Essays about: "religious coping"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words religious coping.

  1. 1. Petitionary personal prayer as a coping strategy in irritable bowel syndrome – a correlational questionnaire study

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Empirisk-praktiska studier av religion och teologi

    Author : Gerhard Andersson; [2023]
    Keywords : Irritable Bowel Syndrome; petitionary prayer; coping strategies;

    Abstract : Background: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder in which the main symptoms are abdominal pain or discomfort combined with diarrhoea and/or constipation. Personal petitionary prayer – asking God for help and support when facing problems in life – is among the most common forms of prayer and can be viewed as a coping strategy when managing health problems. READ MORE

  3. 2. How to cope and how to resist : Religion, Culture and Courage Among Thai Women in Belgium Faced with Intimate Partner Violence.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Philip Lane; [2023]
    Keywords : Intimate Partner Violence ; Lived Religion ; Migration; Coping; Buddhism; Thai;

    Abstract : This thesis studies, through a series of interviews, the use of Lived Religion and cultural practices by migrant Thai women in Belgium as they seek to cope with the intimate partner violence they have suffered. The research looks at which strategies help the women to cope and which empower them to resist and leave their abusive context. READ MORE

  4. 3. Agency in the Warsaw Ghetto : An Intersectional Analysis of the Daily Life, Survival, and Death of Elderly Jews

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Janika Raisch; [2022]
    Keywords : Holocaust; Genocide; Warsaw ghetto; Second World War; Nazi; Nazis; Poland; Warsaw; Jews; Polish Jews; Ghettoisation; Ghettoization; Ghetto; Ghettos; Jewish council; Jewish Self-Help; Elderly; Elderly Jews; Old age; Intersectionality; Agency;

    Abstract : In Holocaust research, the study of elderly Jews in Nazi German ghettos remains a blind spot. This thesis begins to fill the research gap by exploring the everyday life of elderly Jews and their agency under the structural conditions of the Warsaw ghetto. READ MORE

  5. 4. “We are also just normal people, like everybody else.” : Young Jehovah’s Witnesses in Belgium and their Experiences of Others’ Conceptions About their Religion.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Liselotte Erika Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : young Jehovah’s Witnesses; youth’s perspectives; religion; media; mis conceptions;

    Abstract : This study examines young Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of others’ conceptions of their religion in media and through real-life encounters, and how they think it affects their everyday life. To get an insight into their subjective experiences, this research applied a qualitative approach with an interpretivist epistemological standpoint and constructionism as an ontological position. READ MORE

  6. 5. Can I bring my whole self to my workplace? : A qualitative study of immigrant Muslim women’s workplace experiences in Sweden

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Rawah Zeidan; [2021]
    Keywords : Immigrant Muslim women; Identity; Identity intersections; Identification; Coping; Adaptation; Integration; Workplace culture; Identity work; Stereotyping; Stigmatization.;

    Abstract : In general, immigrants face various problems as they adjust to their new surroundings and begin a new life. The educated, employed Arabic immigrant Muslim women, (EEAIMW), live between two worlds: a Swedish world at work and an Arabic world at home. In this East-West dichotomy, they keep trying to find who they are and where they belong. READ MORE