Religion Research Articles

Implications of telework in the mental health of workers in a consulting company in the sector of hydrocarbons

Teleworking has been a novel option for companies, providing advantages in productivity and low costs; however, it has been a chaos to the mental health of staff living situations of distress and depression due to work overload, time management, which has caused affections in their psychological and social area as an individual, being a priority issue of public health. This article aims to analyze the effects of teleworking on the mental health of workers in a consulting company in the hydrocarbon sector in Colombia, with a sample of 30 administrative workers in the management and execution of contracts of Environmental Services and HSE Services in the National territory. Taking a punctual record of the impact of stress and mental health management in their work, a non-experimental type of research of observational transversal cut with descriptive scope was established, taking two types of instruments for its validation, a survey created by the authors that showed medium experience in the use of ICT’s and medium stress causal in the management of information storage tools, and the modified Multidimensional Copyng Inventory (MCI) Scale, obtaining a medium and representative level of use in strategies of Waiting (WT), Religion (REL) and Search for Professional Support (PS), requiring the strengthening of other types of strategies. The research shows the need to potentiate methods aimed at leveling autonomy and productivity with their capacities and skills in formation, harmonizing the space for their family time.

Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South by Barbara E. Mattick

Reviewed by: Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South by Barbara E. Mattick James M. Woods Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South. By Barbara E. Mattick. Washington, DC: Catholic University of Press, 2022, 275pp. $34.95. Barbara Mattick, a woman with a background in public history, has produced a welcome contribution on women religious orders and their impact on black and white pupils, patients, and orphans in the American South. My history of the Catholic Church in the American South from 1513–1900 did not deal directly with this topic and so this book is needed. This work starts when the Sisters of St. Joseph from France arrived in the mainly Catholic community of St. Augustine in 1866 until they affiliated with another order of women religious in 1922. [End Page 98] Her book follows no overall narrative but covers different aspects of their history. The first chapter covers the Irish Sisters of Mercy who came to Florida’s oldest city in 1859 and stayed a decade. The next chapter deals with the coming of the French Sisters of St. Joseph in 1886 and follows their ministry for the next quarter century to white and black students. The third chapter is on the intense religious rivalry between the Catholic sisters and the female Protestant missionary associations for the souls of “black folk” in Florida. The next chapter covers the sisters and their ministry during the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1877, 1888. The next two chapters deal with personnel and provincial changes, including the awkward situation when the sisters were ordered in late 1899 to sever their relationship with the motherhouse in France. The penultimate chapter is on anti-Catholicism and racism in early twentieth century Florida. The final chapter covers the Sisters of St. Joseph in Savannah, Washington, and Augusta until the early 1920s. The book draws upon a rich array of primary sources especially the hundreds of letters in French to the motherhouse in Le Puy, France. Such correspondence provide a rare look at these remarkable women “and their inner thoughts, struggles and hopes and even their sense of humor” (xiv). The work is augmented with pictures of the sisters and their ministry with white and black students in Florida and Georgia. This reviewer found it pleasing that the footnotes were located the bottom of the page. This book highlights areas of nineteenth century religion often overlooked; for example, ecumenism. As Mattick observes, “salvation was only possible through the Roman Catholic Church; Protestants were heretics . . . . The Protestant Missionaries . . . just as adamantly considered Roman Catholics to be lost souls” (82). When in 1913 a Florida bill passed forbidding whites from teaching in black schools, public or private, three sisters of St. Joseph were arrested on April 24, 1916, for violating this law. Two sisters were bonded out but Sister Thomasine Hehir refused and was put back into the convent for running a black Catholic school in St. Augustine. On May 21 a local judge [End Page 99] ordered her released as the law did not apply to private schools. While this was an interesting event, Mattick has three locations for this St. Benedict the Moor school. She once listed it near St. Augustine in Lincolnville, a picture of Sister Thomasine has the school in 1916 as being in St. Augustine, and another locates the school in Ybor City (185, 186, 249). This caveat aside, the Sisters of St. Joseph founded the “first recognized convent school in Florida, the first Roman Catholic white order to minister for freedmen after the Civil War, and the first Catholic orphanage in Florida” (235). Even after the religious order transferred its affiliation after 1922, it continued to minister with black and white students for decades later. With this book being published, it is hoped that their legacy will not be ignored or overlooked. [End Page 100] James M. Woods Georgia Southern University Copyright © 2023 American Catholic Historical Society

