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How the Story of Jesus is Aiding This Generation of UCC Clergy to Make Sense of their Vocation in a Secular Age

This dissertation, an exercise in practical theology, undertakes two tasks. First, it explores the Christology of fourteen active United Church of Canada (UCC) clergy trained and/or ordained/commissioned in the first two decades of the twenty-first ...
Macgregor, Sheila G, Rev., Macgregor, Sheila Macdonald   +1 more
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The impact of improved information gathering processes on the organizational form and growth of insurers

Risk Management and Insurance Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses the impact of improved data analytics on the size and scope of an insurance firm when access to information is costly. The paper examines the case where policyholders have private and correlated information about the loss they suffered.
M. Martin Boyer
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethical Issues as Triggers of Religious Transformation in Orthodox Christianity. [PDF]

Bioethics
Tarabrin R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Faith in the Midst of Trials: Understanding Depression and Christian Coping Strategies Among Cancer Patients in Eastern Europe. [PDF]

Cureus
Jugrin D, Jitaru AA, Brinza C, Burlacu A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
wiley   +1 more source

Recognizing Compatibility, but Hesitant about In-Class Discussion: Nonreligious Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant Perceptions of the Relationship between Religion and Evolution. [PDF]

CBE Life Sci Educ
Edwards BA, Maas SA, Barnes ME, Brownell SE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Formative Experiences and Welfare State Expectations: A Cohort Analysis of Social Spending Preferences in Switzerland

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Socioeconomic developments in high‐income countries since the postwar era have induced fundamental changes in the predominant social risks to which people are exposed. This article seeks to determine whether this evolution is accompanied by changing expectations of the welfare state.
Andrew Zola
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators of interventions delivered by traditional healers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A systematic review. [PDF]

Transcult Psychiatry
Bhatti MM, Siddiqi N, Jennings H, Afaq S, Arsh A, Khan BA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring inequality in access to English across East Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study statistically examines disparities in access to acquiring English language proficiency (ELL‐access gaps) in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, using nationally representative survey data and a model that assumes causal relationships of ‘social origins → English proficiency’.
Takunori Terasawa
wiley   +1 more source