scholarly journals Spirituality and Religiosity during Suicide Bereavement: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 766
Author(s):  
Austėja Agnietė Čepulienė ◽  
Beata Pučinskaitė ◽  
Katryna Spangelytė ◽  
Paulius Skruibis ◽  
Danutė Gailienė

A loved one’s loss to suicide can be a traumatic experience and trigger a difficult grief process, identity changes, a loss of the sense of meaning and a spiritual crisis. Spirituality and/or religiosity (S/R) can be both an important resource and a source of stigmatisation during suicide bereavement. This study aims to synthesise the extant findings about S/R during suicide bereavement in qualitative studies. After an exhaustive selection of articles, the current review utilised a total of 484 citations and seven studies. A thematic synthesis yielded five major themes related to S/R during suicide bereavement: the need to be helped by the religious community without being judged; S/R-related experience of the deceased as a figure who continues to exist; S/R experienced without a conscious choice; conscious reach towards S/R themes; not relating to S/R during suicide bereavement. These findings indicate that the role of S/R during suicide bereavement is complex and varies from providing help to serving as a source of suffering. Hence, practitioners and religious communities should be mindful of the S/R themes during suicide bereavement.

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manreet K. Chehal ◽  
David J. Granville

The cytochrome p450 2C (CYP2C) monooxygenase family is a key player in the generation of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids. It has recently become apparent that CYP plays an important role in cardiovascular physiology and contributes to the pathogenesis of various cardiovascular diseases. In particular, several studies have demonstrated a role for these enzymes in cardiac ischemia and reperfusion injury. The current review summarizes the role of the CYP epoxygenase, CYP2C9, in ischemic heart disease and vascular homeostasis.


2021 ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
AZAMAT ZH. IDRISSOV ◽  

This article studies the role of religion in the formation of new identities. Religion is presented as an alternative to secular nationalism and the revival of new religious identities as a reaction to the crisis of the secular type of nation-building. The first part of the article shows the historical background of the crisis of the theory of secularization and the “religious renaissance”, which was an attempt to return religion to public discourse. Religious identity is considered as a strict construct that is formed by certain actors using various mechanisms. The types of construction of religious identity are considered from three sides using the terms of M. Castells as the problem of “legitimizing identity”, “resistance identity” and identity as a “project”. Analyzing the role of religion in the formation of new identities the author comes to the following conclusions: 1) religion acts as a factor of legitimacy in new religious communities, where religion offers a sacred justification for power; 2) religion acts as a factor of protection of one's own identity under the wave of globalization, which acts as a hostile dominant identity; 3) the religious community acts as a separate “imagined” construct, which in the global dimension erases linguistic and ethnic boundaries, but acts as a dividing factor in local conflicts...


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Ahmad Wahidi

<p><em>In the history of religion and religious communities has resulted in monumental achievements and noble, which can still be seen today. Any civilization on earth would not be separated from the role of religion and religious people. Meanwhile, today's religious sentiments are often more easily ignited. Many bloody incidents and riots as motivated by understanding and actualization of religion by the religious community. Similarly, many political issues, economy, culture etc. are initially not religious issues suddenly by certain parties associated with religion, so the problem is getting bigger. In such a situation a comprehensive religious view is needed. Formalist-exoteric approach that has dominated the study of religion was not complete even further widened the gap between religious communities because more emphasis on the physical dimensions of these religious symbols. Approaches are possible and must be socialized and adopted is esoteric approach or see substansi of religion, because by looking subsatansi of religion will be able to eliminate the partition of the partition that limits their religious least in terms of his humanity or social relationships between people. One dimension that can be approached is esoteric mysticism, because every religion must have the dimensions of mysticism. And it turns out the substantive similarities of this dimension in any religion.</em></p>


Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Vlaho Kovačević ◽  
Krunoslav Malenica ◽  
Goran Kardum

