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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Faith communities"”.
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Enhancing environmental practices in Khoja faith communities – a collaborative inquiry
… collaborative inquiry with six Khoja Shia Muslim faith communities based in England to improve and enhance environmental practices in the faith communities. The knowledge landscape within which this project is located is a wide and complex one and brings together several different domains of …
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Determining Health: Using Dyadic Peer Support to Promote Health in African American Faith Communities
… contributor to the health of individuals and communities, particularly among African Americans and ethnic minorities. A concept analysis of religious social capital within the context of health was conducted. Rogers Evolutionary Concept Analysis method was used. The analysis identified …
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Engaging Asian faith communities and counselling psychology perspectives in the development of older adult services.
This mixed methods study investigates how counselling psychology perspectives can collaborate with the Sikh community in the development of Older Adult Psychology Services. 73 Sikh participants, aged 45-65 years contributed in English and Punjabi through interview, questionnaire or focus group at …
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Pastoral support for the flourishing of “in-between” families
… in numerous families moving out of their communities of origin for economic, political, and social reasons. A consequence of migration is the loss of support systems traditionally provided by the extended family. The study focuses on pastoral support for the flourishing of in-between …
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Perceived Levels of Empowerment in Parish Nursing
… address the needs of parishioners and faith communities. PNs work with other health care providers and organizations, as well as lay and professional church leaders to successfully develop, organize, and lead health promoting and spiritually healing activities. Empowerment of PNs is …
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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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The Movement of the Spirit: A Constructive Comparison of Divine Grace in the Theologies of Paul Tillich and John Wesley
… gleaned from this comparison inform the work of faith communities?</p> <p>In this work, I argue that the framing of the operative and co-operative work of divine grace in the theological frameworks of Wesley and Tillich resonate deeply, and that those resonances should elicit specific responses …
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Christian faith and practice amongst migrants in Athens, Greece
… qualitative ethnographic study that explores the faith, beliefs, and practices of migrants and refugees as well as the Christian organizations serving them between 2014–2018 in Athens, Greece. The study is located within the fields of diaspora missiology, ethnography, and underpinned by …
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Salience and congregational growth : revisiting the strictness thesis.
… regression to analyze data from the 2000 Faith Communities Today survey, I find that, while overall strictness continues to be positively associated with congregational growth, only prohibitions that are salient within a religious tradition have an impact on congregational growth. …
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An investigative study of the influence of religion on help seeking behaviors in the field of mental health
… Future efforts to bring the mental health and faith communities together must focus on factors of conservative faiths that may be deterring church members from seeking help for mental health issues.
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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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Seen and Heard: A Visual Testimony of Purity Culture Using Qualitative Photovoice Methodology
… and perceptions of sexuality, gender, and faith. While popular culture is talking about the effects of purity culture, scholarly literature is lacking. This study employed photovoice methodology to center the voices of those who grew up in purity culture, using photography and personal …
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The role of faith-based health providers in the South African health system: a historical case study of their Nationalisation and Privatisation
Faith-based health providers (FBHPs) have been identified as important actors and allies in health service delivery, especially in weak and fragile health systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although FBHPs are still present in a number of SSA countries in varying degrees and capacities, in South …
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Fundamental Words: The Construction of Identity in the Protestant Fundamentalist Community, 1925--1940
… of how religious identity is formed within faith communities. It argues that for fundamentalists, the identity construction and reconstruction process centered on the language shared by community members. In particular, it focus on three discursive domains: the rhetoric of child rearing, …
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Comparing the Lutheran Eucharist and the Ash'Arite Quran: Implications For Interfaith Dialogue
… this study has for Christian-Muslim interfaith dialogue. First of all the faith communities that follow the traditions established by Luther and al-Ash'ari can affirm together that God is transcendent and yet also concretely available to human beings at particular places in the created …
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Evangelical women negotiating faith in contemporary Scotland
… symptoms as signs of spiritual sickness. It uses faith development theory to explain some aspects of these symptoms in the context of healthy transitional faithing change. It suggests however that women’s reluctance to speak publicly about their experience, their habitual repression of their deep …
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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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Harmonious Living: Sustainability, Ecology, and Eco-Islam in Wales
… and their implementation within Welsh Muslim communities and Welsh society. More generally, this thesis is embedded in the academic discourse on the normative role and agency of religions in motivating their members to engage in proenvironmental behaviour. Given the urgency of the …
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