Kasstan, Ben
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Culture, medicine and psychiatry
This paper explores how criticism surrounding the ethics and safety of biomedical technologies circulates and 'converts' through global-local religious encounters, producing new claims of moral opposition and rights to religious freedom. The paper is concerned with the question of what rhetorical devices make vaccine safety doubt relevant to religi...
Debras, François
ITW réalisée par Etopia sur les discours et l'idéologie des partis politiques d'extrême droite, leur utilisation de certains termes (démocratie, laïcité, égalité homme-femme, écologie...) et leur structuration rhétorique.
Buckley, Katie L Carey, Lindsay B
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Journal of religion and health
Systems thinking approaches can benefit the occupational vocal health of vocally reliant workers. This paper explores community faith leaders as an example of a highly vocally reliant occupation, who may benefit from systems thinking being used to support their vocal occupational health and safety. A scoping review of the current literature regardi...
Klitzman, Robert
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Journal of religion and health
Religion often aids patients, but critical questions arise concerning how patients approach issues regarding prayer. In-depth interviews suggest 12 key patient decisions and aspects of prayer-who prays, to whom (e.g., explicitly to "God" or not), for whom (for self or others), for what (e.g., for symptom reduction), when (regularly or only during c...
Gad, Ibtissam Tan, Xiao-Wei Cherie Williams, Sarah Itawi, Sally Dahbour, Layth Rotter, Zachary Mitro, Graham Rusch, Courtney Perkins, Sara Ali, Imran
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Journal of religion and health
According to many studies, addressing the religious and spiritual (R/S) needs of patient's increase patient satisfaction. One area of interest is how patient self-perceived level of religiosity and spirituality (R/S) influences hospital needs. In this cross-sectional study, 195 inpatients at a non-faith-based academic hospital in Toledo, OH, USA co...
Carey, Lindsay B Cohen, Jeffrey Aiken, Carl Koenig, Harold G Hill, Terrence Gabbay, Ezra Carey, Jacinda R
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Journal of religion and health
Four key topics are explored in this second issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022. Following a condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, (1) the lead topic for this issue forms a special section regarding contemporary chaplaincy, which is followed by (2) ongoing research concerning cancer, (3) aged care and finally (4) the con...
Jung, Jong Hyun Lee, Hyo Jung
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Aging & mental health
The death of a child may be one of the most stressful events for parents to experience. This study aims to assess how the death of a child prior to midlife is associated with the mental health of parents in later life, and how this association is contingent upon religious belief in a divine plan. Using data from aging parents (aged 65 and older) in...
Fatima, Huma Oyetunji, Tosin Philip Mishra, Sudha Sinha, Krittika Olorunsogbon, Olorunyomi Felix Akande, Oluwayemi Samson Srinivasan, Kar, Sujita Kumar
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The International journal of social psychiatry
Religious and spiritual coping strategies is one of the possible tools that can be used to deal with stress and the negative consequences of life problems and illnesses. The study aims to assess religious coping in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was an online survey. The sample was collected using a snowball sampling technique as the data we...
Scherz, China Mpanga, George Namirembe, Sarah
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Culture, medicine and psychiatry
In recent years, alcohol abuse and dependence have become topics of increasing concern in Uganda, but the chronic relapsing brain disease model of addiction remains only one of many ways of understanding and addressing alcohol-related problems there. For many Ugandan Pentecostals and spirit mediums to be addicted is to be under the control of a bei...
Spence, Nicholas D Warner, Erica T Farvid, Maryam S VanderWeele, Tyler J Zhang, Ying Hu, Frank B Shields, Alexandra E
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Annals of epidemiology
To investigate religion and spirituality (R/S) as psychosocial factors in type 2 diabetes risk. Using the Nurses' Health Study II, we conducted a 14-year prospective analysis of 46,713 women with self-reported use of religion or spiritual beliefs to cope with stressful situations, and 42,825 women with self-reported religious service attendance, wi...
