scholarly journals 177 Religious Participation and Health in a Changing Ireland. A Qualitative Exploration of Women Aged 65 and Over

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii17-iii65
Author(s):  
Joanna Orr ◽  
Christine McGarrigle ◽  
Rose Anne Kenny ◽  
Linda Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The North ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

Abstract Background The previous decades have seen tangible changes in Ireland’s religious landscape. Religion has been investigated as an important factor in wellbeing for many populations, including those aged 65 and over. Women in this age group in particular have higher religiosity while also being more likely to face challenges such as widowhood and demanding caring roles. We explored the ways in which women relate their religious belief, practice and participation to their wellbeing in later life within the Irish context. Methods A qualitative research design was employed. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with women aged 65 and over (n=11), who self-identified as religious. Women were sampled from church congregations in the North Dublin area. Interviews were recorded and transcribed. Thematic analysis was carried out using NVivo. Women were invited to speak on their lifecourse religious trajectories, relationships, and health, using a flexible interview instrument. Both predetermined and emerging themes were explored. Results Participants were aged 67 to 89, and were Catholic-affiliated (n=10) and Church of Ireland-affiliated (n=1). The participants described a range of religious identities, and these coloured their strategies for facing the changing role of the church in Irish society. Church abuse scandals were discussed unprompted by the majority of participants. Apprehension regarding the future of the church was common, as was concern for the religious identities and practices of younger generations within their families. Nevertheless, the majority of participants outlined ways in which religious practice, in particular, was conducive to their wellbeing. Conclusion Religious feeling, identity and practice was not homogenous in the sample. Feelings of uncertainty around the future were common, and participants employed a range of strategies to cope with these. The study is limited in how generalisation can be made, but provides insight into some of the mechanisms that can link, both positively and negatively, health and religiosity.

scholarly journals Gemeentevergadering as eiesoortige verskynsel binne die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika: ’n Kerkhistoriese en kerkregtelike ondersoek

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Schoeman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Church Polity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emergency Measure ◽  
The Church

Parish meeting as a distinctive manifestation within the NHKA: A church historical and a church polity investigationThe parish meeting as a distinctive manifestation within the Neder-duitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika also had a distinctive form of development, a development that spanned the period from the national gathering on 8 February 1837 until the acceptance of a new church ordinance in 1997. It first served as an emergency measure during which the future existence of the NHKA was discussed and ensured by the gathering of the faithful. Systematically, from the perspective of church polity, the parish meeting achieved a basis that was also accountable in terms of the church ordinance. The parish meeting forms part of the Hervormde Kerk’s religious practice, that is a normal manifestation of the Presbyterian-synodical Church concept that is respected in the NHKA.

A New Look at the Reformation: Aristocratic Women and Nunneries, 1450–1540

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

Ever since the first flowering of scholarship on women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, convents have occupied a central place in historians' estimate of the position of women in medieval and early modern Europe. In 1910, Emily James Putnam, the future dean and president of Barnard College, wrote enthusiastically in The Lady, her path-breaking study of medieval and renaissance aristocratic women, “No institution in Europe has ever won for the lady the freedom of development that she enjoyed in the convent in the early days. The modern college for women only feebly reproduces it.” In equally pioneering works published in the same period, both Lena Eckenstein and Eileen Power recognized the significance of the nunnery in providing a socially acceptable place for independent single women.Many contemporary historians share this positive view of convents. In Becoming Visible, one of the most widely read surveys of European women's history, for example, William Monter wrote approvingly of convents as “socially prestigious communities of unmarried women.” Similarly, Jane Douglass praised nunneries for their importance in providing women with the only “visible, official role” allotted to them in the church, while Merry Wiesner, sharing Eckenstein and Power's perspective, has observed that, unlike other women, nuns were “used to expressing themselves on religious matters and thinking of themselves as members of a spiritual group. In her recently published study of early modern Seville, to give a final example, Mary Perry criticized the assumption that nuns were oppressed by the patriarchal order that controlled their institutions; instead, she emphasized the ways in which religious women “empowered themselves through community, chastity, enclosure and mystical experiences.”

Ardour and Order: Can the Bonds of Affection Survive in the Anglican Communion?

