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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"religious organizations"”.
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Effervescence and solidarity in religious organizations.
… interaction ritual theory in the context of religious organizations. The theory proposes that optimal management of bodily copresence, intersubjectivity, and barriers to outsiders stimulates collective effervescence and social solidarity. I use mixed methods to test the theory. In the …
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Improving religious organizations' effectiveness with battered women: advice from victim advocates
Religious organizations are in a unique position to assist battered women. The purpose of this study was to survey counselor/advocates who work at battered women's shelters to determine what advice they have to give to religious organizations to improve their effectiveness in helping battered …
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Engaging Immigrant Religious Organizations in HIV/AIDS Education: The Role of Social Networks
The higher rates of religious affiliation among immigrants and the expansive role of religious organizations in community life point to immigrant religious organizations' potential as an influential site for HIV/AIDS education. Using data from a study of Chinese immigrant religious organizations in …
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Schisms and Conflict Management in New African Immigrants’ Religious Organizations in the Greater Atlanta Area
<p>New African immigrant religious organizations (NAIRO) are transnational religious organizations established and led by new African immigrants (NAI). These organizations are experiencing planned growth as outlined in their manuals, but little is known about the internal conflicts that lead to …
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Desired Characteristics of Ethical Leaders in Business, Educational, Political and Religious Organizations from East Tennessee: A Delphi Investigation.
… corporations, and misuse of power in religous organizations.</p><p>In this study, I sought to identify and prioritize characteristics of ehtical leadership with the assistance of leaders in four distinct groups; the business, religious, political, and educational communities within a six county …
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Power in Religious Organizations: a Study of Principals' Perspectives as Seen in Three Religious High Schools in Michigan
… study focused on how power displays itself in religious organizations, and described particular activities that occur in the context of three religious schools in Michigan.</p> <p>Method. To accomplish the purpose of the study the literature on power was reviewed to identify the existing …
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The roles of religious organizations in HIV/Aids prevention among youth at Nquthu in Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa.
… human development as well as to the mission of religious organisation. Based on the reports by UNAIDS, in the year 2018, there were 37.9 million of individuals across the globe who lived with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, there is a dire need for religious leaders to exercise the power and authority that …
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Manajemen konflik pasangan perkawinan beda organisasi keagamaan dan implikasinya terhadap keluarga sakinah: Studi pasangan perkawinan warga NU-Muhammadiyah di Kota Batu
… of a marriage couple household life different religious organizations in Batu city. Second, to describe the issues and challenges facing households marriage couple different religious organizations in Batu city. third, to analyze the efforts made by marriage couple different religious …
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Wealth management and divorce: how stress adjustment affects the accumulation, management and distribution of wealth
… intentions for leaving assets to children, religious organizations, and non-religious charities. For all subgroups, precautionary savings behaviors and retirement savings intially decreased post-divorce, then stabilized and increased in later years. Similarly, for all subgroups risky asset …
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The adult volunteer instructors' rite of initiation: training as a socialization process
… courses to citizens in schools, worksites, religious organizations, and recreational centers. Yet prior to this study little was known about this process by which an individual was transformed from a willing volunteer into a volunteer instructor.
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"""Horny -Handed Sons of Toil"": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880--1910"
… and the efforts of Catholic and African-American religious organizations to protest against it.
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Silence and Invisibility: A Feminist Case Study of Domestic Violence in the Lives of Five Korean-American Women
… the health care system, the legal system, and religious organizations also contributed to sustaining and perpetuating domestic violence. The nefarious nature of domestic violence exposed states of trauma in all of the women, yet the strength of the women revealed the survivors within.
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Religious exemptions from employment discrimination laws: A moral and theological analysis
… Act, as amended, includes an exemption for religious organizations from its prohibitions against employment discrimination on the basis of religion, and the federal courts have imputed an additional exemption with respect to "ministerial" employees on the basis of First Amendment …
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Topics in Selective Migration and Economic Assimilation of New Immigrants
… new immigrants utilize potential resources from religious organizations to help their entrepreneurial businesses in the United States (U.S.). Although a number of qualitative studies have previously identified the resource attainment through ethnic churches among immigrant entrepreneurs, such …
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An Application of Hirschi's Theory of Social Control to the Study of Partner Abuse
… programs, the other half belonged to civic or religious organizations. Crosstabulations were used to analyze the data. The Chi-square test of independence was used with an alpha level set at p <.05. Overall, strong support was indicated for both attachment and belief variables. These findings …
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An exploration of the lived experiences of returned Mormon missionaries
… been conducted in the area of coping styles of religious missionaries. This study is an attempt to contribute to this area of knowledge. This project also relied on qualitative research methods in order to describe the lived experiences of returned Mormon missionaries, to identify daily …
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An Ethnographic Study of Human Trafficking in Springfield: a Real Or Perceived Problem?
… protocol. In the Springfield community, religious and secular organizations and groups are currently shaping the human trafficking movement. With so many groups interested in human trafficking, there are many definitions of trafficking and perceptions of trafficking that are in conflict …
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Social support and its influence on college students' understanding of moral expertise.
… faculty, staff, peers, and social, as well as religious, communities. Fourteen students were interviewed in their first and third years of enrollment, culminating in 28 total interviews. Data were coded and analyzed to discern how students understood moral expertise. The findings suggest that …
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The effects of accumulated wealth and corporate governance quality on nonprofit performance
… 9% of employment), the impact of governance in organizations with accumulated wealth has not been studied much. Using recent data on governance practices at nonprofits reported on IRS Form 990’s and structural equation modeling/partial least squares analysis, this study finds that the strength …
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Beyond the evacuation zone: Japanese evacuation and resettlement in Spokane, Washington
… businesses and occupations, and social and religious organizations"--Document.</p>
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