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A comparative study of nurses’ competencies in integrating religion/spirituality into patient care [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background There is a need of research to evaluate and compare the competencies of nurses in integrating patients’ religion and spirituality into nursing practice in various settings, including general and psychiatric hospitals.
Jamileh Farokhzadian, Amirreza Sabzi, Zakieh Farmitani   +2 more
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Interreligious dialogue as a myth

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
The authors aim in this article to show why it is extremely difficult to expect representatives of missionary religions to engage in productive interreligious dialogue. The article demonstrates how the imperative to convert, which is rooted in a sense of
Josephine N. Akah, Anthony C. Ajah
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‘I bu Delaila ji aguba’: Revisiting the perception of sociopaths in an African community

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Reports of increasing family violence abound in Nigeria. Although studies have implicated cultural constructs as the basis for this trend, this study specifically contemplated the nexus between the increased violence and Anti-Social Personality Disorder (
Paulinus O. Agbo
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Exploring the reasons for perennial attacks on churches in Nigeria through the victims’ perspective

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Although there are several provisions within the Nigerian legal framework that, however, address the issue of church attack, the state capacity to implement effective constitutional sanctioning on perpetrators of this heinous crime has always been found ...
Enweonwu O. Anthony, Cletus O. Obasi, Deborah O. Obi, Benjamin O. Ajah, Okpanoch S. Okpan, Chukwuemeka D. Onyejegbu, Aloysius C. Obiwulu, Emeka M. Onwuama   +7 more
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Begging enterprise: A growing trend among Igbo Christians in Nsukka Urban

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
It is obvious that the practice of begging is growing exponentially and changing into various forms mostly among the Christians in the Nsukka area. Although begging has long been in existence in the Nsukka area, it has never been encouraged.
Ndidiamaka V. Ugwu, Kanayochukwu M. Okoye   +1 more
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The sociologically acceptable definition of religion [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2004
In this article the author has presented several important issues regarding the sociology of religion, but primarily the issue of the sociologically acceptable definition of religion both in theoretical and empirical research.
Blagojević Mirko
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Who gets what? Assessing the reincarnation debate

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Reincarnation is a death-specific and forward-looking philosophico-religious phenomenon that enjoys a cross-cultural appeal. It represents the theory that when the soul separates from the body at death, it informs another body for another round of ...
Nicholas U. Asogwa, Michael E. Onwuama
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Environmental determinant of religious names: A study of Úgwú and naming among the Nsukka-Igbo people of Nigeria

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article makes a contribution towards understanding the correlation between Úgwú (hill or mountain) and personal names among the Igbo people of Nigeria. Sacralisation of the natural environment which include hills or mountains is a belief that cuts
Paulinus O. Agbo, Christian Opata, Malachy Okwueze   +2 more
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Recognition and justification: Towards a rationalisation approach to inculturation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Several religious and theological approaches to culture in African studies have assessed the idea of inculturation as a helpless incorporation of cultural values from one culture into another.
Josephine N. Akah, Aloysius C. Obiwulu, Anthony C. Ajah   +2 more
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Measuring attitude toward theistic faith : assessing the Astley-Francis Scale among Christian, Muslim and secular youth in England [PDF]

, 2013
Empirical research within the social scientific study of religion in general and within the psychology of religion in particular remains very conscious of the complex nature of its subject matter. Empirical research in this field needs to take cognisance
DeVellis R. F., Eek J., Evans T. E., Fowler J. W., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Kay W. K., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Likert R., Munayer S. J., Osgood C. E., Sahin A., Tiliopoulos N.   +25 more
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