Religious Diversity and Equality in Interwar Yugoslavia

This paper explores the relationship between religion and state- and nation-building in interwar Yugoslavia. In the current scholarship, the relationship between religion and nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia has been assessed primarily in terms of its contribution to the Croat-Serbian tension and exacerbating political crisis leading to the collapse of the state (Ekmečić, 1989; Radić, 2000, 2003). This approach continues the historiographical tradition of studying the positive link between religion and national identity in the Balkans, where indeed since the 19th century religion has played an important role in the development of national ideologies and national movements (Jelavich, 1983; Kitromilides, 1994). This articles provides a more detailed exploration of the dynamic behind the religious communities’ shift from initial support of Yugoslavia in 1918 to disenchantment with the Yugoslav idea and withdrawal of support. I argue that the reasons for this shift are closely linked to how Yugoslav authorities approached the question of religious diversity and attempted to secure religious equality in the context of establishing new state structures; and to what assumptions were made about the role and place of religion in relation to both the new state and the Yugoslav nation. The article thus questions the presumption that religion was inevitably a destabilizing factor in the interwar period.

PERDAMAIAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF ISLAM DAN KRISTEN

The existence of Religion is a correction of behavioral problems that substantively cause tension, violence and even damage to the social fabric, or better known as tyranny. There is no religion established itself as a rel igion of violence and it is certain that all religions claim to be a religion of peace. But on the other hand, religion can lead to damage and even mass murder. Therefore, religious messages are ambivalent, whether religion is to solve problems or it is the source of problems. This ambivalence is emphasized with the rise of religious adherents by showing complex faces to interpret. The complex face is inseparable from the adherents of the r eligion itself, both Islam and Christian. Because the realizat ion of religious adherents have the legitimacy of the text (the source of their religious teachings).

DISCURSOS SOBRE A SEXUALIDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA NO BRASIL

Neste artigo, analisamos quatro enunciados brasileiros que circulam em diferentes materialidades discursivas e que têm como objeto a sexualidade. O objetivo é discutir como o sexo é posto em relação com os domínios da saúde, da religião, da política e da família, fazendo derivar uma série de temas. Para tanto, ancoramo-nos nas discussões de Foucault (1999; 2002; 2008; 2019) acerca do discurso como prática e da sexualidade como um dispositivo historicamente construído, para analisar as materialidades enunciativas em sua densidade histórica, pondo-as em um campo associado, ou seja, em uma série de enunciados relacionados. Conclui-se que os dizeres sobre a sexualidade no Brasil contemporâneo são marcados por disputas em torno dos conceitos de família, do uso dos corpos dos sujeitos e do gozo de direitos civis, que vagam pelos campos da saúde, da religião, da intimidade familiar e da política.

The Online Prostitution Act From Legal Sociology Perspective in Indonesia

The practice of online prostitution that is happening right now is believed to be due to the rapid development of information technology. The influence of technology in the cyber world causes prostitution services to be carried out in disguise such as through mi chat. The purpose of this study was to analyze the existence of online prostitution in the corner of sociology law. Through the approach of legal sociology, online prostitution is only a way of peddling the real practice of prostitution that has happened thousands of years ago. Using normative juridical research methods, this study tried to address some of the problems caused by online prostitution in the country. From the standpoint of legal sociology, online prostitution is a social phenomenon accompanied by technological developments and updates that occur due to economic needs. To overcome this, a law is needed in the form of laws that can now be used by the ITE Law, the development of education, especially religion, expanding employment, the renewal of the Criminal Code to the practice of online prostitution and fostering families so as not to fall into online prostitution.

Considering Pluralism Reality in Christian Religious Education

The study aims to consider pluralism reality in Christian religious education. Pluralism in Indonesia is experienced every day by the people in a concrete and close way. On the diversity of cultures, ethnicities, races, languages, groups, customs, religions, and lifestyles, people can learn from one another, thereby enriching one another. We can learn from Islam about obedience in carrying out religious laws, from Buddhism the writer can learn about simplicity is emptying yourself as a servant. In Hinduism, we can learn about self-awareness, from Catholicism, we can learn about submission to church leaders, then from Christianity, we learn about love.

