significant relationship between each of these variables. It is important to …
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Religious Disaffiliation and Family Relationships: A Grounded Theory Study of LGBTQ+ Women's Experiences
… leaving one's religion of origin (religious disaffiliation) can be a significant life event that impacts a person for years to come. Similarly, coming out and living authentically as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or another sexual or gender minority (LGBTQ+) is another event …
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A conversation analytic study of practices of affiliation and disaffiliation in Arabic in Aljazeera’s “The Opposite Direction”
This dissertation studies the discursive strategies used by the interviewer (IR) to further or block the interviewees’ (IEs’) agenda and stance in “The Opposite Direction,” a weekly news interview program that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show has been on the air since Aljazeera’s …
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Womanhood is Finally Unbound: The Impact of Disaffiliation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Identity and Womanhood
Research suggests that disaffiliation from a religious organization brings a myriad of positive and negative consequences to those who choose to disaffiliate. This is the first study to examine the specific impact of disaffiliation on how women who have disaffiliated from the Church of Jesus Christ …
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A Longitudinal Study of Seventh-day Adventist Adolescents Through Young Adulthood Concerning Retention in or Disaffiliation From the Church
<p><em>Problem.</em> Why do some Seventh-day Adventist youth leave the church in North America? The proportion of the youth who disaffiliate themselves from the church is considered to be a problem of serious concern for parents, teachers, other religious educators, and the church itself. It was …
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A study of convent life and the impact of communal living on Sisters, who disaffiliate from the convent
… none have delved into the factors triggering disaffiliation from these religious Orders. This study aims to identify the factors influencing early exits from religious Orders and provide recommendations to minimise further exits in the future. Employing Logistic Regression Analysis and a …
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Becoming liberal : a history of the National Union of South African students : 1945-1955
… Afrikaanse Studentebond (ANS) led to the disaffiliation from NUSAS of the student bodies of the Afrikaans-medium universities. Until the end of the Second World War, two groups of students jostled for control of NUSAS. The first championed the ideal of a broad white South African national …
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Religious Affiliation in Women Formed by Single-Gender Catholic Schools
… a solution to addressing the issue of religious disaffiliation in students attending a single-gender Catholic high school.
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Shepherding the Lost: How Catholic YouTube Influencers use Eudaimonic Messages to Reach Out to Catholic Young Adults
… in the faith. When asked for the reason of disaffiliation, young adults do not blame sexual abuse scandals in the Church nor do they cite specific Catholic beliefs and teachings. Instead, they say that they have begun to ask why stay Catholic and what meaning does the Catholic faith provide …
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Multilingual practices in a disavowed community: The case of new Italian migrants in London
… Participants demonstrate their membership in (or disaffiliation from) the group through the agreement (or disagreement) with the group style. This seems a challenge to the a priori labelling system based on ethnicity and migratory status, which may be seen as an analytical issue for the study of …
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Internationalism and Anglophone Literatures, 1900-1950
… with circumstances of affiliation and disaffiliation across the spatio temporal articulation of the world-system. Despite very clear political differences, I argue that the continuity of this preoccupation between all three writers evidences how social relations at non-local scales …