scholarly journals Decoupling African Traditional Religion and Culture from the Family Life of Africans: Calculated Steps in Disguise

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Boakye
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
African Traditional Religion ◽  
The Masses ◽  
African Families

Even though African Traditional Religion and Cultural family life seem to have been detached from the indigenous Africans, with many reasons accounting for such a detach, the attempts made by the new wave of Christianity is paramount, under the cloak of salvation and better life. The paper focuses on the steps taken by Pentecostal-Charismatics in Africa to decouple African Traditional Religion and Culture from the family life of Africans in a disguised manner. The paper begins with the retrospection of African Traditional Religion as the religion with belief of the forefathers concerning the existence of the Supreme Being, divinities, Spirit beings, Ancestors, and mysterious powers, good and evil and the afterlife. It then walks readers through the encounter between Christianity and ATR and come out that Christianity from its earliest history has maintained a negative attitude toward ATR. The paper again explores that the traditional understanding of the African family system is portrayed in the common believe system and the functions of the family com-ponents. Again, the paper further unravels decoupling measures such as reaching the masses for audience, demonization of African the world of the spirit, demonization of African elders, pastors as-suming the traditional position of elders of African families are the factors that are being taken to ensure the taking away of African traditional religious and family life from Africans. The paper again discusses the adverse effects of these decoupling factors on Africans. The paper concludes that Traditional African family patterns are slowly but progressively being altered as a result of the process of the decoupling strategies.

African Traditional Religion and Trans-Saharan Migration from Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Seth Tweneboah ◽  
Edmond Akwasi Agyeman
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Livelihood Strategy ◽  
East Region ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Youth Migration ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
African Traditional Religion

Abstract This paper interrogates an unexamined component of the religion-migration nexus in Ghana. Using African Traditional Religion as a case in point, the paper examines the function shrines play in sustaining youth migration to Libya and across the Mediterranean to Europe. The paper relies on interviews and fieldtrips to migrant sending communities in the Nkoranza area of the Bono East region of central Ghana. The paper gives an account of the daily realities of prospective migrants, returnees and their families. Among other key findings, it is shown that there is an intricate connection between youth migration, the family system and the deities in sustaining the trans-Saharan migration. This migration, we observe, has become a livelihood strategy, the perpetuation of which reassures the survival of not only the people, but their gods as well.

Understanding Family Role Reallocation following a Death: A Theoretical Framework

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Vess ◽  
John Moreland ◽  
Andrew I. Schwebel
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
The Family ◽  
Developmental Role ◽  
Role Allocation

Families in which a parent has died will show a variety of reactions and recovery patterns. This article examines several factors which contribute to this variance. Within the framework of a developmental role analysis of the family system, the influence of the stage of the family life cycle, the roles of the deceased, previous patterns of role allocation, and the type of death are discussed. It is suggested that “person oriented” families, characterized by achieved roles, open communication, and flexible power structures, will more effectively reallocate family roles following the death of a spouse/parent. On contrast, “position oriented” families, characterized by ascribed roles, closed communication, and relatively inflexible power structures, will be too dependent on cultural norms and will lack the role-reallocating mechanisms necessary to ensure adequate family functioning following such a death.

Understanding Continuities and Changes in Irish Marriage: Putting Women Centre Stage

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family System ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family

Contemporary changes and continuities in marriage and family life can be understood by focusing on women. Five main patterns may make sense of these phenomena: women's continued identification with and absorption within the family system; negotiation within marriage; a feminised conception of love; an attempt to transform the structural and cultural parameters of marriage and family life; and an uncoupling of the traditional sequence of marriage, sexual activity and procreation. These patterns are not mutually exclusive, but may be differentially adopted by women at different life-stages and from different social classes. It is argued that women are involved in these various responses in an attempt to deal with the reality of the institutional structure of marriage within a social and cultural context which is not always responsive to their needs and interests.

