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Man is a religious being and Fascism, Communism, National-socialism, the multicultural, Feminism can be viewed through its lens. There is one secular religion that allows today the thought of many people, this is the ideology of progress, which has its roots in Christianity but manifests itself in many anti-Christian forms. This paper presents a comprehensive view of this trans-ideological ideology of progress that can be found almost everywhere.
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This essay highlights the need for prayer and its effects. The only remedy for the human pain that surrounds us is converting it to God. He who truly prays finds the power to assert the spirit fully and effectively by cultivating a life of prayer. The life of prayer is the life of God in us. It is an active ferment for the transformation of the human soul. From a social point of view, prayer makes the human heart always act with mercy and justice. Prayer is a progressive opening of the relationship towards the other. The life of prayer can change for the better the image of this world by renewing human life.
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Studies examining religiosity/spirituality (R/S), gender, parental education level and psychological well-being report divergent findings, most of them being on North American populations. This research aimed to explore the relationship between R/S and psychological well-being of Romanian emerging adults. The relationship between R/S and demographical variables such as gender and parents’ educational level was investigated. We explored these relationships in a sample of Romanian emerging adults, (N=468 female, 54.2%; Mage=24; Sd=8.68), 57.9% from theological faculties of various denominations and 42,1 % non-theological. Our findings show that R/S is higher as parents’ educational level is lower, with male emerging adults being more religious than female ones and theology students being more religious than non-theology ones. Moreover, the results revealed a significant relationship between R/S and some facets of psychological well-being. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, with emphasis on the particularities relevant for the Romanian socio-cultural context.
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Oxford University Press, New York, 2020 pp. viii+ 107, ISBN 978-0-190-07920-8
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Forgiveness could be regarded as one of the most important moral imperatives across various religions. Although numerous studies have confirmed the hypothesis that religious people tend to be more forgiving, there is still an open question as to which dimensions of religiosity are responsible for this tendency and whether religious people equally tend to forgive others, but also themselves, and feel being forgiven by God. The present study investigated the associations between religiosity and dispositional forgiveness using the basic dimensions of religiousness model (including cognitive, emotional, moral, and social dimensions of religiosity) and multifaceted measurement of forgiveness (self-forgiveness, forgiveness of others, divine forgiveness, and religiously motivated forgiveness). The study involved 427 individuals who identified themselves as religious (71% women). The results showed weak positive correlations between dimensions of religiousness and dispositional selfforgiveness, moderate associations with dispositional forgiveness of others and religiously motivated forgiveness, and strong associations with dispositional divine forgiveness. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that when controlled for covariations between dimensions of religiousness and dimensions of forgiveness, the behaving (morality) dimension of forgiveness predicted dispositional forgiveness of others and divine forgiveness. Religiously motivated forgiveness mediated between the believing (meaning) and behaving dimensions of religiousness, and dispositional forgiveness.
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Spirituality at the Horizon of Religious Phenomenology and Pastoral Psychology/ 2. We are living in a designer world, where not only the circumstances but our gods will be created consciously. We hunger for a god. Choosing an inadequate god, a god too small to transcend our limitations and who, therefore, can neither save nor transform us drives us to keep hunting. This study outlines the phenomenology of Christian spirituality, religious practice and highlights their working field. We find correlation between spirituality and spiritual well-being and happiness, factors that contribute to a positive personal development. We are condemned to meaning. There is a universal impulse to endow our joys and sorrows with meaning. Christian spirituality is a condition for us to reframe and understand our life perspectives and reach the “Courage to Be” (Tillich).
