Published in Journal of religion and health
People with disabilities often lack full access to corporate worship and participation in their faith communities. Yet many church leaders experience uncertainty about the steps they should take to remove barriers and widen the welcome for members of their community who are impacted by disability. This study examined the recommendations of people w...
This special issue brings together nine articles under the rubric “Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages: between coexistence and conflict”. The articles explore various aspects of the intellectual, social, legal and ideological aspects of relations between Christians and Muslims. The title of our issue might seem to suggest binary oppositions ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Introduction Refugees experience higher rates of mental illness such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which are documented risk factors for dementia. Faith and spiritual practices have been shown to play a significant role in patients' understanding and coping with illness, however, this field of study among refugee populatio...
Published in Journal of religion and health
This article aims to identify factors that may be important in the inclusion process of people with disabilities in religious communities. This text was based upon the interviews conducted with 10 respondents who belonged to Christian communities. They were characterised by a diverse approach, and are therefore referred to in this article as spirit...
Published in American journal of community psychology
Dominant group members often are not aware of the privileges they benefit from due to their dominant group membership. Yet individuals are members of multiple groups and may simultaneously occupy multiple categories of dominance and marginality, raising the question of how different group memberships work in concert to facilitate or inhibit awarene...
The author of the article argues that archaic myths about Mother Earth do not die in our subconscious, especially the Greek myth of Gaia, who gave birth to everything up to heaven, the ocean and gods; it is later transformed into a materialist view of being. These myths are full of both admiration for the life-giving power of the Earth and fear of ...
Dodecalogue of errors and nonsense / I believe that the secular influence of the theology and dogmatics of the Church (inherited, to a large extent, by the Lutheran reformers), as well as the ideology generated over eighteen centuries on the substratum of the New Testament, have led and They continue to lead in the XXI century to great errors of st...
The Christian myth archaic origins. The sacrificial and violent death of the Sacred King (the queen´s son or Neolithic goddess's son) was the foremost part of an archaic ritual that, periodically, pursued the propitiatory influence of Earth Goddess 's invisible forces and energies on cosmos renewal and the tribe's impurities and sins expiation. It ...
L’allaitement et la transmission du lait peuvent être lus comme des moyens de créer des êtres relationnels, au sens de Marilyn Strathern. Au Moyen Âge l’allaitement pouvait créer des liens entre hommes, femmes, bêtes et saints. Entre le XIIe et le XIVe siècle, un important travail de refonte des catégories est en cours, cherchant à définir à de nou...
Published in Public understanding of science (Bristol, England)
Nonreligious individuals stereotype Christians as unscientific and see Christianity and science as conflicting. The present studies examined how perceptions of incompatibility between Christianity and science influence nonreligious individuals' stereotypes of Christians in science in the US context. We measured (Study 1) and manipulated (Study 2) p...
