Religious Family Research Articles

“Africa's First Woman Press Photographer”: Mabel Cetu's Photographs in Zonk!

“Africa's First Woman Press Photographer”: Mabel Cetu's Photographs in <i>Zonk!</i>

PENANAMAN NILAI MORAL DAN SIKAP TOLERANSI BAGI KELUARGA BEDA AGAMA

Moral values ​​and tolerance for families of different religions are the foundation in the most important efforts to maintain harmony in the family. Working together in doing good without differentiating the type of religion is a way to increase and strengthen harmony. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that trigger religious differences in the family, to determine the inculcation of moral values ​​in children in different religious families and to determine the tolerance attitude of society in families in which have different religions. This research uses field research, using a qualitative descriptive approach, which is to clearly describe events in the form of moral inculcation and tolerance for families of different religions through the interview process. Factors that trigger religious differences in families due to interfaith marriages and interfaith families due to changing religions. The inculcation of children's moral values ​​in families of different religions includes: religiosity, discipline and morals. The attitude of tolerance in the community applies an attitude of tolerance to families of different religions including: freedom of religion, respect for different religions, and agreeing with religious differences. All types of applications carried out by the community have an attitude of tolerance.

Social Construction: Media, Hijab and Students Identity

The background of this research is to uncover a variety of ways and models of wearing the hijab in Muslim student communities at the University of Lampung. The development of this hijab model developed in accordance with the development of fashion. The use of hijab with a variety of models is motivated by several factors including: understanding, beliefs, friendship and the media they use. From this understanding, the theory used is the theory of social construction from Peter Berger. Understanding is obtained from friends, religious discussions, from efforts to read or study religious books, family environment, or media exposure. The research method uses a qualitative approach with in-depth interviews, interviews with 100 students from 8 faculties at the University of Lampung. The jilbab usage model is generally divided into three categories. The first is a small headscarf (completely covers the head and neck), the second is a medium-sized headscarf (cloth covering to the chest), third is a veil covering the chest to the stomach even more. The jilbab usage model is much influenced by the media they use, for example Instagram or Twitter. The use of the jilbab then settles in the process of community life and then crystallizes into the student's identity.

Rhetorics of Allonormativity: The Case of Asexual Latter-day Saints

ABSTRACT Asexuality describes a range of identities characterized by a lack of attraction toward sexual relationships or activities, and its opposite is allosexuality. In this essay, we offer a rhetorical theorization of allonormativity. For us, allonormativity describes the constitutive practices whereby social structures expect and privilege sexual and romantic attraction and relationships —to the exclusion and erasure of asexual and aromantic people. We then apply the concept to the case of asexual Latter-day Saints. Using a close reading of data from interviews and online posts, we reveal how allonormativity constrains the lives of asexual Latter-day Saints from three sources: religious leadership, families, and asexual Latter-day Saints themselves. We briefly consider asexuals’ rhetorical strategies in response to allonormativity before concluding with a call to denaturalize presumptions of allosexuality in queer and trans communication research, within and beyond contexts of religious communication.

Decisions to Choose COVID-19 Vaccination by Health Care Workers in a Southern California Safety Net Medical Center Vary by Sociodemographic Factors.

Background: Limited information exists regarding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers (HCWs). Our previous survey analyzed the reasons for HCWs’ decisions to accept vaccination, suggesting that a “one-size fits all” approach may not suffice to increase vaccine uptake. Methods: Based on the vaccination acceptance group (acceptor, hesitant, refuser), we examined differences by sociodemographic factors (race/ethnicity, household income, education) from Likert Scale responses to fourteen influences affecting a decision to be vaccinated using the Kruskal–Wallis test and multinomial logistic regression with mutual adjustment for these sociodemographic factors, age, and sex. Results: Non-Hispanic White vaccine acceptors ranked lower confidence in preventing, withstanding, or treating COVID-19, while Non-Hispanic Blacks more highly regarded the motivation of a religious leader, colleague, or family member. Social media was ranked more influential among Non-Hispanic Asians. Acceptors with lower incomes ranked a job requirement influential; conversely, higher income vaccine hesitant HCWs highly rated this reason. More highly educated acceptors ranked being motivated by colleagues, family, and other HCWs higher. Adjustment weakened some but not all the differences between groups. Conclusions: Sociodemographic factors affect HCWs’ decisions to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Our findings may help develop more focused and tailored strategies to improve vaccination acceptance.