Religion in Political Construction of Modernity: Editorial Introduction

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SALER, B. Conceptualizing religion: immanent anthropologists, transcendent natives, and unbounded categories

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Teologia da Libertação Latino-Americana: Camilo Torres

Despite the importance of the church as a social factor that operates in the dynamics of Latin American societies, it has been little studied by our historians and social scientists. The purpose of this essay (part of a study of these developments in the 1960s) is to examine the context in which the ideas of the revolutionary priest Camilo Torres Restrepo emerge, to analyze his theory and theology of the revolution to understand its continental consequences, and examine some of the questions posed by this phenomenon to the history and sociology of religion.

Pharmaceutical Education in Japan--Past, Present--, and Human Social Pharmacy Education in the Near Future.

In this paper, the foundation of the 74 Japanese pharmacy schools was reviewed. From the early Meiji era until the beginning World War II, 21 schools including Tokyo University were established. After the war, the new four-year university system was introduced from America, and the above 21 schools became universities and 25 universities were newly founded. In 2006, clinical pharmacy was introduced from America, and the six-year undergraduate system began. This system was divided into 2 groups, 1) 6 year system of clinical pharmacy plus 4 years doctor course and 2) 4 years system of pharmaceutical sciences and a master degree lasting 2 years plus a 3 year doctor course. These two systems started in 2006. The students of clinical pharmacy course must take the 22 weeks of clerkships in a community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy. The graduates (8,446) in 2015 March took the National License Examination for pharmacist, and the pass rate was 72.65%. The entrance into pharmacy school is not easy; however, the passing of the National License Examination is more difficult. The aim of pharmacy education should be to foster pharmacists with a deeper understanding of society and with richer humanity for the patient. To achieve this, what needs to be included in the curriculum are the subjects of the human social pharmacy, such as philosophy of pharmacy, ethics, religions, history of pharmacy, pharmaceutical affairs law, economics, management, and social pharmacy. The inclusion of such subjects needs to be implemented in the near future. Of course, the study of pharmaceutical sciences is a life-long endeavor.

RELIGION AS CRITIQUE: ISLAMIC CRITICAL THINKING FROM MECCA TO THE MARKETPLACE By IrfanAhmad. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017 Pp. 270. Paper, $30.

RELIGION AS CRITIQUE: ISLAMIC CRITICAL THINKING FROM MECCA TO THE MARKETPLACE By IrfanAhmad. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017 Pp. 270. Paper, $30.

A Study on Korean Religions from the Viewpoint of Globalogy －Focused on Hong DaeYong(洪大容)’s Dialogue in the Eusan Mountain(醫山問答) and Gaebyeok Religions－

A Study on Korean Religions from the Viewpoint of Globalogy －Focused on Hong DaeYong(洪大容)’s Dialogue in the Eusan Mountain(醫山問答) and Gaebyeok Religions－

Resenha de livro: Making peace with faith: the challenges of religion and peacebuilding


 
 
 GARRED MICHELLE, ABU-NIMER MOHAMMED (2018). Making peace with faith: the challenges of religion and peacebuilding. Lanham: Rowman & Litlefield. 264 pp.
 
 

Influência da espiritualidade nas condutas dos casais durante a gravidez sob a ótica da enfermagem: revisão de literatura

