Faith Of People Research Articles

It's a Miracle: Separating the Miraculous from the Mundane

What aspects and features of events impel people to label them as miraculous? Three studies examined people's miracle conceptions and the factors that lead them to designate an event as a miracle. Study 1 identified the basic elements of laypersons’ miracle beliefs by instructing participants to define a miracle, to list five events that they considered miraculous, and to state what they believed to be the purpose of miracles. Results showed that individuals tend to view miracles as highly improbable and beneficial occurrences that instill hope and faith in people. Studies 2 and 3 investigated people's intuitive miracle theories. Findings demonstrated that people tend to label events as miracles when the events in question were of high magnitude, were obtained in an unusual manner, resulted in a beneficial health outcome, personally affected the participant, involved a person of worthy character, and depicted a low-probability event.

Икона в военных рассказах А. Платонова

In the article is examined the role of icon in stories by A. Platonov 1941–1945 yr. In the poetics of military stories the icon occupies strategic positions (title, exposure, the central event of subject) and appears as the sacral sign of the religious memory of man and depth of people faith.

Women traficking in Peshawar, Pakistan: does socio-psychological perception matter?

The present study was conducted in District Jail, Peshawar, Pakistan by selecting 84 offenders involved in Women Trafficking, through snow ball sampling techniques for measuring therespondent’s knowledge on women trafficking with the psychological aspect, leading to women trafficking. Majority of the respondents i.e. (79.8%) considered little effects of social stigmatization followed by forced marriage for money (73.8%), feigned love (69.0%) and identifying normative behavior (61.9%) as the major causes of women trafficking in the study area. Moreover, a moderate but negative relation was determined between force marriage for money (Ƴ =-0.418), early age group women fall prey to women trafficking (Ƴ =-0.40) and a positive relationship between little effects of stigmatization (Ƴ =0.310) with knowledge on women trafficking. In addition, a significant but negative relationship was also ascertained between forced marriage for money (p<0.05) with knowledge on women trafficking. The study concluded that the respondents had a clear vision of fatal consequences of women trafficking to the society, with no societal endorsement to love marriages rather adherence to the traditional arranged marriages, marriages for money was although in practice etc. the people faith in early marriage as pro religion. A comprehensive campaign on print and electronic media to propagate women trafficking as a curse to the society, strict punishment through legislative bodies approval, revisiting the religious concept of early marriages and cultural perspectives based on normative behavior while focusing on assimilation through academic research were forwarded as policy recommendations in light f the study.Key Words: Women Trafficking, Attitude, Knowledge, and Measurement.

Relationships Among Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, and Faith in People in Chinese Heroin Abusers

The relationships among self-esteem, self-efficacy, and faith in people in Chinese heroin abusers were investigated. We used 3 rating scales to survey a sample of 200 heroin abusers: the Self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965), the Self-efficacy Questionnaire for Chinese Drug Users (Geng & Han, 2008), and the Faith in People Scale (Rosenberg, 1956). A correlation analysis and a regression analysis were employed to analyze the data. The correlations among self-esteem, self-efficacy, and faith in people were significantly positive. Self-efficacy and faith in people results were found to be predictive of the self-esteem level of participants at a statistically significant level.

The Frame of Informational Reform in the Supervision System of Power Operation - The District-Level Power Supervising Organs of Chinese Cities for Example

The deficiency and vacancy of supervision during the operation of the Power, are always directly related to bull supervision and management which sometimes lead to multiple standards. Because people who manipulate power have different educational background, ideology and even faith, the abuse of power becomes liable. The existent power operation system entails not only the high operation cost and low efficiency but also the sanction shortage of supervision system and mechanism. Therefore, when we are attempting to achieve the reduction of operation costs and improve the efficiency of the supervision, we should first solve the deficiency and vacancy of supervision within the existent system, break the " versatile power operation system" concept, reform the mode of power allocation, and build a new integral supervision and management system in the power operation. In addition, we should also make use of modern electronic information surveillance platform, associate the anti-corruption control system with information, technology and accountability mechanism, in order to reduce the possibility of corruption on the level of heteronomy, and promote the scientific ,reasonable and effective anti-corruption. Corruption is a tumor of society. It reduces the credibility of the power sector and affect the political environment of society. Especially grassroots power departments and functional departments, accompanied by the absence of people's faith and the regradation of morality, present the multiple and diverse forms of corruption, this situation highlights importance of the reform toward the corruption of supervision. It is an urgent need of both the social development and the institutional reform to build a scientific and rational power supervision system and to realize the scientific anti-corruption. As the party and our country are developing, the construction of anti-corruption is now facing many new conflicts and problems that the organs and sections are arbitrarily internalizing the "insiders" and not following the rules to deal with problems and that the nonfeasance of supervising department still cannot be eluded. Nowadays we can clearly see that the anti-corruption work is continuously proceeding with achievements; On the other hand, as the corruption is effectively under control, there are many new features and problems coming out; corruption is in a new guise, and switching techniques, the hidden corrupt network is still functioning throughout the anti-corruption, the situation is still severe, and the task is also still arduous.

