A Tribute to Gary Bouma

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110588
Author(s):  
Pete Lentini ◽  
Anna Halafoff ◽  
Andrew Singleton ◽  
Greg Barton ◽  
Marion Maddox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Eminent Scholar ◽  
Interreligious Relations

Emeritus Professor Gary Bouma was many things to many people. He was Australia's pre-eminent scholar of the sociology of religion. As an ordained Anglican priest, Gary was noted for his pastoral care of his parishioners and others who sought his counsel and spiritual support. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather. Moreover, his deep commitment to social justice and harmony greatly influenced Gary's participation in interfaith dialogue. Gary contributed so much to scholarship and building bridges between religious communities that he was justly rewarded with an Order of Australia as a Member (AM) in recognition for his services to sociology, to the Anglican Church of Australia, and to interreligious relations in the 2013 Australia Day Honours.

Hostility to Hospitality: Authors’ Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Michael J. Balboni
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Constructive Criticism

AbstractThis article offers a brief response to constructive criticism of the book featured in this edition of Spiritual Care. Hostility to Hospitality argues that the role of spirituality within the care of sick patients, despite clear empirical evidence demonstrating its importance, remains deeply contested because of bias against religious communities. Deeply flawed conceptualizations of the nature of religion and the secular camouflage how a society's commitment to immanence functions like a spirituality. A secular framework weakens how spiritual communities can positively influence medical institutions or socialize professional guilds in caring for the whole patient. The diminishment of communities that champion compassion as a chief end, pave a way for hostile economic, technological, and bureaucratic forces to suppress our ability to fully care for patients in body and soul. Rather than being neutral as purported, the secular structures of medicine manipulate and use pastoral care for its own immanent ends. Hostility to Hospitality argues that unless pluralism is embraced, allowing for a diversity of religious communities to influence the structures of medicine, compassionate and holistic care will increasingly become unlikely as impersonal social forces increase.

How Moral Talk Connects Faith and Social Justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Nicholas Fuist
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Model ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Moral Talk ◽  
Teacher Model

Todd Nicholas Fuist’s chapter examines the complicated ways in which participants in progressive religious communities use religious language to talk about politics. The chapter shows that the communities Fuist studies use three models for understanding the connection between faith and politics: the Teacher Model, where religious exemplars are understood as promoting progressive action; the Community Model, where groups promote specific, progressive understandings of what it means to be a community; and the Theological Model, where existing beliefs are creatively applied to contemporary politics. Through the combination of these three models, these communities create pathways to understanding and action by sacralizing progressive ideologies and practices about social justice.

scholarly journals Religion as a social adhesive: study of the patterns of religious diversity of rural communities in the village of Sembungan-Boyolali

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 10008
Author(s):  
Sarbini Sarbini ◽  
Putut Suharso ◽  
Dicky Sumarsono
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Value System ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
The Core ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Village

For rural communities, religion is understood as the core of the value system to control the actions of the community in order to remain sustainable in accordance with the values of the religious teachings. Religious behavior is a sacred symbol that is based on religious teachings. This study uses a sociology of religion approach that attempts to describe the empirical reality of religious communities related to doctrine, beliefs, social behavior and functional teachings that give birth to religious phenomena. Research methods by collecting data through observation, interviews, and smoothing documentation that is narrated in descriptive-qualitative form with descriptive-interpretive analysis. The results of the study of rural communities have a tendency to make new meanings in sustainable life towards a system of values and religious norms that are confident and internalized in a homogeneous community environment, and express values of appreciation in the form of efforts to maintain togetherness through functional religious messages. When the new meaning of individuals in society results in an interest conflict that is influenced by the individual's social status, then the power of transcendent values is needed. The discovery of this new transcendent meaning is then called the awareness of social collectivity in society.

scholarly journals Adventists in Montenegro—From the Atheistic Psychosis of Socialism to the Post-socialist Individuation of Adventism

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bakrač ◽  
Danijela Vuković-Ćalasan ◽  
Predrag Živković ◽  
Rade Šarović
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Valuable Data ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Depth Interview

