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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"local beliefs"”.
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Understanding Death in Cultural Context: A Study of Mexican Children and Their Families
… perspectives on death within the context of local beliefs and practices. This study was informed by concepts and methods from clinical studies of bereavement, cognitive developmental studies of children's concepts of death, and studies of socialization and development in cultural context. …
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"Missionary tongues": The origins and intersections of Pentecostalism in West Africa and North America
… by temporal and spatial interactions between local beliefs and other Christian traditions. Those Christian traditions cultivated understandings of common Pentecostal beliefs in unique contexts framed by distinct geographical and cultural interactions. West African and North American …
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
… for superiority over each other and over local beliefs. Many research areas in bioarchaeology have moved away from the more simplistic processual approach after a renewed understanding of the complexities of human existence. However, this newer methodology has not been sufficiently applied …
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Drums, Raps, and Song-Games: An Ethnography of Music and Peacebuilding in the Afro-Colombian Town of Libertad (Sucre)
… the community and its social fabric. Based on local beliefs that cultural and artistic practices play key roles creating frameworks for collective action and community-building, they designed projects to revive traditional musics and cultural expressions as well as to create new works that …
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A formative study on the adaptation of mental health promotion programmes for perinatal depression in West Chitwan
… antenatal or postnatal service providers. Using local expressions for common depressive symptoms such as loss of interest, rumination, pessimistic views, extreme worries, restlessness, two separate CIDTs were developed each for antenatal and postnatal depression. Lack of support from the husband …
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Capturing the soul : encounters between Berlin missionaries and Tshivenda-speakers in the late nineteenth century
… 1990s, missionaries and their interaction with local societies began to assume a central role in historiographical debates in, and about, South Africa. This new focus built on pioneering work produced during the preceding two decades. My study foregrounds the value of the archives and library of …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
… values deeply rooted in African Christian beliefs which greatly influence the interpretation of the bible. The objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the major religious teachings of the Mutima Church as a way of understanding its doctrines, (2) investigate the religious practices and …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
… values deeply rooted in African Christian beliefs which greatly influence the interpretation of the bible. The objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the major religious teachings of the Mutima Church as a way of understanding its doctrines, (2) investigate the religious practices and …
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A study evaluating the social and cultural context of a counselling booklet containing infant feeding and caring messages - a component of a community-based health package in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal
… role of men in infant feeding and caring issues; local beliefs and practices that encouraged risky infant caring practices; the lack of supply of formula and CHWs' lack of breastfeeding knowledge and experience; and HIV-related stigma may directly or indirectly, drive mothers to practice …