MERAWAT INTELEKTUAL DAN KEKELUARGAAN DI BUMI MASENREMPULU DESA PUNDILEMO

Caring for intellectuals and kinship on earth Masenrempulu Pundilemo Village. The purpose of this service is to provide assistance, empower the community in the implementation of religious development and family values ​​in Pundilemo Village. This community service was carried out for 45 days. The service team carried out the preparation of activities in the form of initial actions, namely approaching local residents, village officials and also conducting surveys for approximately a week as an initial step to develop a work program. The method used is the SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis method. The SWOT analysis method is a practical method used to find out the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and obstacles of each problem. This community service activity has succeeded in growing intellectual and family values ​​in Pundilemo Village, especially in the fields of education, religion, and health. In addition, the community's response is also very good even though the implementation of the work program is still not 100% perfect.

Exploring personal and relational motivations and processes of forgiveness in religious families

AbstractObjective and BackgroundWe used qualitative methodology to explore forgiveness motivations and processes in an ethnically, economically, and geographically diverse sample of 198 highly religious Christian, Muslim, and Jewish families in the United States (N = 480). Prior research has identified several significant relational implications and outcomes of forgiveness. However, there is a need for additional research on forgiveness processes and motivations among highly religious families.MethodFamilies were interviewed jointly through a semistructured interview protocol. Analysis was conducted using thematic and team‐based coding procedures.ResultsCore themes included (a) “Why forgive?”: Relational, religious, and spiritual motivations; (b) “What enables state forgiveness?”: Relational, religious, and spiritual processes; and (c) The role and development of trait forgiveness (forgivingness).ConclusionFindings highlight the relational, religious, and spiritual motivations and processes present in forgiveness and the role religious/spiritual beliefs and practices play in those processes. Additionally, findings illustrate participants' value of the virtue of forgivingness and reported religious and relational processes that helped in developing the trait of forgivingness.ImplicationsWe offer several questions that can be used as a starting point for practitioners to work within the worldview of religious clients to empower individuals, couples, and families to forgive.

War against Prohibition: Italians and Booze in New York City, 1920–1933

War against Prohibition: Italians and Booze in New York City, 1920–1933

Sociocultural Drivers of Spirituality in Indian Saints: A Principal Component Analysis

Human health is multidomain. However, the physical component has dominated health research. Spiritual health, the component traditionally considered the pivot for health and wellness has taken a back seat. Exploring its’ different determinants in the traditional preachers will enhance our understanding of them and will be a guide for their use in the common man’s life.&#x0D; Aim: To find out important sociocultural factors/drivers of the spiritual health of Indian Saints.&#x0D; Objectives: To identify the important social and cultural determinants of spirituality in the study group by factor extraction through Principal Component Analysis (PCA).&#x0D; Methodology: 958 connecting Indian Saints who congregated at Kumbh Mela in the holy city of Ujjain in 2016 were randomly selected in equal proportion from different sects(clans). Their sociocultural background and spiritual score were evaluated by a sociocultural questionnaire and SAI (Spiritual Assessment Inventory). The contribution of sociocultural factors to spiritual score was analyzed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and linear regression modeling. Statistical significance was established at p &lt; 0.05.&#x0D; Results: 20 sociocultural factors were evaluated for component loading (factor extraction) and their impact on the spiritual score. The KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure) score of Sampling Adequacy, Bartlett's test of sphericity and Communalities extraction were 0.57, sig. of 0.00 and ≥ 0.4 respectively thereby supporting; factor analysis. On PCA 6 had an eigenvalue &gt; 1. All of these 6 principal components were found maintainable on The Monte Carlo PCA for Parallel Analysis and they together explained 66.20% of the cumulative variance. Their respective taxonomies were emancipation (PC 1), family heritage (PC 2), stimuli (PC 3), faith (PC 4), education (PC 5), and self-hegemony (PC 6). On regression analysis, the four important influencers of spirituality were; participants’ origin from a joint family (p – 0.00), their daily routine for spiritual enhancement (p-0.01), respect for other religions (p-0.00), and self-motivation (p-0.01).&#x0D; Conclusion: Emancipation (freedom from family bondage), the presence of religious family background, a fixed daily routine, belief in all religions, an unremitting drive for spiritual education, and self-hegemony were dominant components that determined spirituality in Indian Saints. Translating these drivers for the benefit of commoners may enrich their overall health and wellness.

Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance

Consumer intention to avoid food waste is determined by various socio-demographic and psychographic/psychological factors. While many of these factors have been well studied, some remain under-researched. This is the case for religious values and family upbringing that may represent strong antecedents of personal norms towards food waste avoidance. This study tests the role of these factors on a sample (n = 566) of consumers in Poland, a society with strong religious traditions and family ties. The results indicate that religious values play an important role in family upbringing which, by influencing personal social and environmental motives, mediates the effect on personal norms to avoid food waste. This suggests that religious leaders should be engaged in the design of food waste prevention campaigns specifically targeting parents. This is to trigger a cross-generational spillover effect whereby family morals on food waste avoidance are transferred from parents to children and reinforced by religious values.

Ramadan Fasting as a Religious Obligation: A Qualitative Study on Opinions and Experiences of Muslim Pregnant Women about Fasting in Turkey.

The aim of this study was to examine opinions and experiences of Muslim pregnant women about Ramadan fasting in Turkey. The study had a descriptive, phenomenological design and included 17 Muslim pregnant women living in Turkey. Content analysis and word cloud analysis were performed. The content analysis revealed two themes. The most frequent words in the word cloud analysis were fasting, pregnancy, Ramadan, fast, religious duty, health, observing a missed fast, relief, concern, baby, thirsty and hungry. The findings of the study showed that religious beliefs, experiences, family and society pressured the pregnant women to keep Ramadan fasts. However, due to feeling worried about their own physical and psychological health and their infants, some of the women did not go on a fast. It can be recommended that pregnant women wanting to keep their fasts should be offered information about possible risks of fasting.

‘My father is Muslim and my mother is Christian: What about me?’ Religious identity and agency within mixed families in Morocco

This article explores not only the narratives of mixed individuals regarding what has been transmitted to them by their parents in terms of religious background, but also their own religious practice and affiliation. More specifically, the article focuses on mixed individuals who were raised in Muslim–Christian practicing families and who have grown up in Morocco. I will argue that despite the constraints of the religious context and the fact that they were raised in an interreligious practicing family, they are nevertheless active agents in the formation of their religious identity. The context in which they lived impacts their daily life, but not their capacity to make their choices in terms of religious identity. They do not always feel free to display their choices socially, face social pressure to conform to the majority group religious norms and/or family expectations, but develop adaptive practices to socially navigate the different social and family contexts.

Evaluating the training needs for an epilepsy education program by assessing the beliefs and attitudes of families with children impacted by epilepsy.