The process of converting individuals to a particular religious community is one of the issues addressed by the Sociology of Religion. In the post-socialist Montenegrin society, there have been research works related to dominant religious communities, the Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and the Islamic, while science has shown no interest in small religious groups. The Adventist movement in Montenegro, although present for a long period of time, has failed to mobilise individuals for conversion to a greater extent. Therefore, this research aims to find out when, under what conditions and in what way the individuals in Montenegro, as a post-socialist state, chose Adventism as religious affiliation, what affected this process the most, and were there any specificities in that regard. This paper is a result of a survey conducted via an in-depth interview with 17 believers of the Adventist Church. The obtained results indicate several valuable data: most respondents accepted the Adventist movement in Montenegro in the early 1990s; they got first-hand knowledge of this religion from their friends or wider family members and relatives, a consistent interpretation of the Holy Bible is the main reason for conversion. A significant factor in the process of conversion to Adventism is early religious socialisation within a family.

Educational perspective on interreligious relations among Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Qodir
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
Lay Members ◽  
Third Spaces ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Research Assistants

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how do Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents conduct interreligious relations among them in their everyday lives in Central Kalimantan; why do these religious communities observe interreligious relations as such; and what makes this model of interreligious relations. Design/methodology/approach The corpus for analysis comes from in-depth interviews with 20 persons, which took place between August and October in 2016 in Palangka Raya city and Kotawaringin Timur Regency in Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The informants were selected from groups believed to be lay members and elites of Muslim, Christian and Kaharingan communities using snowball sampling technique facilitated by local research assistants. These informants are mainly mainstream Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents. Findings The way to peaceful and co-existence life lived by religious communities in Indonesia is closely related to its rich treasures and precious tradition of cultural heritage: Indonesian communalism, Indonesian community spirit as seen in terms such as “tradisi hidup bersama,” “semangat kebersamaan” and “satu keluarga.” Instead of emphasizing the divisive differences among communities with various religious backgrounds, Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents in Central Kalimantan create “third spaces,” common grounds shared by these religious communities at individual, institutional and societal levels. Originality/value Based on empirical findings, this research argues that the practices of peaceful and co-existence life lived by diverse religious communities in Indonesia relate to their particular social-cultural contexts of rich treasures and precious tradition of cultural heritage in the forms of Indonesian communalism and community spirit. Instead of emphasizing the divisive differences among themselves, various religious communities in Central Kalimantan create third spaces, common grounds between them and are shared by them at individual, institutional and societal levels.

Spiritual support of patients with advanced illness and associations with end-of-life care and quality of death

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 9514-9514
Author(s):  
T. A. Balboni ◽  
M. E. Paulk ◽  
M. J. Balboni ◽  
E. D. Trice ◽  
A. A. Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Advanced Cancer Patients ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Eol Care

9514 Background: Little is known about whether spiritual support is associated with advanced cancer patients' medical care and quality of death (QoD) at the end of life (EoL). Methods: Coping with Cancer is an NCI/NIMH-funded, prospective, longitudinal, multi-institutional study of advanced, incurable cancer patients conducted from September 2002-August 2008. Analyses were based on 343 deceased patients who were interviewed at baseline and then followed until death a median of 117 days later. At baseline, spiritual support was assessed by (1) patient-rated support of spiritual needs by the medical system (eg, physicians, nurses, chaplains) scored from 0 (not at all) to 5 (completely supported) and (2) patient-reported receipt of hospital/clinic pastoral care services. Outcomes measured included medical care received in the last week of life (hospice; receipt of aggressive EoL care defined as ICU admission, resuscitation, ventilation or chemotherapy in the last week of life; and death in an acute care facility) and QoD. QoD assessments (possible 0–30, with increasing scores reflecting better QoD) were obtained by post-mortem interviews of a caregiver present in the patient's last week of life. Multivariable analyses examined (1) associations between spiritual support variables and EoL care outcomes, controlling for baseline confounds (eg, race, religiousness, patient EoL care preferences) and (2) associations between spiritual support variables and QoD with adjustment for confounds (eg, baseline quality of life, aggressive EoL care). Results: In adjusted analyses, greater medical system spiritual support was associated with increased receipt of hospice care [OR = 2.97 (1.24–7.11), p = .01], but not with receipt of aggressive EoL care or death in an acute care facility. Receipt of pastoral care services was not associated with any EoL care outcome. In adjusted analyses, spiritual support from the medical system and receipt of pastoral care services were significantly associated with better patient QoD (standardized β = 0.16, p = .009 and β = 0.20, p = .0005, respectively). Conclusions: Support of advanced cancer patients' spiritual needs by the medical care team is associated with increased receipt of hospice care and improved patient QoD. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