산업화와 건축 디자인의 변천에 관한 연구

산업화는 근대화 및 근대건축의 탄생에 중요한 역할을 담당하였다. 산업화에 의한 변화와 그 결과물에 대한 믿음은 건축에 대한 사고와 과정도 산업화와 연관 지으려는 시도로 나타나게 된다. 건축을 산업화 과정에 편입시키기 위해서는 건축을 더 이상 과거의 역사주의적 전통이 아니라 실질적인 과학기술과 직접적으로 접목시켜 이해하는 것이 필요하게 되었다. 20세기 초 건축을 산업생산물의 일종으로 파악하려는 것은 두가지 의미로서 하나는 건축의 결과물에 대한 인식이며 또하나는 건축의 과정도 산업 생산의 과정으로 이끌어가고자 하는 생각이다. 본 연구에서는 산업혁명 이후 근대 초기 까지 이러한 산업화에 의한 건축의 변화 과정을 살펴보고 그 의의와 영향을 살펴보는데 그 목적이 있다. Industrialization played an important role in modernization and the birth of modern architecture. The changes caused by the industrialization and people's faith in its output are reflected in an attempt to associate the concepts and process of architecture with industrialization. In the course of incorporating architecture into the industrialization process, it became necessary to understand the architecture from practical point of view connecting it directly with scientific technology rather than in the context of historical tradition in the past. Understanding architecture as a kind of industrial production signifies two concepts. One is regarding perception of architectural outputs. The other is regarding the intention to proceed architectural process as a process of industrial production. The purpose of this study is to review the changes in the architecture influenced by industrialization from post-industrialization through early modern period and to analyze its significance and influence.

Med troen som fællesnævner – fællesskab blandt unge i Indre Mission

<div>Artiklen vil belyse de mekanismer, der ligger til grund for et velfungerende fællesskab i en af Indre Missions ungdomsforeninger i Århus. Troen har på forskellige måder en central position i fællesskabet, og denne artikel vil argumentere for de unges tro som en social identitet, idet deres habitus synes at have en afgørende betydning for den og deres oplevelse af det religiøst funderede fællesskab. Artiklenvil også belyse, hvordan Biblen og dens fortællinger udgør den fortolkningsramme, som de unge er opvokset med og forstår livet igennem. Artiklen viser desuden den rolle, det kollektive samvær spiller i de unges konstruktion af Gud og egen identitet som kristen.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Faith as common ground- community feeling among young evangelicals in Denmark</div><div><br /></div><div>The aim of this article is to demonstrate the mechanisms that underlie a youth association in the so-called Home Mission, a branch of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. It is the result of anthropological research focusing on the sense of community among members aged between 15 and 27. In a number of ways faith plays a central role in the community, and the main argument of the article is that the young people's faith constitutes a social identity, since their habitus seems to have a decisive impact on their experience of the faith-based community. The article further demonstrates how the Bible and its narratives form the framework of interpretation with which the young people have grown up, and which, in their present life as adults, continues to mould their understanding and view of life, as well as the role that collective interaction plays in the young people's construction of God and their own identity as Christians. A core argument in the article is that faith is a socialization into a structure which results in all participants having the same frame of reference and therefore experiencing a strong feeling of community with one another within this particular wing of the Church of Denmark. <br /> <br /></div>

Empirical Correlates and Expanded Interpretation of the MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical Scale 3 (Cynicism)

The recent release of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) has received much attention from the clinical psychology community. Particular concerns have focused on Restructured Clinical Scale 3 (RC3; Cynicism). This article briefly reviews the major criticisms and responses regarding the restructuring of Clinical Scale 3. The primary purpose of the article is to provide expanded interpretive perspectives on RC3 by correlating it with a selection of external variables that are conceptually related. Forty undergraduate volunteers completed the MMPI-2-RF as well as measures of Machiavellianism, alienation, faith in people, and locus of control. Results showed strong correlations between RC3 and Machiavellianism (.47) and alienation (.60), with item-level information that may extend existing interpretive statements to include, not just a cynical view of others, but a willingness to intentionally lie, cheat, deceive, and manipulate (i.e., Machiavellianism).

