Prior to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, churches in Nigeria contended with Bokoharam insurgency which mainly affected Northern Nigeria. However, COVID-19 various all nooks and crannies country. It brought about obvious changes numerous practices Long-standing traditions such as solemnisation Holy Matrimony, Communion, baptism, prayer sharing peace (This practice i...

Abstract Three studies investigated the effects of two fundamental dimensions social perception on emotional contagion (i.e., transfer emotions between people). Rooting our hypotheses in Dual Perspective Model Agency and Communion (Abele Wojciszke Adv Exp Soc Psychol 50:198–255, 10.1016/B978-0-12-800284-1.00004-7 , 2014), we predicted that agency would strengthen communion mimicry (a process of...

Prior to the mid-1780s, the religious community called the Episcopal Church in the United States or the Protestant Episcopal Church was known as the Church of England. Following the war for independence, however, Anglican leaders in the new nation reorganized this religious body, and the Protestant Episcopal Church became the selfgoverning American branch of the Anglican communion. The preface ...

Bedside psychotherapy with medically ill patients can help counter their demoralization, which is the despair, helplessness, and sense of isolation that many patients experience when affected by illness and its treatments. Demoralization can be usefully regarded as the compilation of different existential postures that position a patient to withdraw from the challenges of illness. A fruitful in...

The self-concept plays an important role in conformity to sex-typed social norms. Normative beliefs that men are powerful, dominant, and self-assertive and that women are caring, intimate with others, and emotionally expressive represent possible standards for whom people ought to be and whom they ideally would like to be. In the present research, to the extent that sex role norms were personal...

Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI proposes a pneumatology derived from the Trinitarian dogma, strictly linked with Christology and having anthropological, ecclesiological, pastoral consequences (in domain of spirituality). All theological subdisciplines remain orthodox lead to truth only when interlinked, but has particularly “linking” quality because it concerns One who is, essentially, communio...