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-293
Author(s):  
Gregory K Cameron
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
The North ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Listening Process ◽  
American Churches ◽  
The Church

In the life of the Anglican Communion today, an approach which expresses ‘ardour’, a response to the Gospel which tends towards freedom from institutional restraint, is favoured over an approach of ‘order’, which sees the regulation of the life of the church as itself a witness to the ordered will of God. There is both an ‘ardour of the left’, which seeks to loosen the restrictions of canon law to allow a greater ‘inclusiveness’, and an ‘ardour of the right’, which is prepared to override traditional understandings of jurisdiction in the defence of ‘orthodoxy’. The First Epistle to Clement bears witness to an ancient tradition of respect for order in the life of the church. The ‘Windsor Lambeth Process’ in the Anglican Communion – as developed by the Primates' Meeting at Dromantine in 2006, and affirmed at their meeting in 2007 at Dar es Salaam – furthers just such an ordered approach to the life of the Communion, by its requests to the North American Churches through due process, by the development of mechanisms to address questions of alternative episcopal oversight, by the Listening Process to address the moral questions under debate, and by the process to draft and adopt an Anglican Covenant. These initiatives are all intended to strengthen ‘the bonds of affection’, and to secure the future of the Anglican Communion as an international family of Churches.

scholarly journals Opportunities for tourism recovery and development during and after COVID-19

Tourism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-449
Author(s):  
Sanda Čorak ◽  
Snježana Boranić Živoder ◽  
Zrinka Marušić
Keyword(s):  
Recovery Phase ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Future

For many years, tourism scholars have been investigating tourism development issues and disseminating their research results through papers published in academic journals. Although there is evidence that their viewpoints are in discrepancy with the viewpoints of tourism practitioners, these inconsistencies were rarely investigated and juxtaposed. As the global health pandemic caused by COVID-19 stopped travel and tourism all over the world, it created time for both groups of tourism experts to reflect on the various opportunities and challenges that the tourism sector will face in the future. Using the qualitative research design, the authors had the chance to collect, analyse and discuss the views of tourism experts on the recovery phase and possible changes to tourism in Croatia. Data was obtained through semi structured interviews of tourism practitioners from public and private sectors, and through literary review of published opinion papers by international scholars. The aim of the research was focused on the comparison of their views on the short-term recovery of tourism, as well as the long-term possibilities to transform the sector towards a more sustainable and more inclusive sector that is able to utilize the regional competitive advantages in the best possible way. The research results revealed more similarities regarding the attitudes on the recovery during short-term period, as opposed to more dissimilarity on the long-term future of tourism in Croatia. According to the research results, the future of tourism would benefit from the experience and knowledge of both groups combined – practitioners and scholars.

scholarly journals Kuźnia charakteru, korzenie świętości – wieś Zuzela, miejsce urodzenia i pierwszych lat życia Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (4 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Tomasz Rokosz ◽  
Radosław Wileński
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

The authors focus on the analysis of Stefan Wyszyński’s childhood – the years 1901-1910, spent in the village of Zuzela. They reconstruct the place of his birth and the first years of his life as a unique place in the life of the future Primate of Poland, where he experienced the benefits of having a full family – maternal and paternal love. They influenced his later life choices, so important for the fate of the Church in Poland. In retrospect, Zuzela appears as a kind of lost paradise, especially in the context of his later move to Andrzejewo, where his mother died soon – he was only nine at this time. The article also describes contemporary initiatives undertaken to commemorate the Primate of the Millennium. The sketch uses both published materials and sources developed during the field research. For the purpose of the article, interview were made with Fr. Jerzy Krysztopa, the pastor of Zuzela, and Andrzej Karp, a relative of Wyszyński’s mother.

A.I. Solzhenitsyn Apropos of Russia’s Future: Specific Outlook Features Depending on Different Historical Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 327-334
Author(s):  
Inga V. Zheltikova ◽  
Elena I. Khokhlova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pessimistic Attitude ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Images Of The Future ◽  
The Church

The article considers the dependence of the images of future on the socio-cultural context of their formation. Comparison of the images of the future found in A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s works of various years reveals his generally pessimistic attitude to the future in the situation of social stability and moderate optimism in times of society destabilization. At the same time, the author's images of the future both in the seventies and the nineties of the last century demonstrate the mismatch of social expectations and reality that was generally typical for the images of the future. According to the authors of the present article, Solzhenitsyn’s ideas that the revival of spirituality could serve as the basis for the development of economy, that the influence of the Church on the process of socio-economic development would grow, and that the political situation strongly depends on the personal qualities of the leader, are unjustified. Nevertheless, such ideas are still present in many images of the future of Russia, including contemporary ones.

