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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Embedded in the framework of intergenerational solidarity, this paper explores the interactions between older immigrants' participation in volunteering activities and intergenerational family relationships in the Chinese community in Sydney, Australia. The study investigates the effects of volunteering on the lives of older Chinese immigrants.
Bingqin Li +5 more
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The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art
, 2000 Recently, scholars have devoted renewed attention to the role of religion in American life. Thus, it is important that they use the most effective means available to categorize and study religious groups.
Brian Steensland +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak +3 more
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I believe in water: A religious perspective on rain and rainmakers
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesWater has always played a significant role in religions. This contribution seeks to investigate comparatively the figure of the rainmaker as presented in Traditional African religions and biblical texts.
Jaco Beyers
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Spirituele vorming om ’n missionale karakter in gemeentes in die praktyk te bewerkstellig
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018 Spiritual formation to bring about a missional character in congregations in practice. This study applied literature review to focus on missional ecclesiology and, more specifically, on the important role and impact of spirituality in supporting a ...
Philippus C. Pretorius +1 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster +4 more
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African Christianity: The search for an African Personality [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 African Christianity, as the synthesis between Christianity and African Traditional Religion, seems to evoke an inquiry relating to the issue of African personality.
Joel Mokhoathi
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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