Background: The aftermath of a seizure for a child and their family alongside a lack of accessible epilepsy education programs reinforces a perceived loss of control and anxiety states. A virtual video teaching platform is being developed to allow families to connect with and learn about their child’s epilepsy. The queries and training needs of diverse patient groups must be addressed to ensure the platform’s personalization and success. &#x0D; Objective: We assessed the training needs, beliefs, and attitudes through a questionnaire for families, taking into account epilepsy severity, time of their child’s diagnosis, and religiosity.Methods: Over two months, patients of the Alberta Children Hospital’s Neuroscience outpatient clinic were contacted to complete the survey. We focused on analyzing how families’ beliefs towards the causes, treatment, and manifestations of epilepsy influenced training needs and interest and whether that is correlated with epilepsy severity, time of diagnosis, and religiosity. A one-way ANOVA was conducted.&#x0D; Results: 67 families responded to the survey. Families with a recent initial seizure were more inclined to believe in more environmental and behavioral causes of epilepsy. Those with longer-standing epilepsy believed in more medical causes for epilepsy. More religious families were slightly inclined to believe in prayers and miracles as treatment. All groups presented a high interest in the video topics, with more religious families drawn to the ‘Life with Epilepsy’ module videos.&#x0D; Conclusions: These results will ensure the program design facilitates understanding of epilepsy, leading to expedited social integration, better coping, and reduced mental health comorbidities for all patient groups.

Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer, and Asexual Youth: Differential Impacts of Sexual Orientation, Verbal, Physical, or Sexual Harassment or Assault, Conversion Practices, Family or Household Religiosity, and School Experience.

Purpose: This article examines factors associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in the past 12 months among lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, asexual, or other non-heterosexual identifying youth (LGBQA+). Methods: A national Australian cross-sectional online survey was conducted involving 4370 cisgender LGBQA+ participants aged 14-21 years from September to October 2019. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to examine significant factors associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in the past 12 months. Research ethics approval for the WTI4 study was granted by the La Trobe University Human Research Ethics Committee and the ACON Research Ethics Review Committee. Results: Overall, 56.4% of participants reported suicidal ideation and 8.9% a suicide attempt in the past 12 months. Multivariable regression results show that participants aged younger than 18 years, lesbian (compared with gay) identifying, those living in rural or remote locations (compared with inner city), those reporting any verbal, physical, or sexual harassment or assault based on sexual orientation or gender identity, or who had a religious family or household, or had experienced conversion practices in the past 12 months reported higher levels of suicidal ideation or suicide attempts. Those who reported feeling part of their school reported lower levels of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Conclusion: High levels of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among young LGBQA+ people in Australia highlight a need for the ongoing inclusion of LGBQA+ youth as a priority population for suicide prevention. The findings illustrate key factors associated with a greater risk of suicidality among young LGBQA+ people. These findings can be used to inform the provision of tailored support services, including culturally safe suicide prevention programs and efforts to address stigma, discrimination, and conversion practices.

An over view about Maulana Abdul Haqq’s educational, social and political contributions

Maulana Abd-ul-Haqq was a great and famous Islamic scholar, basically his family was migrated from Afghanistan centuries ago and settled in Akora Khattak (Khyber PakhtunKhwah, Pakistan). He was belonged to a religious family, His father was also a religious scholar. He received his primary education at home and at last visited university of “Darul Uloom Deoband India” for higher education, late after he founded “Darul Uloom Haqqania Akora Khattak, Kp, pakistan” which is one of the best Islamic teaching university among the world, He not only contribute in the education field only but also play a well-known role in the social affairs and in the national politics as well that’s why He reformed various traditions of marriage and grief. He fully opposed the Ahmadiyya’s movement on the floor of the assembly. Here we get an over view about is educational, social and political contributions that shows various fruitful dimensions about his life.

Evaluation of antivaccination movement in Turkey: qualitative reports of family physicians.