O objetivo é descrever as experiências relacionadas à espiritualidade das mulheres grávidas e seus parceiros sexuais sob a ótica da enfermagem. É delineada uma revisão integrativa de literatura com busca primária de artigos publicados entre 2000 e 2019. Nos resultados, houve a seleção de onze artigos, destes, 55% foram obtidos da base Web of Science (WOS), todos escritos em inglês, 27% dos trabalhos eram de 2019, 64% do continente asiático, 64% de obstetrícia e 55% com gestantes de alto risco. O islamismo representou 45% das religiões encontradas, sendo o Irã e os Estados Unidos com 27% dos estudos. Obteve-se uma categoria principal:“Influência da espiritualidade nas condutas dos casais durante a gravidez” e doze subcategorias. Perceberam-se atitudes positivas do casal relacionadas com a espiritualidade. Muitas mulheres mencionaram a confiança e o apoio divino para o parto e nascimento, também estavam preocupadas com o feto e faziam renúncias para que eles ficassem bem. Em muitos estudos os homens foram prestativos e atenciosos para com a gestante e bebê e queriam estar informados sobre a saúde dos dois, em todos os estudos os homens se mostraram protetores e esforçados, vários tiveram atitudes ou sentimentos positivos ligados a espiritualidade.O enfermeiro foi identificado como um profissional que apoia e fornece informações aos pacientes, entretanto, não foi visto como um provedor de suporte espiritual para o casal grávido. Como conclusão, percebe-se a importância da elaboração de novas pesquisas sobre a espiritualidade das gestantes e seus parceiros para a enfermagem.

A qualitative study of psychological support needs of family caregivers of hospitalized Lassa fever patients during an outbreak in an endemic state in Nigeria

The study assessed the emotional reactions and perceptions of stigmatization among family caregivers of Lassa fever patients. Six focus group discussions were held among 48 purposively selected and consenting family caregivers in a Lassa fever treatment facility in South-South Nigeria during an outbreak. An interview guide structured to elicit views and perceptions on Lassa fever, reactions to the news of a positive result stigma, sources of emotional and social support was used for data collection. Data were transcribed, coded, and analyzed along thematic areas. Awareness of Lassa fever was high among the participants. Reactions to a positive test result included emotions of panic, denial, anxiety, and fear. Some respondents expressed their unwillingness to disclose a positive test result; some felt Lassa fever was stigmatized in the community and by healthcare workers. Majority turned to religion as a source of emotional support. Family caregivers of Lassa fever patients experienced varied emotional reactions upon receipt of the news of a positive test result. Some caregivers had been stigmatized by health workers or feared stigmatization at community level. Psychosocial support was obtained from religion and emotional support from survivors and isolation ward healthcare workers. Community health education should be sustained to avoid stigmatization of victims. Pre- and post-test counselling, access to relevant information and psychosocial support should be made available family care givers. Key words: Fear, Lassa fever, stigma.

O processo de identificação sexual na adolescência: um estudo qualitativo no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Objetivo: analisar como adolescentes percebem o processo de identificação/definição da orientação do desejo sexual. Metodologia: estudo de abordagem qualitativa por meio de grupos focais com estudantes do ensino médio de escolas pública e privada. Foram realizados 5 grupos focais totalizando 59 estudantes, de 13 a 18 anos, sendo 37 do sexo feminino e 22 do masculino. As reuniões foram gravadas e transcritas e os dados submetidos à análise de natureza compreensiva com auxílio do software WebQDA. Resultados: os dados foram classificados em duas categorias de identificação/definição da orientação sexual: uma resultante de influências da família, sociedade, mídia e religião; e outra estabelecida pela natureza e experimentação. Na primeira há o reconhecimento dos condicionantes de gênero desde tenra idade e a opressão heteronormativa da sociedade. Na segunda categoria prevaleceu o entendimento de que a atração sexual surge com a puberdade e, na visão preponderante das moças, há necessidade de testar para se ter certeza da orientação do desejo, que pode mudar em qualquer época da vida, demonstrando maior fluidez da identidade sexual no sexo feminino. Conclusão: o processo de identificação e definição da orientação sexual é marcado pela heteronormatividade que demonstra constranger as possibilidades de expressão da sexualidade.