The British Fight against Cancer: Publicity and Education, 1900-1948

This article explores the early history of cancer education in Britain, focusing on the period between 1900, when discussions about a public ‘crusade’ against cancer began in Britain, and the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. Arising from debates around the development of invasive operations for cervical cancer, the campaign had a cautious start because of important uncertainties about the efficacy of available therapies, worries about the undesirable effects of partial knowledge, and anxieties about creating demands that could not be fulfilled. Against this background, anti-cancer activists attempted to produce a discourse which would not undermine people's faith in medical science, and which would encourage people to consult their doctors without putting excessive pressure on health services funded by public money. A ‘regime’ of hope came to the fore that served to draw patients, philanthropists, practitioners and researchers together into a joint market agenda.

Diversity and Unity of the Perceptions of Death in Rituals : The Cases of People's Temple, Dogon, and Bahai Faith

Diversity and Unity of the Perceptions of Death in Rituals : The Cases of People's Temple, Dogon, and Bahai Faith

Oikopolitics, and Storms

In his 2009 Inaugural speech, US President Obama spoke of America's future by not only invoking We People's faith in founding ideals and documents, but he did so–by this time, as his signature rhetoricity—by evoking Every so often, he remarked, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. He also spoke of an immeasurable sapping of confidence in America's futurity, alongside indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics, such as foreclosures, rising unemployment, and a costly health care. The essay that follows was written just prior to that speech, but it nevertheless attempts to understand how measurable acquaints itself with immeasurable (desire and future) through a meshing of gender, race, sex, labour and desire in accounting of household–and oikos , in all its etymological tightening. The question, in one sense, is how coincidence of crises financial and climatic might unfold and recompose an oikopolitics. The concept of an oikopolitics is offered here as something far more explanatory of genealogical and familial than understandings of sovereignty through a biopolitical lens have admitted, and something far less subjectively universal than many accounts of affect and intimacy aspire to. It does not simply point to a blurring of classical distinction between public realm of politics and private domain of household in trammelling of arousal to labouring, and a socio-political horizon whose possible forms of relation are those of national state conceived as home. It is also explanatory of ways politics assumes task of securing an intimately normative disposition, raising of a properly political subject on grounds of at once familial and national. It is, in another sense then, a post-autonomist contribution to discussions that, thankfully, remain turbulent.

Nurses and Healthcare Chaplains: Natural Allies

ABSTRACT The collaborative relationship between nurses and chaplains in the health care setting is well documented. The authors review research findings including survey results demonstrating the importance of religion and spirituality in the general population and the importance of the religion and faith in people suffering illnesses. Nurses and physicians show marked differences in their attention to spiritual care as evidenced by nurses' higher rates of referrals to chaplains and the greater quantity of nursing research on sprirituality in professional journals. Three factors that might account for nurses' recognition of spiritual needs are: 1) the inclusion of spiritual care in the nursing curriculum, 2) personal involvement in faith communities and, 3) the historical influences of the nursing profession. Further research of this partnership and its effect on patient care should ultimately benefit the most vulnerable individuals in the health care setting.

The Sensitive Left and the Impervious Right

Recent years have seen increased attention to integrating what we know about individual citizens with what we know about macro-level contexts that vary across countries. This article discusses the growing literature on how people's interpretations, opinions, and actions are shaped by variable contextual parameters and provides a novel substantive application. Using surveys conducted in 20 European democracies, the authors examine the effect of income inequality on people's attitudes about the functioning of the political system and trust in public institutions. They find that citizens in countries with higher levels of income inequality express more negative attitudes toward public institutions. Moreover, they show that the negative effect of inequality on attitudes toward the political system is particularly powerful among individuals on the political left. In contrast, inequality's negative effect on people's faith in the system is muted among those on the right.