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When (Seemingly) Nothing Happens – Reflection as a Precondition for Change. This is the first of an eight-part series of essays primarily for young adults and those helping them to grow up (parents, teachers, mentors). The entire series deals with the “heroic journey” of growing up, following the monomyth transformation scenario described by Joseph Campbell. This archetypal journey begins with the prelude to change, with the discovery of worlds outside “my world”. Contemplation is part of all our lives, even if we do not foster it so consciously. Whether it takes the form of talking to others, an inner monologue, or a prayer to God, contemplation is important because together with pondering it can be a precursor to life-changing events. Change begins with a sense of lack, of being unsettled, but losing focus is part of the search for a way out. It is usually not easy to remain in a state of cluelessness, of being at a loss, but being out of focus is a chance to deepen our connection to ourselves and to move inner energies that can intuitively help us to find the solution to our questions of life.
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Human life begins at the moment of conception. According to science the fetus is a human being, and as such obtains the right to life and all the other human rights, from the very moment of conception. To respect these rights, it is crucial to prepare parents for their parenthood in mental, physical and finan- cial aspects, both in their private life and in medical field. The vital aspects in perinatal care are: proper pregnant women care, access to professional examination, three-level prenatal care system as well as promoting healthy nutrition and life style.In case of perinatal diagnosis indicating a fetal disease, an attempt can be made to treat an ill child during pregnancy and to plan the child’s delivery in a highly – specialized medical centre, where the newborn can obtain appropriate help just after birth. If, however, the modern medicine is not able to help, the child’s parents should be well prepared for the bad ending of the pregnancy, including the baby’s death. According to current Polish law the woman (the mother) or both parents – are not allowed to make a decision to terminate pregnancy in case of congenital defect causing impairment or incurable disease in a child.Due to that fact, the parents’, especially mother’s acceptance of continuation of the pregnancy after negative prenatal diagnosis seems to be of vital importance. Child care is a basic test of human attitude towards one another. The right to life is the basic human right. It is not an issue of a worldview or a reli- gious law, as some public opinion may claim. Helping parents in accepting continuation of the pregnancy in case of fetal defect involves professional medical as well as psychological, psychotherapeutic, peda- gogical and spiritual help.
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Religious coping refers to an individual's turning to religious beliefs, worship, and practices while overcoming situations. Recently, the number of studies on the religious coping strategies of individuals has increased in Turkey. These studies, which are generally conducted with the literature review method, utilise scales developed in foreign countries and adapted to Turkey. This study aims to develop a religious coping scale that conforms with Turkey's religious and cultural structure for people of different sexes, ages, places, educational levels, and piety. For this purpose, a pool of concepts was created by also benefitting from interviews carried out with the participation of people in the close circle first. Afterwards, a draft scale of 76 items was formed based on this pool of concepts. Six experts' opinions were taken to ensure the scale's content validity. Considering the experts' opinions, three items measuring two features at once were divided into two, seven items were excluded from the scale, and two items were added to the scale. Additionally, the scale was revised according to the opinions of two grammar experts and two measurement and evaluation experts. Finally, an eight-factor and 74-item scale, in which items are grouped under four positive religious coping dimensions and four negative religious coping dimensions, was obtained. Designed as a 5-point Likert type, the scale was conducted with a sample group of ten to test its comprehensibility and duration. After identifying that the expressions are comprehensible and the scale is completed in five minutes, the Ethics Commission application was made. Approved with the 2022/110 numbered decision of the Ethics Committee on Scientific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities of Necmettin Erbakan University taken at the 11/03/2022 dated and 03 numbered meeting, the draft scale was first conducted in April and May 2022. The scale was filled in by 373 participants appropriately; it was seen that KMO and Bartlett's Test results were significant, and exploratory factor analysis was made. The analysis resulted in the exclusion of 38 items that gave a similar load ratio to more than one factor and whose distinctiveness level was below 0.40. The scale was conducted again with another sample group of 257 participants to validate the factor structure of the 36 items grouped under six factors. It was seen that the confirmatory factor analysis results of the scale complied with the exploratory factor analysis results. As a result, a religious coping scale, which has high-level reliability for all sub-dimensions; has two dimensions as positive and negative; comprises six factors; is valid and reliable, and has a solid theoretical basis, has been designed.
