Matching Messages to Religious Orientations to Promote Volunteerism

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Shoger
Keyword(s):  
Religious Orientations

Personal Religious Orientation and Frankl's Will-To-Meaning in Four Religious Communities

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 50-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Stones
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Life Test ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Religious Orientation Scale ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Purpose In Life Test

Numerous theorists argue that the anomie characteristic of contemporary mass-society results in a lack of meaning and personal identity and that membership of small religious communities serves to relieve, if not eliminate, this existential vacuum. In order to explore this area further, four religious communities in Johannesburg — the Jesus People, the Hare Krishna Devotees, the Maharaj Ji Premies and a Catholic Priest community — were given the Purpose-in-Life test together with its complementary scale (Seeking-of-Noetic- Goals Test) as well as the Religious Orientation Scale. Analysis of the data confirmed the hypotheses that as a function of integration into any one of these groups individuals' lives take on greater meaning and purpose and that the motivation to seek meaning decreases. The results also indicate that members' personal religious orientations become more intrinsic.

Model of Muslim Religious Spirituality: Impact of Muslim Experiential Religiousness on Religious Orientations and Psychological Adjustment among Iranian Muslims

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Nima Ghorbani ◽  
P. J. Watson ◽  
Hamid Reza Gharibi ◽  
Zhuo Job Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
University Students ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Religious Spirituality

Previous research indicates that spirituality expressed in tradition-specific terms may initiate, invigorate, and integrate Muslim religious commitments, suggesting a 3-I Model of Religious Spirituality. In a test of this model, Islamic seminarians, university students, and office workers in Iran ( N = 604) responded to Muslim Experiential Religiousness (MER), Religious Orientation, and mental health scales. The tradition- specific spirituality of MER displayed correlation, moderation, and mediation results with Intrinsic and Extrinsic Personal Religious Orientations that pointed toward initiation, invigoration, and integration effects, respectively. MER also clarified the ambiguous implications of the Extrinsic Social Religious Orientation. These data most generally confirmed the heuristic potential of the 3-I Model.

scholarly journals Comparative Reading of Motherhood Identities in East African and Indonesian Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Stanley Elias
Keyword(s):  
Social Stigma ◽  
Male Child ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
East African ◽  
Physical Trauma ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Reduced Forms

The study comparatively examines the representation of motherhood identities and the trauma of being childless to women in African and Indonesian literary texts namely Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Secret Lives and other Stories, Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth, Ratih Kumala’s Genesis and Iwan Setyawan’s Ibuk. Central to the analysis of this study is the argument that the existing cultural and religious discourses significantly contribute to the ways motherhood identities are construed in the society. Of a particular note, motherhood is argued to be a desired position that every woman wants most and is ready to sacrifice for it. Importantly, marriage, religious orientations and orders of the patriarchy certify motherhood and its related identities in the society. On the other hand, childlessness or failure to bear a male child circumscribe women in reduced forms of their identities and so subjects them to psychological and physical trauma and of course a social stigma.

The Media and the Arts

2007 ◽  
pp. 139-161
Author(s):  
Nadia Malinovich
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Media

This chapter focuses on the expansion of the Jewish press, the development of a lively Jewish art and music scene, and the strengthening of the interfaith movement. It discloses the creation of a wide variety of journals of differing Zionist, literary, and religious orientations that marked an important change in contemporary French Jewish life. It also investigates the journals that served as a vehicle to discuss new developments in the Jewish associational and cultural life of the day and provided a forum to discuss diverse aspects of Jewish culture and history. The chapter discusses the prominence of Jewish artists in the international Ecole de Paris as another important development in Jewish cultural life during the 1920s. It also describes French Jews that formed musical societies and choruses to perform Jewish music, from traditional religious compositions to Yiddish folk songs, in public settings.

The Function of Myths in the Justification of Muslim Extremism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Farid Alatas
Keyword(s):  
Muslim World ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Islamic Tradition

This chapter argues that the prevalence of certain myths in Islamic tradition predispose some Muslims into adopting exclusivist ideas that define their religious orientations in a manner that can be viewed sociologically and even theologically as extremist. By taking the examples of the alleged genocide of the Bani Qurayza Jewish tribe by Prophet Muhammad and the alleged link between a Yemeni Jew to the founding of Shiite Islam, the chapter shows that these myths have led to justification of anti-Semitism, violence against non-Muslims, and sectarianism in the Muslim World. The chapter concludes by calling for a more critical reading of Islamic tradition.

A Search for Mental Health

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Kahoe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
General Position ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Ego Orientation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychological Concepts

Reviews several sets of psychological concepts that reflect the general position that mental health and mental illness are separate dimensions—not just the opposite or absence of one another. The impact of these concepts is that mental illness involves a defensive ego orientation, and mental health involves a growth-related task orientation. The position is related to concepts of conventional morality and some explicit teachings of Christ regarding self-denial and giving one's life for a greater cause. In the review of psychological concepts, S. E. Asch's “task-orientation” is juxtaposed with a “self-orientation” implicit in C. R. Rogers’ theory. F. Herzberg's job factor theory, the concepts of coping and defending, and G. W. Allport's intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientations also depict similar dichotomies of mental health and mental illness. Relationships between theology and psychology in general are discussed.

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