The family in the view of Israeli adolescents in foster care

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-221
Author(s):  
Michal Mahat-Shamir ◽  
Bilha Davidson Arad ◽  
Guy Shilo ◽  
Ronit Adler ◽  
Ronit D Leichtentritt
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Family System ◽  
Genetic System ◽  
Social Expectation ◽  
Biological Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Summary This qualitative study explores the unique views about the family system held by adolescents who have spent years in foster care in Israel. This inductive study is among the few to address the unheard views held, and the salient challenges faced, by adolescents who have not grown up in their biological parents’ home, with a focus on their view of the family. Findings Participants’ demonstrated conflicting, polarizing perceptions of the family: (a) family is a genetic system: blood is thicker than water; (b) the family system is constructed and limited by terminology; and (c) communication is essential to family life. Applications While the first two themes highlighted the participants’ family of origin as their “true family” the last theme emphasized on the foster family as their “true” family system. Synthesis between these views could not be achieved as informants embraced the social expectation perceiving the family as one. Raising social and professional awareness about the difficulties these young people face partly because of an exclusive social view of the family lies in the sphere of interest and the social work professional expertise.

Rodzina miejscem radości i nadziei

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Stanisław Chrobak
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pedagogical Culture

t. The family is the first and the most important educational environment of man. In the family system, all of its members influence each other, and therefore one of the most important components of the overall relationship between family members are parental attitudes. Both the personal and pedagogical culture of family members as well as the culture of family life determines the „culture of joy”. Experiencing joy in the family is done in the course of everyday life. Hope is born in this activity. The experience of joy and the testimony of hope also arise from various life situations, which are usually unique and unexpected. Hope mobilizes to fight the hardships of everyday life. Hope is the power to change life.

Landholdings and the family life cycle in traditional Japan

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASAO TAKAGI
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
North East ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines, on the basis of landholding patterns, the relationship between the peasant family economy and its family life cycle in the latter half of the Tokugawa era (1603–1867). The analysis is focused on the life-cycle patterns of the stem family. In such a system, the continuation of the family and its assets assumed prime importance while hired labour did not provide a substantial proportion of the workforce on the farm. In fact, the stem family was officially recognized as the lawful family form by the Meiji government, but even in earlier periods the stem family system provided the dominant form. Among the samurai it was always the required form. Among the peasantry, by the early eighteenth century the stem family was the predominant family system.The family system observed here differs in structure from that found in western-European family systems. Even when developmental aspects of European households are discussed, it is the relationship between the simple, nuclear family forms and their economic and social correlates – especially poverty, inheritance and landholdings – that is analysed. How Japanese stem family households operated with respect to landholding and other variables is the main theme of this article. The data come from an agrarian and considerably backward area of north-east Japan where harvest failures were not infrequent even in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Family Process and Psychosomatic Disease

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Meissner
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Family Process ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Psychosomatic Disease ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emotional System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

This is a review of psychosomatic literature which touches on the relationship between patterns of illness and aspects of family interaction. An attempt is made to reconstruct the links in the chain which lead from family patterns of interaction to the occurrence or intensification of physical illness in family members. The central construct proposed is that of the “family emotional system.” The influence of emotional factors and certain types of critical events on the family system is traced in relation to the precipitation of both psychological and physiological patterns of disruption. The nature of the family system and its functioning are discussed and questions are raised in areas requiring further study and elucidation, particularly relating to the process of symptom distribution and specificity of illness.

scholarly journals Family with an adolescent in the face of depression – possible effects in systemic family therapy

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Syma Marta Al Azab-Malinowska
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Systemic Family Therapy ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to describe the phenomenon of teenage depression in the context of the impact of depression on the functioning of the family system. The first part of the paper shows the understanding of the concept of the family on the basis of the system theory, paying special attention to the family life cycle and the function of symptoms in the family system. The second part of the article presents the etiology, symptoms and specificity of teenage depression. The developmental tasks characteristic for the age of adolescence were also reconstructed. The last part of the article is devoted to the ways in which depressioncan be understood from a systemic and family therapy perspective The possible ways and directions of working with a teenager and his parents are also indicated.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of the family communication scale in Colombian population

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 (s1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Lorena Cudris-Torres ◽  
Marly Johana Bahamón ◽  
José Julián Javela ◽  
Giselle Olivella-López ◽  
Raúl A. Gutiérrez-García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Quality Of Family Life ◽  
Communication Scale

Family communication establishes a vehicle for the transmission of information between family members and completely marks the nature and quality of family life. Family communication can be understood as an index of the climate and quality of the family system. La comunicación familiar establece un vehículo para la transmisión de información entre los miembros dela familia y marca por completo la naturaleza y la calidad de la vida familiar. La comunicación familiar puede entenderse como un índice del clima y la calidaddel sistema familiar.

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