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This study aims to analyze the intermediary role of forgiveness and mercy in the relationship between spirituality and aggression. The method for the study is relational research, which is a quantitative research method. As the data collection tools of the study, “Spirituality Scale,” “Aggression Scale,” “Forgiveness Scale,” and “Mercy Scale” were used. Of the sample group, 97 (22.8%) are male, and 327 (77.5%) are female. In the intermediary analysis, the total, direct, and indirect impact values of spirituality on aggression and their bootstrap confidence intervals were calculated. Its total impact, namely its total impact when spirituality, mercy, and forgiveness are included in the analysis altogether is negative, −.4498, and their confidence intervals are found to be BootLLCI = −.4972 and BootULCI = −.0762. Direct impact, in other words the effect of spirituality on aggression, is negative, −.2867, and their confidence intervals are found to be BootLLCI = −.6711 and BootULCI = −.2284. Total indirect impact, that is, the overall intermediary impact of mercy and forgiveness on forgiveness is negative, −.1631, and their confidence intervals are found to be BootLLCI= −.2777 and BootULCI = −.0543. In this context, it was concluded that forgiveness has a partial intermediary role in the relationship between spirituality and aggression, mercy does not play an intermediary role in the relationship between spirituality and aggression, and that mercy does not have a serial mediatory role on forgiveness in the relationship between spirituality and aggression.
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In today's world, the use of technology has created a new area of responsibility for parents. Digital media, which has entered our lives with the development of technology, has also influenced children born into the digital world, as in many areas. It is known that some harmful results occur when digital media is used in an uncontrolled and unconscious way. Digital parenting is a new conceptualization that can be summarized as parents protecting their children in the use of the internet and digital media, acting consciously against situations that may hinder their development and assuming the necessary parental roles. Digital madia use is open to education and discipline, especially for parent and children, due to the problems it causes. Studies on digital parenting are carried out in different areas in our country and the world. However, the subject’s religious attitude and behavior aspect has not been examined much with the practices of religious sciences. At this point, parents' religious attitudes about children's use of the internet and digital media is a problem that needs to be investigated. Religion is one of the most essential elements in life, especially in terms of directing, shaping and giving meaning to individual and family life. The study aims to determine parents’ religious attitudes and evaluations regarding their children's use of digital media. In this study, which aims to examine religious attitudes in digital parenting, semi-structured questions were asked to a total of 22 participants, 12 men, 10 women, living in different cities of Turkey, who were reached between December 2020 and January 2023 by purposive sampling method in accordance with the qualitative research design. The data obtained were divided into themes and described by content analysis method. As a result, it has been revealed by the findings that religiously anxious, fatalistic, conscious-controlled and reactionary-prohibitive behaviors occur in digital parenting. In addition, it has been determined that parents, especially those with religious sensitivities, may have religious concerns about their children's internet and social media use, and accordingly their behaviors and attitudes may differ.
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Some scholars in the area of psychology of religion have stated that children until a certain age cannot comprehend God as a God but instead, they can concrete God in a superhuman format (anthropomorphic). However, some studies conducted with children have shown that most of the children at a young age can comprehend an abstract God image and can differentiate God’s features from humans. Therefore, this article will attempt to clarify how children’s God concepts have been explained in the developmental psychology of religion and how these theories illuminate the children’s abstract God concepts. To achieve this goal, the pastoral cycle was used as a method, which is a common one in pastoral and practical theology and consists of 4 stages: experience, analysis, theological reflections, and action. As a conclusion, regardless of their religion or cultural background, children’s minds may have the ability of receiving and comprehending the abstract God concept since birth. God can be understood as an all-present, formless, all-knowing, and allpowerful being by children. This illustrates that the religious thinking development of children has different explanations along with the stage theories including Piaget’s one, when the issue comes to the abstract religious entities and religious thinking.
