Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Vol. 1, No. 3, 2011 ABSTRACT Purpose: To discover, describe and analyze the traditional generic (lay, folk, indigenous) and professional care meanings, beliefs, and practices related to health and illness of traditional Syrian Muslims in the Midwestern United States (US). Design and Research Methods: Leininger’s Culture Care Theory...

Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers clear benefits to many, in this paper we explore whether it may also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and sub...

Patterns of family life, debates in politics, religious observances, technological inventions, scientiŽc beliefs, literature, and the arts – all of these things are aspects of human culture. Typically we deŽne a broad concept of human culture in contrast to physical and biological processes. One key feature differentiates the cultural even if the precise boundaries between it, the physical, and...

annually, many women become pregnant worldwide; however, pregnancy and childbirth is not a pleasant event for all them. in fact, more than 90% of maternal anxiety could be related to the delivery process. it should be noted that delivery is also a stressful event that sometimes, due to different reasons and in order to avoid its potential hazards which could threaten the lives of mother and bab...

I. Basic Beliefs of Islam. Before taking up the subject of Islamic theology proper I should like, by way of introduction, to outline the basic religious beliefs which are common to all Muslims. As you may know, Islam was founded by the Prophet Muh.ammad in the Arabian Peninsula in the first quarter of the seventh century. At the age of forty the Prophet began to receive certain revelations whic...

Research on religion and prejudice has mostly been limited to Western Christian participants and beliefs. Evidence, overall, favors the idea of a religion-prejudice link. Does this also hold for East Asian religions, usually perceived as tolerant, and cultures, characterized by holistic thinking and tolerance of contradictions? We review here four recent studies and provide meta-analytic estima...

Hindus in Bali cannot be separated from beliefs and traditions that are considered to have religious ethical values. Tradition Hindu society has many forms, all of which become the breath implementation ceremonies carried out through Panca Yadnya. One them is Tampiog village Pakraman Manukaya Let held a series piodalan at Bale Agung Temple. The tradition kicking mound embers. This been accepted...

although effects of religious beliefs on mental health have not been greately studied, however available evidence in this field has shown that these beleifs have substantial effects on all aspects of human life, e.g., they may prevent drug or alcohol abuse. deep religious beliefs buffer the outcome of stress, depression, delinquency and divorce in religious people and substantially reduce suici...