In Turkey, childhood vaccination rates are decreasing in the context of increasingly visible antivaccination movements. To evaluate the antivaccination movement based on communication experiences between family physicians and antivaccine parents in Turkey. We conducted 39 face-to-face in-depth interviews with family physicians in Sakarya Province who had experiences of communicating with antivaccine parents during October-December 2019. With the permission of the participants, audio recording was obtained in all interviews except one; these were transcribed verbatim and checked. A thematic approach was used to analyse the data. The most common concern about vaccination was the possible side-effects, followed by the origin of the vaccines, religious concerns and distrust of vaccines. The physicians said they assumed an inquisitive, informative and anxiety-relieving attitude towards antivaccine parents. Parents had various reasons for refusing childhood vaccinations, however, the family physicians used persuasive methods to convince them to accept the vaccinations. Strengthening the communication and persuasive skills of health care professionals regarding vaccination may help increase acceptance of childhood vaccinations.

Humility in family relationships: Exploring how humility influences relationships in religious families.

In this article, we explored how humility influences family relationships in religious families. We used a qualitative methodology and interviewed a religiously, ethnically, and geographically diverse sample of 198 highly religious families (N = 476). Family-level data were collected by using multiple informants through joint interviews with family members. Semistructured interviews regarding how religion influenced family life were conducted in the participants' homes. Interview transcripts were analyzed using qualitative data analysis software, team-based coding, and grounded theory procedures. Findings included four themes: (1) Pride as an obstacle to relational well-being, (2) the influence of religious beliefs on humility, (3) the influence of religious practices on humility, and (4) humility in practice. Together, these themes suggest that humility can be both grounding and empowering for individuals and relationships. Implications and future directions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

The Froman Peace Campaign: Pluralism in Judeo-Islamic Theology and Politics

AbstractDespite intensive diplomatic efforts, achieving peace between the Palestinian and Israeli populations remains out of reach. This study investigates a recent campaign for religious peacebuilding, focusing on the political theology of Rabbi Menachem Froman and his fellow religious peacemakers, family members, and disciples. Froman's position is twofold: First, religion is necessary for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and second, Israeli settlements should not be considered an obstacle to peace, but rather “the fingers of Israel's outstretched hand for peace.” We argue that “the Froman peace campaign” advances pluralism in both Judeo-Islamic theology and politics. It constructs a synthetic theological view incorporating principles and rituals of both religions. Politically, it promotes a plan for two states in one united confederation. By comparing the peace campaign of Rabbi Froman with that of Rabbi Michael Melchior, another well-known peacemaker, this article contributes to a growing literature on the role of theology in religious peacebuilding

Religious Authority and Family Dispute Resolution among Moroccan Muslims in the Netherlands

Abstract The article aims to provide an insight into how ‘ordinary’ Muslims look for workable solutions to family and marital disputes in line with their cultural and religious values. More specifically, it looks into the informal processes of reconciliation (sulh) with the assistance of imams of local mosques, primarily among Muslims with Moroccan roots in the Netherlands. Relevant questions that are addressed are: What types of disputes are settled within the (religious) community? Who are the authorities involved? How do they obtain, claim or create authority? Why do Muslim women and men choose these processes over formal litigation? What do they hope to gain from these processes? And what kind of solutions are offered to disputants?

Spirituality and Children\u2019s Coping with Representation of Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Research with Parents

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the related lockdown measures have had intense negative impacts on the psychological well-being of both adults and children. Among such impacts is a significant increase in mortality salience and changes in how people deal with grief and losses. This qualitative research used semi-structured interviews with 23 Italian parents to draw insights on the impact of the pandemic on children aged 5˗15 years with regard to their representation of death and the eventual role that family spirituality/ religiosity played in helping them understand both the concept of dying and possibly the pandemic itself. From the data analysis, four main thematic areas emerged: “Lockdown experience,” “Fears and worries related to COVID-19,” “Emergence of thoughts on the process of dying,” and “Representation of death and the impact of religious beliefs.” The participants highlighted how stressful the lockdown measures have been for their children and the anxiety that their children have experienced because of fears related to the pandemic. The interviews also surfaced how living in a religious family has contributed significantly to shaping children’s representation and understanding of death and sometimes even helped both the parents and their children to face difficult moments such as those caused by the pandemic.