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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Spiritual Healing"”.
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Spiritual healing experiences of rape survivors
… their churches, and therefore claim to be healed spiritually. This study was conducted in the Nkangala district of South Africa because of the high incidence of reported rape cases. While it is estimated that one woman is raped in every five minutes in this district, there are only three …
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Malliar Bellian Spiritual Healing from Trauma Scale: Preliminary Scale Development
The unique role of spirituality in trauma recovery in helping professions has highlighted the necessity for developing measurements to assess the level of healing among people who have experienced traumatic events. However, there is no single dedicated scale to assess spiritual healing from trauma. …
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Women's experiences of breast cancer and spiritual healing: a unitary appreciative inquiry.
… understanding of the effects and outcomes of Spiritual Healing in the context of women with breast cancer receiving long-term hormonal therapy. Background Spiritual Healing is widely available and used by many but is a neglected area of research. Whilst the exact mechanisms are not understood …
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Becoming grounded to grow: A model of traditional spiritual healing/care in the everyday context
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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An investigation into the phenomena and practices of spiritual healing: a comparative study of two churches
This study addresses how ‘Spiritual Healing’ is administered in two Christian churches with similar doctrine but a different approach to how that doctrine is understood and practised. The divergence in eschatologies of the two different denominational congregations influences the way they integrate …
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Spiritual healing in search of an identity: analysis of spiritual healers’ own accounts of healing in Britain from 1900 to 1965
Contemporary literature on spiritual healing, both academic and popular, often assumes that all spiritual healing is essentially the same and that there has been a gradual and developmental progression through time, from early religious and traditional healing, through the Holistic Health movement …
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Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Osteoarthritis Treatments among the Medicare Population
… <p>Overall, for the total sample, prayer/spiritual healing had the highest utility value (.71). Therefore, all groups did not place higher utility on allopathic treatments over CAM treatments as hypothesized. When looking at product shares of preference, prayer/spiritual healing also had …
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"We're all individuals": postmodernity and alternative health practices in Northern England
… explores the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing - therapies located on the fringe of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - and what these 'represent' in the context of a profound socio-cultural transformation, characterised by the shift in Western societies from …
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Adventist Medical Mission in Botswana: Toward an Effective and Appropriate Model
… Independent Churches (AICs) with emphasis on spiritual healing. However, at times this comes with negative consequences.</p> <p>This research sought to understand why medicalpluralism exists in Botswana and the rest of southern Africa, and why it finds concurrent use by Africans; solutions can …
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Making the Connection: J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Forms of Africa
… created art works that served as the conduit for spiritual healing or protection between his God, his ancestral energies and the recipients or viewers of his work. Protection through writing is both an Islamic and indigenous African tradition. Art Historians, after seeing Murray’s work, called it …
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Addressing the experience of parents of substance abusing youth : a model for pastoral care
… can be used by the church to provide effective spiritual care to the parents of Nyaope-addicted youth. Nyaope is an emerging yet highly addictive drug, which has gained a strong foothold amongst the youth in South African Townships. Addicts often become delinquents in society by turning to …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
… Muharram practices, and non-institutionalized spiritual healing. Two theoretical paradigms frame the ethnography. The first is Talal Asad’s (1986) notion that an anthropology of Islam should approach Islam as a discursive tradition and second, various iterations of the Karbala Paradigm (Fischer …
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An exploration of the cultural context and consequences of perceptions of illness and health-seeking behaviour of the Baloch
… and many socio-cultural phenomena and ritual healing practices were participated in and observed. It was observed that Baloch beliefs regarding health and illness revolve either on the concept of natural causes that are mainly due to humoral imbalance or supernatural causes: spirit possession, …
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The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission
… TRC with the intent to create an atmosphere of “spiritual healing”. This symbolic and inter-personal understanding of justice in turn, it can be argued, came at the expense of retributive and/ or socio-economic justice. The influence of religion within the TRC can be seen most strongly in the …
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Weaving the Black Tapestry: A Decolonising Counter-Storytelling of Black Doctoral Student Experiences in the UK, Analysed with Loom Analysis
… in a way that is ethical, decolonial, and healing (Maseti, 2018; Pratt et al., 2017). I seek to build upon existing insights pertaining to the perceptions, navigation, and experiences of academia by Black students along with the ways they are impacted emotionally, mentally, and academically …
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A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between Instructor and Students' Perception of Spiritual Care Curriculum Content
… between student and instructor perceptions of spiritual care as it is contained within their nursing schools' curricula. Student and instructor perceptions of spiritual nursing care, of the number of hours of spiritual care content, of perceptions of the extent that spiritual care is applied by …
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The Healing Ministry of Jesus as Recorded in the Synoptic Gospels
<p>This study explores the narratives in the healing ministry of Jesus as recorded in the synoptic gospels. The majority of the healing narratives address issues that transcend physical aspects and point to Jesus' attempt to restore the whole person. This is reflected in the fact that more than …
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War and Grief, Faith and Healing in a Tamil Catholic Fishing Village in Northern Sri Lanka
… Catholic devotion and the possibility of healing of traumatic experiences of war through that devotion. The study thereby opens up a new field of anthropological investigation of displacement, social suffering, faith and healing. It contributes, among others, to the anthropology of …
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Spirituality's Role in the Interaction Between Child Welfare and Black Families
… California, jointly construct the role that spirituality/religion plays in engaging, assessing and intervening with African American families. Utilizing a constructivist paradigm, the goals were to, through the development of "hermeneutic dialectic" circles, (1) arrive at shared constructions …
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