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The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between religious orientations and the PERMA model of well-being. The "Muslim Religious Orientation Scale–Revised" and the "PERMA" scale were applied in the study, in which 875 people from different regions of Turkey participated. In addition, survey measurements regarding gender, region of residence, subjective income perception, and education level were applied. Descriptive analyses and correlational statistics (Mann–Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis H test, Spearman’s correlation analysis) were used to examine the relationship between variables. At the end of the study, it was determined that the religious orientation and PERMA well-being model levels of the sample were high. Participants obtained the highest religious orientation score from the intrinsic religious orientation scale and the highest well-being score from the engagement scale. While the PERMA scales did not differ according to the gender variable, the scores of intrinsic religious orientation differed significantly in favor of women. In the variables of subjective income and education, there were significant differences at various levels between the groups in the scores obtained from the religious orientation scales and PERMA well-being scales. However, there was no significant difference between the groups in the variable of region of residence. As a result of the research, positive and significant relationships were found between the intrinsic, extrinsic, and fundamentalist religious orientation styles and the PERMA well-being model subdimensions, apart from the quest religious orientation.
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to show selected aspects of religiosity in the context of disability or lack of it – its status in the lives of people with disabilities and the personal or non-personal nature of the relationship with God. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main research problem was to determine what overall scores people with physical disabilities obtained on the Centrality of Religiosity Scale and the Personal Relationship to God Scale in comparison with people without disabilities, and what scores they obtained in such dimensions of religiosity as beliefs, prayer, updated relationship, mutual relationship and dialogical relationship, and in the dimension of cult and interest dimensions compared to people without disabilities. Dedicated scales, and a self-constructed survey questionnaire, were used to verify the formulated hypotheses. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The article discusses the issue of religion and religiosity on psychological grounds, in particular, its role and function that it can play in the lives of people with illnesses and disabilities. It was examined with the use of data statistical analysis, whether selected aspects of religiosity of people with physical disabilities significantly differ from the religiosity of people without disabilities, and whether religion plays an important role in the lives of people with physical disabilities. RESEARCH RESULTS: As a result of the statistical analysis, it was determined that the studied dimensions of religiosity are not related to disability. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: It is difficult to generalize the results obtained because of several factors: the population of people with disabilities is the most heterogeneous community, a specific set of scales was used, which does not exhaust the issue of religiosity, and, finally, the size of the surveyed population does not entitle to far-reaching generalizations.
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Natural disasters are one of the periods when the need for religious services emerges clearly. This need is clearly seen from the interpretation of disasters to the solution of post-disaster mental and spiritual problems. The Presidency of Religious Affairs, in coordination with other state institutions, provided various services in order to meet the needs of the individiual and the society after natural disasters. Spiritual counseling and guidance, which is one of the most important of these, is a service provided within the scope of meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of people after a disaster, keeping their morale high and making sense of the disaster. The study is based on the following question: What are the spiritual counseling services provided by the religious officials in the acute period after the disaster, and how do these services work? The aim of this research is to determine the current status of the Spiritual Counseling and Guidance (SCG) service, which is an essential component of the religious services offered in the provinces most affected by the earthquake, by the Presidency of Religious Affairs after Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes on February 6, 2023, through the observations made on the service providers and service recipients, and to develop recommendations. This study was carried out by focusing on the cultural analysis (ethnography) design, which is one of the qualitative research approaches. Participated and unattended observation was used as a data collection technique in the research, and a semi-structured observation form was used as a data collection tool. At the end of this field research, it was observed that under the current conditions, SCG services are not based on a systematic counselor-counselee relationship, but rather on a consolation process in which visits, asking about well-being, chatting, reciting the Qur’an, and praying come to the fore. As it was the the first weeks after the earthquake, it was found that it was common to provide spiritual counseling and guidance services (SCG) through funeral services, cemetery visits, conversations in mosques. It has been determined that the public`s approach to the services provided is positive, but the access to young people remains limited. One-to-one communication and regular visits by the Directorate of Religious Affairs officials with the disaster victims facilitated services other than spiritual counseling and guidance. Therefore, reducing the services provided by Directorate of Religious Affairs religious education only means not evaluating the service provided in the region sufficiently.
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