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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Branimir Margetic, Tina Peraica, Kristina Stojanovic, Dragutin Ivanec
Summary: This study examined the association between spiritual quality of life, spiritual coping, emotional distress, and personality during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The results demonstrated complex relationships between different aspects of spirituality/religiosity with personality and emotional outcomes, suggesting that distress motivates the engagement of spiritual coping in times of disaster.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Magdalena Linke, Konrad S. Jankowski
Summary: The study revealed a correlation between the intensity of religious beliefs and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across different countries, especially the declared attendance at religious services being associated with an increase in cases and deaths. This relationship persisted in the long term and extended from external religious practices to internal beliefs as well.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Peter O. Kearns, James M. Tyler
Summary: Awe is more strongly related to certain aspects of religious psychology, such as communal orientations and seeking new experiences, which are more compatible with spirituality and communal religious motivations. The studies found that dispositional awe is more strongly related to spirituality, while both spirituality and religiosity are equally significant predictors of state awe. Communal religious motives are also more strongly related to dispositional and state awe than individual religious motivations.
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
(2022)
Article
Religion
Joshua R. Sijuwade
Summary: This article provides an explication of the doctrine of the monarchy of the Father within the framework provided by Karen Bennett, offering a further clarification of its central elements and addressing an important objection against it.
Article
Religion
Lucia Ludvigh Cintulova, Zuzana Budayova, Jerzy Rottermund
Summary: The study shows that alcohol consumption has increased during the pandemic, especially in domestic settings, leading to an increase in domestic violence. The drinking habits of young people and older adults have increased, particularly in the past two years.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
M. Beatriz Fernandez, Javiera Rosell
Summary: The study found that organizational religiosity and intrinsic religiosity have a direct impact on depressive and anxious symptomatology in Chilean older people, while non-organizational religiosity is not associated with any outcomes.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Patty Van Cappellen, Stephanie Cassidy, Ruixi Zhang
Summary: Religious practices involve embodied body postures that express and create religious experiences. Different denominations and individual differences are associated with distinct bodily postures and affective experiences.
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
(2023)
Article
Religion
Libusa Radkova, Lucia Ludvigh Cintulova, Sabina Bredova, Zuzana Budayova
Summary: The research aims to analyze the risk factors affecting the mental well-being of volunteers during humanitarian aid and crisis situations on the Slovakian-Ukrainian border. The results indicate that there is a relationship between the quality of mental well-being and the impact of the crisis situation, with high levels of exhaustion being associated with the volunteering environment and volunteer management. On the other hand, supportive relationships and mental flexibility among volunteers can reduce depersonalization.
Article
Religion
Panu Pihkala
Summary: This article examines the challenge of eco-anxiety in pastoral care, discussing various forms of eco-anxiety and the role of caregivers. It also explores the political nature of ecological issues and the implications for pastoral care. The article concludes by suggesting possibilities and resources for addressing eco-anxiety in pastoral care.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Syazwan Nazri Amir, Norsham Juliana, Sahar Azmani, Izuddin Fahmy Abu, Abd Hafiz Qayyum Abd Talib, Farahin Abdullah, Intan Zulaikha Salehuddin, Nur Islami Mohd Fahmi Teng, Nur Azma Amin, Nor Amira Syahira Mohd Azmi, Nur Adilah Shuhada Abd Aziz
Summary: This study compared elderly people engaging in different types of religious activities and found that those participating in religious activities had significantly higher quality of life and cognitive function scores, highlighting the importance of religious activities for healthy aging in the elderly.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Religion
Daniel J. McKaughan, Daniel Howard-Snyder
Summary: This article explores the definitions of faith and faithfulness and their relationship. The authors argue that faith and faithfulness are distinct but complementary concepts, both involving conative and/or affective elements. In contrast, Jonathan Kvanvig considers faith to be a disposition to act in service of an ideal in the face of difficulty. However, his view leads to some puzzling claims about the relationship between faith and faithfulness.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Ciro De Vincenzo, Flavia Serio, Anita Franceschi, Simone Barbagallo, Adriano Zamperini
Summary: This article outlines the results of a three-month-long community letter-writing and letter-sharing project called Viral Epistolary (VE), which connected thousands of people through digital letters during the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns in Italy. The research adopts a psychosocial perspective on spirituality and explores the process of meaning-making during lockdown. The results reveal a three-part process of collapsing, self-distancing, and transcending, through which respondents rearranged themselves according to the new social reality brought by the pandemic.
PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nooshin Salmany Azar, Moloud Radfar, Rahim Baghaei
Summary: This study explored the spirituality in self-care among stroke survivors in northwest Iran and found that spirituality can increase motivation for self-care and adaptation, reduce stress, and help patients patiently manage their diseases.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Sociology
Daniel Winchester, Michal Pagis
Summary: This paper explores the significance of embodied, sensory dimensions in religious practice, specifically focusing on somatic inversions. It argues that these cultivated experiences enable attributions of religious significance and enhance engagement with purportedly religious phenomena. The empirical material from studies on Eastern Orthodox fasting and Theravada Buddhist meditation practices is used to support the argument.
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Christopher E. M. Lloyd, Maxinne C. Panagopoulos
Summary: Mental illness in evangelical Christian communities is often stigmatized and attributed to demonic possession, lack of faith, personal sin, or other negative spiritual influences. This study explores perceptions of self-harm within these communities and finds that most stories depict spiritual causes of mental illness, leading to stigma and social displacement for the individuals. However, stories that integrate relational care and spiritual resources often lead to recovery.
PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Religion
Vladimir Thurzo
Summary: Transhumanism aims to eliminate suffering and death, but ultimately leads to dehumanization. However, suffering and death are inevitable aspects of human life that have the potential to be transformed into good and hold meaning.
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
William Young
Summary: This paper examines the impact of AI and virtual reality innovations on the traditional pastoral care delivery, including the possibilities of human care providers interacting directly with clients and care provided by digital systems. While automated pastoral carebots are currently unable to provide pastoral care, technological advancements may force religious communities to address the potential for automating relationships in ministry.
THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Thomas G. Plante
Summary: The Examen is a 500-year-old end-of-day prayer developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, which can be used as a spiritually focused or secular intervention strategy. Adapting the Examen as a cognitive behavioral psychotherapy intervention is easy and may be a valuable tool for clinicians interested in integrating spiritually based approaches in their work.
PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Hunter B. Harwood, M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, Keith J. Edwards, Peter C. Hill
Summary: This qualitative study examined how Catholics perceive and experience divine grace. The participants view God's divine grace as a tangible gift despite being undeserved, which is continuously offered. Believers interact with God's grace in various powerful ways, making it an embodied aspect of religious life.
PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jan Domaradzki
Summary: This study explores the lived experiences of spiritual care practitioners (SCP) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. The findings suggest that although the pandemic has affected the provision of spiritual care, it has also amplified its importance and visibility. However, SCP are still neglected and should be further recognized and integrated into the healthcare system.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