Pemberdayaan Anak-Anak Usia SD dalam Bidang Keagamaan sebagai Penunjang Kegiatan Sehari-Hari Berbasis Masjid di Desa Bandorasa Wetan Kecamatan Cilimus Kabupaten Kuningan

Efforts to empower mosques are as centers for religious activities, education and social services. But in reality, the function of a mosque with a worldly dimension does not have a maximum role in the development of the Islamic ummah and civilization. In order to preserve and develop a mosque, innovative thoughts and ideas are needed as well as the willingness of all parties, especially its managers. The main problem of this research is how to empower elementary school children in the field of mosque-based religion in Bandorasa Wetan Village, Cilimus District, Kuningan Regency. The type of research used in this thesis is qualitative research, with the aim of knowing the empowerment of elementary school children in the field of mosque-based religion in Bandorasa Wetan Village, Cilimus District, Kuningan Regency by making previous observations and collecting data as well as interviews and documentation. The results of this study explain that community empowerment at the Great Mosque of Al-Huda, Bandorasa Wetan Village is able to foster and educate the community and children through mosque committee programs developed through the religious field, namely sunset recitation culture, congregational prayer movements, socio-religious competitions. and parenting activities. The research implication is for the general chairman of the great mosque al-Huda, Cilimus District along with representatives and members of the board in maintaining the performance that has been done and developing education, religious, social activities, especially for elementary school age children as an effort to discipline themselves and teaches the virtues of the mosque.
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 Upaya memberdayakan masjid adalah sebagai pusat kegiatan keagamaan, pendidikan dan layanan sosial. Namun dalam kenyataannya, fungsi masjid yang berdimensi duniawiyah kurang memiliki peran yang maksimal dalam pembangunan umat dan peradaban Islam. Dalam rangka untuk melestarikan dan mengembangkan masjid kiranya diperlukan pemikiran dan gagasan inovatif dan sekaligus kemauan semua pihak terutama para pengelolanya. Pokok permasalahan penelitian ini adalah bagaimana pemberdayaan anak-anak usia SD dalam bidang keagamaan berbasis masjid di Desa Bandorasa Wetan Kecamatan Cilimus Kabupaten Kuningan. Jenis Penelitian yang digunakan dalam skripsi ini adalah penelitian kualitatif, dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui pemberdayaan anak-anak usia SD dalam bidang keagamaan berbasis masjid di Desa Bandorasa Wetan Kecamatan Cilimus Kabupaten Kuningan dengan cara melakukan observasi sebelumnya dan mengumpulkan data serta wawancara dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian ini menjelaskan bahwa pemberdayaan masyarakat di Masjid Besar Al-Huda Desa Bandorasa Wetan mampu membina dan mendidik masyarakat dan anak-anak melalui program-program panitia masjid yang dikembangkan melalui bidang keagamaan yaitu budaya magrib mengaji, gerakan solat berjama’ah, lomba social keagamaan dan kegiatan parenting. Implikasi penelitian adalah kepada ketua umum masjid besar al-Huda Kecamatan Cilimus beserta dengan wakil dan anggota-anggota pengurus dalam mempertahankan kinerja-kinerja yang telah dilakukan dan mengembangkan edukasi, kegiatan keagamaan, sosial, khususnya untuk anak-anak usia SD sebagai upaya pendisiplinan diri dan mengajarkan muatan keutamaan masjid.

Religion Around Mary Shelley, by Jennifer L. Airey

Religion Around Mary Shelley, by Jennifer L. Airey

A comparative assessment of the spiritual health behaviors of the Iranian muslim in the COVID-19 pandemic with religious evidence

Background and Aim: Based on religious beliefs, the Iranian Muslim follow the lifestyle of the Prophet and the Imams The aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate the spiritual health behaviors of the Iranian Muslim in the COVID-19 pandemic with religious evidence Methods: This comparative study was conducted in the period from March 1, 2020, to the end of May 2020 in Tehran, Iran Without intervening in the research samples, the researchers observed, recorded, examined and compared their individual and social behaviors with religious evidence Data collection methods were semi-structured interviews, observation, taking notes from published papers, website surveys and social networks Data were analyzed by conventional content analysis Results: Religious beliefs, as a moral motivating factor, had a positive effect on the health behaviors and spiritual health of people in the biological crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic Community adherence to health standards, spiritual self-care, home care, and family participation in health services at prevention levels were consistent with scientific findings and religious evidence Muslim people avoided doing things that endangered their own health or the health of others Conclusion: The adaptation of health behaviors of the research samples with religious evidence shows the effect of adherence to Islamic rules on the individual and social behaviors of Iranian Muslims, which can be recommended for followers of other Abrahamic religions © 2020 Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences All rights reserved