Browsing by Subject "religion"
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1951)
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1923)
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(2012-04-30)Since the early 1970’s, religious violence and terrorism have become salient topics in American political and social discourse. The growing prominence of religious violence underscores the need to understand these acts ...
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(2021-04-13)In this study, a systematic review was conducted to assess the facilitators and barriers of conducting adult health programs within the African-American church. Findings from this study were stratified by using the ...
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The Catholic pantheon of Saints is a vast and expansive collection of unique characters. Their escapades are outlined primarily in the Bible, but also spread across texts such as the Torah and Quran and even secular spaces. ...
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(2021-12-21)The Digital Religion Yearbook is a new publication compiled and published by the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies. It aims is to spotlight important recently published articles, emerging scholars, ...
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(2009-05-15)There has been little scientific work exploring eating pathology among Jewish women in the United States, even though research has suggested that body image and eating behavior may be especially problematic within this ...
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(2018-06-19)The REACH forgiveness intervention is an empirically supported treatment for unforgiveness that has been researched extensively with college students and other populations. Despite this, the efficacy of REACH has never ...
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(2022-04-19)Research in this dissertation is a recontextualization of social and cultural theories into the rich world of symbols and their meanings within sports as a totemic phenomenon. The purposes of this dissertation are to ...
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(2020-07-15)The economics of altruistic behavior, and specifically the economics of charitable giving, is a large and rich field of research. This is not without cause: charitable giving is a significant household decision. We contribute ...
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Following an analysis of the current religious demographics trend in America, The Pew Research Center suggests that the percentage of individuals who identify as Christian could decline to half of the current population ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)This study utilized a multi-level model to examine the impact of religion as an occupation on mortality. Death certificate data were used to examine clergy mortality and compares them to census categorized professionals, ...
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(2014-11-26)This paper investigates the relationship between a person’s level of religiosity, their ability to tolerate outsiders to their faith and their level of openness-to-experience (a big five personality trait). This relationship ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This study explored the effects of a person's God image and religiosity on his or her attitudes toward seeking mental health services. God image for participants was measured using the God Image Scale (Lawrence, 1997) and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This dissertation seeks to evaluate and reformulate the sociology of religion through an integration of the work of Carl G. Jung and others. The purpose of such a reformulation is to develop a "new" theoretical framework ...
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(2018-04-23)This dissertation illuminates and elucidates the ways that Protestant fundamentalism was manifested and applied in the African American community during the modernist-fundamentalist controversy, from 1915-1940. In contrast ...
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(2009-06-02)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among religious coping, acceptance of diabetes, social support, diabetes management, and quality of life among individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Religious ...
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(2014-09-29)Religious clients represent a growing population of mental health consumers, and their problem presentations are complicated by their religious beliefs. Leading scholars assert that religious beliefs of clients are not ...
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(1997)This research investigates Martin Luther King, Jr.' s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the political and religious context of the letter. The methodological approach was interdisciplinary, including oral historical and ...
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(2016-05-03)Understanding how religious leaders use the internet to maintain their religious authority has been an area of study in media studies for the past twenty years. Little consensus has been reached as to what religious authority ...