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Actual Problems of the Orthodox Mission among Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Religious Organization in Modern Russia [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2016 The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a serious spiritual crisis among many Russians. Quite a few of them responded to the missionary activity of Western preachers including Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Larisa Yasonova
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Managing acute promyelocytic leukemia in patients belonging to the Jehovah’s Witness congregation
Hematology Reports, 2017 Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a hyper-acute leukemia and presents with cytopenias and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Jehovah’s Witnesses with APL offer a unique challenge during induction by refusing transfusion and pose a difficult ...
Anand P. Jillella +7 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Complex surgery associated with major hemorrhage presents particular risks for Jehovah's Witnesses who do not accept transfusion of blood products. Intraoperative use of two cell saver machines simultaneously can maximize the yield of salvaged blood from
Thomas G. Smith +5 more
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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020 Background Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse allogeneic blood transfusions, which makes cardiovascular surgery challenging. Surgeons must minimize blood and fluid loss within one procedure.
Kohei Sumi +3 more
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Case series of Jehovah's witnesses having Total Knee Arthroplasty in Hong Kong [PDF]
, 2014 Electronic Poster Presentations: P48INTRODUCTION: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is challenging in Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW), as they do not accept transfusions.
Chan, PK +5 more
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser +2 more
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Institutionalization of Protestantism as a way out
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2005 The study of the current state and tendencies of the development of the traditional trends of late Protestantism in Ukraine - Baptism, Adventism and Pentecostalism, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses during 1999-2005 made it possible, in our opinion, to be ...
Petro Yarotskiy, Yu.Ye. Reshetnikov
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Winds of Change 1989: A Perspective from an Office for Religious Affairs Somewhere in Eastern Europe
, 2020 Under communism, in what used to be Eastern Europe, religion was neither outlawed nor favorably regarded either. In some cases, church and state had been at latent or open war as in Poland or in the former Yugoslavia.
Perica, Vjekoslav
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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward +14 more
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