On Riccia marginata and related species (Ricciaceae, Marchantiophyta)

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 298-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Potemkin ◽  
T. Ahti
Keyword(s):  
Related Species ◽  
Lake Ladoga ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
Molecular Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Town

Riccia marginata Lindb. was described by S. O. Lindberg (1877) from the outskirts of the town of Sortavala near the north shore of Lake Ladoga, Republic of Karelia, Russia. The species has been forgotten in most recent liverwort accounts of Europe, including Russia. Lectotypification of R. marginata is provided. R. marginata shares most characters with R. beyrichiana Hampe ex Lehm. It differs from “typical” plants of R. beyrichiana in having smaller spores, with ± distinctly finely areolate to roughly papillose proximal surfaces and a narrower and shorter thallus, as well as in scarcity or absence of marginal hairs. It may represent continental populations of the suboceanic-submediterranean R. beyrichiana, known in Russia from the Leningrad Region and Karelia only. The variability of spore surfaces in R. beyrichiana is discussed and illustrated by SEM images. A comparison with the spores of R. bifurca Hoffm. is provided. The question how distinct R. marginata is from R. beyrichiana needs to be clarified by molecular studies in the future, when adequate material is available. R. marginata is for the time being, provisionally, included in R. beyrichiana.

A general practice provider federation in a mixed health economy in England: a case study investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. bjgp18X696929
Author(s):  
Jill Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The North ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
The Impact

BackgroundThere is an emerging debate that general practice in its current format is out-dated and there is a requirement to move to a federated model of provision where groups of Practices come together. The emergence of federations has developed over the past 5 years but the factors that influence how federations develop and the impact of this new model is an under researched area.AimThe study explored the rationale around why a group of independent GP practices opted to pursue an alternative business venture and the benefits that this strategy offered.MethodA single organisational case study of a federation in the North of England was conducted between 2011–2016. Mixed methods data collection included individual and group semi-structured interviews and quantitative surveys.ResultsFederations promote collaborative working, relying on strategic coherence of multiple individual GP practices through a shared vision and common purpose. Findings revealed many complexities in implementing a common strategy across multiple independent businesses. The ability of the federation to gain legitimacy was two dimensional – externally and internally. The venture had mixed successes, but their approach to quality improvement proved innovative and demonstrated outcomes on a population basis. The study identified significant pressures that practices were experiencing and the need to seek alternative ways of working but there was no shared vision or inclination to relinquish individual practice autonomy.ConclusionOrganisational development support is critical to reform General Practice. Whether central funding through the GP Five Year Forward View will achieve the scale of change required is yet to be evidenced.

Triumph of the Human Spirit

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Human History ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The Future

This chapter is a transcript of Haq’s address to the North South Roundtable of 1992, where he identifies five critical challenges for the global economy for the future. If addressed properly, these can change the course of human history. He stresses on the need for redefining security to include security for people, not just of land or territories; to redefine the existing models of development to include ‘sustainable human development’; to find a more pragmatic balance between market efficiency and social compassion; to forge a new partnership between the North and the South to address issues of inequality; and the need to think on new patterns of governance for the next decade.

Procurement Analytics: Enabling Data Architectures in the Age of Big Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Goul ◽  
T. S. Raghu ◽  
Ziru Li
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Data Space ◽  
Prescriptive Analytics ◽  
Data Architecture ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
Area Data

As procurement organizations increasingly move from a cost-and-efficiency emphasis to a profit-and-growth emphasis, flexible data architecture will become an integral part of a procurement analytics strategy. It is therefore imperative for procurement leaders to understand and address digitization trends in supply chains and to develop strategies to create robust data architecture and analytics strategies for the future. This chapter assesses and examines the ways companies can organize their procurement data architectures in the big data space to mitigate current limitations and to lay foundations for the discovery of new insights. It sets out to understand and define the levels of maturity in procurement organizations as they pertain to the capture, curation, exploitation, and management of procurement data. The chapter then develops a framework for articulating the value proposition of moving between maturity levels and examines what the future entails for companies with mature data architectures. In addition to surveying the practitioner and academic research literature on procurement data analytics, the chapter presents detailed and structured interviews with over fifteen procurement experts from companies around the globe. The chapter finds several important and useful strategies that have helped procurement organizations design strategic roadmaps for the development of robust data architectures. It then further identifies four archetype procurement area data architecture contexts. In addition, this chapter details exemplary high-level mature data architecture for each archetype and examines the critical assumptions underlying each one. Data architectures built for the future need a design approach that supports both descriptive and real-time, prescriptive analytics.

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