scholarly journals Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations With End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy A. Balboni ◽  
Lauren C. Vanderwerker ◽  
Susan D. Block ◽  
M. Elizabeth Paulk ◽  
Christopher S. Lathan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Treatment Preferences ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Advanced Cancer Patients ◽  
Advance Care

Purpose Religion and spirituality play a role in coping with illness for many cancer patients. This study examined religiousness and spiritual support in advanced cancer patients of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds and associations with quality of life (QOL), treatment preferences, and advance care planning. Methods The Coping With Cancer study is a federally funded, multi-institutional investigation examining factors associated with advanced cancer patient and caregiver well-being. Patients with an advanced cancer diagnosis and failure of first-line chemotherapy were interviewed at baseline regarding religiousness, spiritual support, QOL, treatment preferences, and advance care planning. Results Most (88%) of the study population (N = 230) considered religion to be at least somewhat important. Nearly half (47%) reported that their spiritual needs were minimally or not at all supported by a religious community, and 72% reported that their spiritual needs were supported minimally or not at all by the medical system. Spiritual support by religious communities or the medical system was significantly associated with patient QOL (P = .0003). Religiousness was significantly associated with wanting all measures to extend life (odds ratio, 1.96; 95% CI, 1.08 to 3.57). Conclusion Many advanced cancer patients’ spiritual needs are not supported by religious communities or the medical system, and spiritual support is associated with better QOL. Religious individuals more frequently want aggressive measures to extend life.

scholarly journals Digital Public Sphere of Bangladesh: Religious Confrontation and Domination

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Sayeed Al- Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Authentic Data

This a qualitative macro study conducted on Bangladesh society to reveal how religious communities interact in cyberspace and outside. Although prior study in this specific field is, to some extent, rare in Bangladesh, this research is an unique addition in the field of digital sociology and sociology of religion. In this study, rigorous observation and analysis have been presented backed up by selected and authentic data from secondary sources.

scholarly journals The Influence Of Tarkaśāstra Proficiency In The Internal And Interfaith Dialogue Nowadays

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Ni Kadek Surpi
Keyword(s):  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge

<p><em>Proficiency in Tarkaśāstra, philosophy, and theology dramatically influences the ability to run dialogue both internally and between religious communities. Besides that, the ability to think critically and established arguments, dialogue, debate, and discussion are the central knowledge in darśana. Hindu thinkers master the Tarka-Vāda and can dialogue with followers of Sanatana Dharma and other believers. The expertise of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya and other Hindu thinkers in the field of Tarka-Vāda is essential today in the Dharmapracāraka, teachers, Hindu intellectuals, academics, and Hindu devotees. Also, the mastery of the Tarka-Vada as an effort to support the science of communication (Vakya Vidya) in the Hindu tree of knowledge and glorify Vācaspati.</em></p>

scholarly journals Social Justice and Human Rights in the Socio-Cultural Space of Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Е. М. Мчедлова ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Monitoring Study ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article considers, in particular, such political values as social justice and human rights, their place in the Russian socio-cultural space. The article presents the sociological data of the monitoring study conducted by the Center for the Sociology of Religion and Socio-Cultural Processes of the ISPI of the Russian Academy of Sciences in recent years in Moscow and some regions.

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