نتایج جستجو برای: religious missionaries

تعداد نتایج: 43257  

Journal: :Comparative Studies in Society and History 2021

Abstract Missionaries have flocked to the Kyrgyz Republic ever since collapse of Soviet Union. Evangelical-Pentecostal and Tablighi missions been particularly active on what they conceive as a fertile post-atheist frontier. But these project their message truth onto frontier, dangers frontier may overwhelm them. Based long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst foreign local Tablighis evangelical-...

Journal: :European journal of cancer care 2008
C Zwingmann C Müller J Körber S Murken

Within the last few years the relationship between religiousness and psychosocial adjustment has become a subject of increasing interest. However, previous research did not explicitly differentiate between dispositional religious commitment and situation-specific religious coping. The current cross-sectional study investigated the relative power of religious commitment, positive and negative re...

Journal: :Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2016
Erin T Tobin Richard B Slatcher

OBJECTIVE Multiple aspects of religion have been linked with a variety of physical health outcomes; however, rarely have investigators attempted to empirically test the mechanisms through which religiosity impacts health. The links between religious participation, religious coping, and diurnal cortisol patterns over a 10-year period in a national sample of adults in the United States were inves...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2015
Zinzi D Bailey Natalie Slopen Michelle Albert David R Williams

This study examined the relationship between multiple dimensions of religious involvement and transitions of tobacco smoking abstinence, persistence, cessation and relapse over 9-10 years of follow-up in a national sample of adults in the United States. Using data provided at baseline and follow-up, participants were categorized as non-smokers, persistent smokers, ex-smokers, and relapsed smoke...

2004
Jonathan Gruber

The economic argument for subsidizing charitable giving relies on the positive externalities of charitable activities, particularly from the religious institutions that are the largest recipients of giving. But the net external effects of subsidies to religious giving will also depend on a potentially important indirect effect as well: impacts on religious participation. Religious participation...

2015
Tim Müller Nan Dirk De Graaf Peter Schmidt Tim S. Müller Nan Dirk de Graaf

Religious socialization occurs within the immediate family as well as in the broader social context. Previous research has shown that parents’ religiosity matters less for the transmission of religious beliefs in devout than in secular nations, implying smaller costs of religious socialization. In this paper we test which other societal factors affect the transmission of religious beliefs: anti...

Journal: :Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae 2004
Ross Lawrenson

New Zealand was discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Over the next ninety years, increasing numbers of medical practitioners visited and began to settle in what became a British colony. The first medical visitors were usually naval surgeons or served on board whaling ships. The major influx of doctors occurred at the behest of the New Zealand Company between 1840 and 1848, although Christian mis...

Journal: :Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos 2017
Valdemir Zamparoni

Drawing on documents produced between the early nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, mainly medical reports, this paper indicates the prevailing conceptions in the colonial medical community and local populations about leprosy, its manifestations, and how to deal with it. It focuses on the tensions concerning the practice of segregating lepers and its social and sanitation implications. To c...

Journal: :Cognition 2017
Aiyana K Willard Ara Norenzayan

The spiritual but not religious (SBNR) are a growing population in secularizing societies. Yet, we know little about the underlying psychology of this group or their belief profile. Based on an individual difference approach, we address this knowledge gap by comparing SBNR with religious and non-religious participants. In a sample of Americans (n=1013), we find that the SBNR differ from non-rel...

Journal: :Journal of reproduction & infertility 2016
Abdulaziz Aflakseir Mansoureh Mahdiyar

BACKGROUND One of the most common mental health problems among women with infertility problems is depression. Research has shown that religious beliefs and practices can help people to cope with difficult situations. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of different religious coping strategies in predicting depression in a group of infertile women in Shiraz. METHODS A total of 72...

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