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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Religious Faith"”.
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Examining the Intersectionality of Religious Faith, Spirituality, and Healthcare Communication
… scholars that trace the relationship among religious faith, spirituality, and healthcare communication. While Parrott (2004) describes this apparent neglect as “collective amnesia,” others label it “religion blindness.” Thus, in trying to trace this relationship, this project uses Christian, …
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Believing at Work : modeling the interplay of religious faith and business
Believing at Work asks what difference religious faith makes in business. It suggests that professionals who infuse their work with transcendent, religious purposes may experience a shift in their mental models, which can become a marketplace advantage. This shift moves individuals from being …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… underwent profound re-evaluations of their faith, spurred by the combined forces of legislation that challenged the monolithic Anglican Church and the burgeoning fields of High Criticism, scientific inquiry, and technology. For some, religious introspection led to profound spirituality and a …
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND RELIGIOUS FAITH AFFILIATION TO BLACK STUDENT RETENTION AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION
… if any, between socioeconomic status (SES), religious faith affiliation, and retention of Black students in a predominantly White institution. The 2002 University New Student Census, a questionnaire given to all students during summer orientation, was used to secure a sample of Black …
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Towards a ressourcement of Dwight D. Eisenhower's belief that "our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith"
… no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith. In this context, it examines the beliefs of the Founding generation that support Eisenhower's contention. It also examines the beliefs prevailing during 1950s America that came to known as American civil religion. It then turns to a …
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Counselling Psychologists’ experience of working with religious clients, what has helped and/or hindered their work, and what might benefit it: an exploration in the context of the historical relationship between religious faith and psychotherapy
… of Counselling Psychologists when working with religious clients, in the historical context of the relationship between psychotherapy and religious faith, were explored using Narrative Inquiry as the research methodology. The participants were nine qualified and practicing Counselling …
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Modernization and the Redefinition of Religion
… examination of how modernization impacts the religious beliefs of individuals. A social construction of knowledge model is used to predict that exposure to modernization will lead to a redefinition of religious faith. This redefinition can be summarized as a move from religion as a universal …
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Sacred + Profane
… the basic necessities becomes a daily struggle. Religious faith is something that remains strong in slum communities, although water, the most essential element is missing. I attempt to address both the religious faith of the community and their need for water by providing a place where the most …
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Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott
… as societies modernized, they would become less religious. In recent decades, this secularization thesis has come under fire from many scholars who suggest that the world is not become more secular, but rather that our understandings of religion and faith are changing. The conversation that has …
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
The subject of Scottish lay religious faith in the eighty years prior to the Reformation of 1559-60 is one in which a variety of concepts and concerns emerge. The choice which has been made reflects the constraints of time and space. Some attempt has also been made to address those areas which have …
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Faith, gender and peacebuilding: The roles of women of faith in peacebuilding in the Conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of south-western Kenya.
This thesis explores the roles of women of faith in peacebuilding in the conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of South-western Kenya. While religion has at times legitimated women’s exclusion and predominantly created male religious elite figures in peacebuilding, I demonstrate how women of faith …
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The Complex Ways Religion and Place Inform Climate Belief: Lessons from the Global Latter-day Saint (Mormon) Community
… congregations of the same unusually homogenous religious faith — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon). By interviewing participants from this single, standardised faith tradition in multiple contrasting places, I was able to assess whether shared religious faith …
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"Schoenberg, Dualism, And ""moses Und Aron"""
… and his experience in the conflicts of religious faith.
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How faith and leadership are connected: a study of Catholic women administrators in a southern public institution of higher education
… Using a research-based conceptual model for religious faith, developed within the study of family sciences, this study examines the lived experience of how and why Catholic women administrators connect their faith and leadership in a setting of public institutions of higher education. Using a …
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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
<p><em>Problem. </em> Faith in God is a phenomenon that is difficult to define. Yet, it can be seen as an attitude of complete trust in God. As Proctor (1995) stated, faith in God is believing that there is a purpose and a power (called God) available to each of us, giving us an "inexhaustible …
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From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930-1945
… deepened his understanding of the nature of religious faith itself. Second, grappling with this communist religion also drove Niebuhr to see more clearly the impotency of Western Christianity on the problem of justice. Third, his "flirtation" with Marxism not only led him to "rediscover" sin, …
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Erich Mendelsohn : from Berlin to Jerusalem
… his artistic ambiance, is also Mendelsohn's religious faith, national identity and political convictions. Mendelsohn was part of the Jewish post-assimilated generation in Germany - this experience is extended by Mendelsohn to the art of building, which was facilitated intellectually by Martin …
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Principals' decision making in discipline policy implementation: The Lutheran schools' perspective
… did not seem to be a strong relationship to religious faith and the selection of the objectivist philosophy, but data allow for a new category of visionary educators. Factors of the student did not influence satisfaction and self-reported effectiveness of administrators. Included are …
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The utilization of adventure-based programs in Christian education
… interest in Bible reading, intent to share religious faith, attitudes towards prayer, and perception of acceptance within the testing group. Pre- and post-program spirituality was self-reported using a 55-item Likert-type Scale instrument which was developed specifically for the study. …
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Science and religion in 21st century America : a sociological perspective.
… extensive selection of quantitative measures of religious attitudes and behaviors, and also includes a battery of questions aimed at assessing American attitudes about mainstream science. Among the topics addressed are acceptance of evolution, support for teaching creationism in public schools, …
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