The purpose of this paper was to interpret the usage of symbols in popular religion based on contemporary symbolic interactionism using the reference framework of the symbolic community. The strength of the chosen symbolic interactionist approach is primarily in the research of the role of different dimensions of the religious in understanding the meaning of popular religion in the symbolic community. The qualitative approach and the method of in-depth semi-structured interviews were employed in the research, which responded to the main goal of the research on the meanings the participants of the popular religion attach to the symbolic interactions. A deliberate sample was used for the selection of participants in the popular forms of celebrating the days of Our Lady of Vrpolje, Our Lady of Sinj, and Our Lady of Karavaj as well as the Guardians of Christ’s grave in Vodice, Croatia. According to the results, popular religion, transmitted through visible signs, places believers in a position of physical contact with the supernatural world within a symbolic environment. To achieve this, popular religion displays a need for sacred images, words, sounds, signs, movements, smells. Believers in popular religion seek to establish as simple, intimate, and direct relationship with a deity as possible. The respondents’ answers confirm that the experiential dimension of religiosity is lived primarily on a personal level that precedes the social dimension. For the participants, the religious community has a symbolic character in terms of creating strong bonds between members of society or a social group, especially within the symbolic meaning of a feast day.


Author(s):  
Abdul Azis Muslimin ◽  
Baharuddin Baharuddin

The purpose of this research to review and analyze the behavior of religious community garbage man , and role of stakeholders terahadap religious training for the poor , especially the garbage men in Rappocini in Gunung Sari village cider in the City of Makassar. Type this research qualitative analysis method use phenomenology descriptive approach.Target this report is written by observing work garbage man in the afternoon until night car come when container, and there are around 13 one who fill from garbage exertion container taken from house to house in their respective work areas in several RT/RW. Types of data on used covering, primary data, the data obtained in the field through interviews deeply to the informants.Secondary data, the data obtained of documents that is in the government Gunung Sari Makassar City. Focus group discussion (FGD ), this activity was carried out under the coordination of sub-district government Gunung Sari kecamatan rappocini makassar city. The research results show that religious behavior community garbage man in gunung sari Kecamataan Rappocini City of Makassar very pragmatic characterized by simple once they perceive. Religious working as a trash is an option that inevitable for existence of poor people like this be punctuated the urban community because the informal sector they touch highly improbable touched by the bourgeois or economic as well as the conglomerate top, and the presence of stakeholders and the focus of intense kajiannya to social issues is really needed in order to meet the needs of their spiritual.Muhammadiyah University as a college, characterized by religious should make the very sent Tridarma College with had expanded coaching, religious communities like this let alone college were inside sub-districts Rappocini is.


2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 127-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeshan Ali ◽  
Zhenbin Wang ◽  
Rai Muhammad Amir ◽  
Shoaib Younas ◽  
Asif Wali ◽  
...  

While the use of vinegar to fi ght against infections and other crucial conditions dates back to Hippocrates, recent research has found that vinegar consumption has a positive effect on biomarkers for diabetes, cancer, and heart diseases. Different types of vinegar have been used in the world during different time periods. Vinegar is produced by a fermentation process. Foods with a high content of carbohydrates are a good source of vinegar. Review of the results of different studies performed on vinegar components reveals that the daily use of these components has a healthy impact on the physiological and chemical structure of the human body. During the era of Hippocrates, people used vinegar as a medicine to treat wounds, which means that vinegar is one of the ancient foods used as folk medicine. The purpose of the current review paper is to provide a detailed summary of the outcome of previous studies emphasizing the role of vinegar in treatment of different diseases both in acute and chronic conditions, its in vivo mechanism and the active role of different bacteria.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aja Taitano ◽  
Bradley Smith ◽  
Cade Hulbert ◽  
Kristin Batten ◽  
Lalania Woodstrom ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 4-10

AbstractImmunosuppression permits graft survival after transplantation and consequently a longer and better life. On the other hand, it increases the risk of infection, for instance with cytomegalovirus (CMV). However, the various available immunosuppressive therapies differ in this regard. One of the first clinical trials using de novo everolimus after kidney transplantation [1] already revealed a considerably lower incidence of CMV infection in the everolimus arms than in the mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) arm. This result was repeatedly confirmed in later studies [2–4]. Everolimus is now considered a substance with antiviral properties. This article is based on the expert meeting “Posttransplant CMV infection and the role of immunosuppression”. The expert panel called for a paradigm shift: In a CMV prevention strategy the targeted selection of the immunosuppressive therapy is also a key element. For patients with elevated risk of CMV, mTOR inhibitor-based immunosuppression is advantageous as it is associated with a significantly lower incidence of CMV events.


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