Consumption of fallen umbilical cord stump as a treatment for infertility: A case study from Puducherry

Infertility is a stigma. The high cost and inaccessibility to treatment turn infertile couples to faith-based alternatives or practices that have been passed down from generation to generation. This report describes a case in which a woman consumed the umbilical cord stump to treat infertility. Initially, this incidence was reported in March 2006 by undergraduate students from the Kurusukuppam area of the Urban Health Centre of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER). This lower-middle class family consisted of RK, his wife G, his mother T and daughters of RK and G. RK was 37 years old, semi-literate and a painter; G was a housewife and educated up to the eighth standard. Six months after their marriage, G became pregnant, but had an abortion in the third month of pregnancy. Thereafter, the couple waited for four years, but G could not conceive. She consulted private allopathic doctors, who prescribed her some medicines without carrying out any investigation/follow-up. Meanwhile, T advised G to consume the umbilical cord stump. In January 2003, G visited Chennai in order to assist her sister-in-law's delivery. Other women present there also advised her to consume the neonate's cord stump as a remedy for her infertility. After a simple ceremony on the eighth day, G consumed a 1-cm-long dried umbilical cord stump embedded in a banana. She conceived the next month. G opined that this sequence of events (pregnancy immediately following the consumption of stump) suggests the curative role of the cord stump. T recalled that 15 years ago, her neighbor had demonstrated the pro-fertility potential of the umbilical cord stump. Both T and her neighbor believed that the stomach (errai pai) is connected to the uterus (garppa pai), and that the cord had entered the uterus via the stomach, thus inducing pregnancy. In July 2006, during the community posting for undergraduates, a similar practice was reported in Pullichappallam, Tamil Nadu. A local remedy for infertility in this area was consuming the fallen cord stump. In a focus group discussion (FGD), P (a 40-year-old lady) commented, “If conception does not occur within five months of marriage, we wait for an opportunity to give a fallen cord stump to the ‘infertile’ woman. This practiceis common in our family and has been successful on all occasions.” She had recommended this to three of her relatives, one of whom was infertile for five years. In all instances, conception occurred within a few months. None of them took allopathic treatment. The FGD revealed the belief that the cord ‘donor’ can become infertile; hence, the infertile women should consume it without making the donor aware of it. Similar practice exists in Kattupalayam and Vannur areas of Tamil Nadu. A newspaper has reported the practice of consuming the products of the third-stage labor for curing infertility in the villages of Thirumangalam taluk of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu.(1) This practice has been documented in the Chenchu tribes of Nallamalai Hills in Andhra Pradesh.(2) They believed that the umbilical cord produces special fertility juice in the infertile woman. Elsewhere, a similar practice has been reported from primitive cultures of Australia, Africa and Hawaii.(3) This case report brings to light the fact that this practice is not restricted to few families. Reportedly, all known cases have resulted in pregnancy. While we may not share this belief, it highlights the common man's concept about the process of reproduction. Hence, the first step in infertility treatment should be creating awareness about human sexual function and clarify myths associated with infertility since they restrict the afflicted couples from seeking appropriate medical treatment. People's faith in modern medicine should actually improve when infertility treatments become more accessible and affordable. However, if a series of cases such as the abovementioned incidents occur, it may then become necessary to epidemiologically study such interventions.

Luther's Legacy in American Lutheran Women's Bible Study

Abstract: Every year thousands of Lutheran lay women explore the Bible through the Women's Bible Study featured in the denomination's monthly women's magazine. This tradition began with the women's missionary societies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the recruiting of Lutheran writers for year‐long series. In the ELCA the study is published in the magazine Lutheran Woman Today. The authors have been attentive to biblical critical methods, Lutheran theology, and the lives and faith of people in parishes. Participants report that the women's Bible study contributes to fellowship and to their goals of biblical living and deepened relationships with God, their families, and each other.

La religiosidad popular: aspectos antropológicos, pastorales y canónicos

Popular religiosity -also called popular piety, even though the expressions are not exactly synonymous- is a topic which is always current and of great importance in the life of the Church. While on the one hand we have to affirm that the liturgy is certainly the summit and the source of spiritual life, on the other hand popular religiosity is a manifestation of people's faith, is rich in values and should not be underestimated. This article takes as its reference the Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy of the Congregation for Divine Worship and develops the different elements which shape popular religiosity: anthropological aspects, the Christian vales involved and the repercussion which it has on liturgical celebration and pastoral praxis in the life of dioceses and parishes. The end purpose is to seek harmonisation between liturgy and popular religiosity, always subordinating the later to the former; always looking for harmony rather than substitution or confrontation, thus helping pastors to evaluate and co-ordinate these initiatives properly.

