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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
wiley   +1 more source

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, Martha L. Arellano, Leonard T. Heffner, Manila Gaddh, Amelia A. Langston, Hanna J. Khoury, Abhishek Mangoankar, Vamsi K. Kota   +7 more
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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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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, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perioperative management including dual cell salvage in a Jehovah's Witness patient undergoing major urological surgery

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, Irina Anastasescu, James M. Wight, Anicee Danaee, Rajesh Nair, Tim S. O'Brien   +5 more
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A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
wiley   +1 more source

A Jehovah’s Witness with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Successfully Treated with an Epigenetic Drug, Azacitidine: A Clue for Development of Anti-AML Therapy Requiring Minimum Blood Transfusions

Case Reports in Hematology, 2014
Therapy for acute leukemia in Jehovah’s Witnesses patients is very challenging because of their refusal to accept blood transfusions, a fundamental supportive therapy for this disease.
Yumi Yamamoto, Akihito Kawashima, Eri Kashiwagi, Kiyoyuki Ogata   +3 more
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A single-institution experience of performing bloodless transplant in Jehovah’s Witness patients

Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, 2019
Objective/Background: Autologous stem cell transplant has been shown to prolong survival in multiple myeloma (MM). A common complication of the pre-transplant conditioning chemotherapy is severe multi-lineage cytopenias, resulting in significant ...
Alexander Coltoff, Aditya Shreenivas, Solmaz Afshar, Amir Steinberg   +3 more
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Staged open surgery for bicuspid aortic valve regurgitation and coarctation of the aorta in a Jehovah’s witness

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, Shigehiko Yoshida, Yoshitaka Okamura, Tomokazu Nakamura   +3 more
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Neutrality, Proselytism and Religious Minorities at the European Court of Human Rights and the US Supreme Court [PDF]

, 2009
The paper examines the way the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights have dealt with the discriminatory treatment of religious minorities in relation to proselytism, and the role played by the principle of neutrality in arguments ...
Hatzis, N.
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