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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Faith Community"”.
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Betrayal and courage : faith community responses to domestic violence.
Faith communities must understand the consequences of domestic violence (DV). This includes the prevention, intervention, policy, and practices that vitally impact the safety and protection of congregants who experience abuse in their homes. With the statistics of DV in churched families being …
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Wake Forest: Voices that Tell of a Faith Community
A senior thesis project on the faith history of Wake Forest, an African American community in Montgomery County, Virginia. Includes transcribed oral histories, photos of churches and congregations, and previously collected documents about the community.
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Walk to Jerusalem: Facilitating physical activity in a faith community
… populations. There have been mixed results from faith-based physical activity studies, and few have been conducted with Caucasian populations. The present study used the Walk to Jerusalem program as a motivational tool within a Caucasian faith-based setting. The objectives were to increase …
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The Lived Experience of Faith Community Nurses Living the Call to Health Ministry
Faith community nursing is one of the newest specialized practices of professional nursing. A faith community nurse is an actively registered professional nurse, who serves as a paid or volunteer staff member in a faith community. The faith community nurse promotes health and wholism of the faith …
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A House for the Families of Abraham: A Multi-Faith Community Center for Interfaith Dialogue
… This project is designed to create a multi-faith building that crosses the religious divides in the Abrahamic faiths and encourages inter-faith dialogue by looking at commonly used ritualistic items. Three basic items - water, a meal, and the scripture – all hold reverence in all three …
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The Church and the Voice of the Other: The Growth of the Faith Community and Dialogue in the Church
Since the Second Vatican Council ended over forty years ago, the Catholic Church has been struggling to find a firm ground in a world of ever-advancing technological change and increasing globalization. Prior to the convening of the Council, the church virtually isolated itself from the rest of the …
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The Black Majority Church: exploring the impact of faith and a faith community on mental health and well-being
… and, since 2009, are more likely to be placed on community treatment orders (Mental Health Foundation 2014). A growing body of research exists on the role of BMCs in supporting individuals in distress (Bhugra 1997; Leavey 2004; Edge 2010). The qualitative study examines participants’ perspectives …
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Assessing the Perceptions of Black American Women Within Virginia's Faith Community Regarding Their Health and Nutrition Practices and Concerns
… collected from Black American women within the faith community of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Five focus group sessions were conducted with a total of 25 Black American church women. The participants answered focus group questions and engaged in visual participatory activities to rank top …
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Fewer rainy days for those who praise: a psychological examination of religion and depression
… identified dimensions: beliefs, practices, and faith community. The purpose of the current study is to explore the complex relationships between religion, stress, and depression. The hypotheses predict (1) an inverse relationship between religion and depression, (2) a direct relationship between …
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The Role of Support and Prayer in Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of Cancer Patients in Canada
… the role of family support, friends' support, community support, and prayer on the psychological well-being of cancer patients in Canada.</p> <p>Methodology</p> <p>A survey research method was used in this study. The survey was distributed through the QuestionPro audience and had 721 viewers, …
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Religion and trust in Canada
… of the social interactions of the members of a faith community. Contextual factors relating a particular tradition to the broader society have also been included in the analysis. My findings suggest that although there is scant evidence to the effect of theology on trust, a much stronger …
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From Polarisation to Pluralism: An Action Research Study at Artisan
… this study explored how members of a local faith community, Artisan Church, can engage more effectively in difficult conversations. Using engaged action research––including a World Café and interviews––the study examined current engagement approaches, challenges, and enabling factors to …
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An architecture of evangelism: Hospitality to the stranger in a Lutheran context
… to investigate the connection between the public community and the faith community, which occurs at the threshold. To investigate the threshold, the First Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Iowa is examined in terms of its membership, which can be positively shifted by the church gaining a better …
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Functional Ability and Hope: A Study of the Frail Elderly Home Health Client Post-hospitalization
… A strong descriptive level of spiritual faith, community and family support was found. Results of this study may be used to assist researchers and geriatric professionals in devising methodologies to examine outcomes of the frail elderly. Demographic information replicates prior studies …
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Multifaith Families and their Narratives within Society
… project is to nudge the conversation about interfaith families in a direction that examines the family post–interfaith dialogue. The term multifaith better represents this new aim because it encompasses all interactions and does not limit the family to the constraints of the moniker interfaith. I …
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Divine Feminine Leadership Praxis: A Qualitative Analysis of the Craft
… grounded theory. I engaged participants from my faith community and dialogued with these witches about their experiences and my own experiences of making change. The results indicate that; being a witch is equally a spiritual orientation and a political stance, gathering in sister circles …
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Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
… prompting new questions about how or why a faith community should or should not engage with diversity in the public square. This study investigates how seminaries and individual members of the clergy, as sources of religious authority, are responding to religious diversification in different …
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Improving religious organizations' effectiveness with battered women: advice from victim advocates
… more accepting, healing environment within their faith community. Next, those who are not trained to counsel individuals involved in wife battering need to learn to refer them to community agencies that are better prepared to help victims and their batterers. Finally, for battered women both …
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Home schooling in view of John Calvin : a study in education and communion of saints /
… emerged around the rise of home schooling in a faith-community strongly committed to establishing and maintaining day schools in the tradition of John Calvin. It aims to identify and understand factors that contributed to this tension and to find ways to bridge, diffuse, reduce, or eliminate it. …
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… the end of the twentieth century, the Baha'i Faith was the largest non-Christian religion in South Carolina, and it was well known for its longstanding commitment to promoting racial harmony, interfaith dialogue, and the moral education of children and youth. Its message was simple and …
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