Opinion Polls in 2003

On 26 April 2001, Junichiro Koizumi emerged as the new prime minister of Japan, representing the public's desire for economic recovery through fundamental structural change in Japanese politics. More than two years have passed since then, and Japan has seen neither significant economic revival nor major changes in its political and administrative structures. People's expectation and faith in this henjin (“weirdo” as labeled by Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka) prime minister for rescuing Japan's economy has been greatly undermined as Japan's unemployment rate stays high and stock prices low. Japanese banks are performing poorly as usual, and bad loans seem to never go away or decrease in amount. Despite these seemingly critical shortcomings, however, Prime Minister Koizumi and his administration have maintained a high approval rate from the public.

The Essence of Leadership and the Power of Networks: An Interview with Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley (MW): I would refer to the word essence, which in French alsomeans fuel. The question could be asked as, ‘‘What is the fuel in leadership?’’ The real fuel in leadership is understanding and believing in other people. I deŽne a good leader as someone who has great faith in people’s ability and who uses every opportunity to create the means for them to offer their creativity to the organization. The essence of leadership is to inspire people about their own competence and to create an atmosphere of ‘‘we can do that.’’ A good leader is foremost a good teacher—someone who believes in his or her students and helps them to realize their own potential. I do not believe that leaders can be heroes; it is an impossible task for anyone to Žgure out these days.

Steeltown U.S.A: work and memory in Youngstown

Once symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Ohio, and its famous Jeannette Blast Furnace have become key icons in tragic tale of American deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo examine inevitable tension between those discordant visions, which continue to exert great power over Steeltown's citizens as they struggle to redefine their lives. When the was shut down in 1978, 50,000 Youngstown workers lost their jobs, cutting heart out of local economy. Even as community organized a nationally recognized effort to save mills, city was rocked by economic devastation, runaway crime, and mob scandal, problems that persist twenty-five years later. In midst of these struggles Jenny remained standing as a proud symbol of community's glory days, still a dominant force in construction of both individual and collective identities in Youngstown. Focusing on stories and images that both reflect and perpetuate how Youngstown understands itself as a community, Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo have forged a historical and cultural study of relationship between community, memory, work, and conflict. Drawing on written texts, visual images, sculptures, films, songs, and interviews with people who have lived and worked in authors show importance of memory in forming collective identity of a place. Steeltown, U.S.A. is a richly developed portrait of a place, showing how images of Jenny and of Youngstown have been used in national media and connecting these representations to broader public conversation about work and place: Bruce Springsteen's song Youngstown, book Journey to Nowhere, and other pop culture artifacts have helped make Youngstown symbolic epicenter of American deindustrialization. And while many people see need to get over past and on with future, in rushing to erase difficult parts of Youngstown's history they might also forget powerful events that made city so important, such as struggles for economic and social justice that improved lives of steelworkers. This multifaceted study of meaning of work and place in one community pointedly depicts relationships among economic development, media representations, and community life. As we see how people's faith in value of their work dwindled away in their stories can help us understand not only how meaning of work has changed but also why changing meaning of work matters.

Remembering Attack Ads: An Experimental Investigation of Radio

This article seeks to advance our understanding of the influence of attack advertising on the public in two ways. First, we examine whether the content of individuals' memory differs when exposed to positive or attack ads. Critics of attack advertising fear that “negativity” has pernicious effects on the citizenry, ranging from lessening people's faith in the political process to decreasing people's willingness to participate in elections. This article extends this general line of inquiry. How do attacks affect memory? Do they lead people to remember more things about the ads? Do they affect the accuracy of people's memories? Questions about memory are important from an information processing perspective, since the stored information is used to guide and shape behavior. We find that subjects' recall as many things about positive ads as attack ads. However, when taking a closer look at what they recall, it turns out that attack ads yield many more inaccurate memories than do positive ads. We discuss the implications of these findings. The second way this research advances the field is that we employ an experimental design that uses radio ads as our stimulus. Nearly all the work in this field has focused on television. Yet radio serves as an invaluable way for candidates to communicate with voters, especially in nonpresidential elections. We are a multimedia society, and we need to broaden our knowledge of the impact of political ads beyond television, especially if we want to forge a better understanding of how advertising works in state and local elections.