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Kinds of Faith Terms modified by Faith Selected AbstractsFAITH, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE,CRIMINOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 2 2003PAUL KNEPPER Recent interest on the part of criminologists in the "faith factor" has made possible a contemporary argument for faith-based interventions in crime prevention: if faith "works," then government should support faith-based initiatives because in doing so, government is not endorsing religion, but science. Drawing on the ideas of Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and others, this essay reviews this argument within the framework of the philosophy of social science. The discussion reviews such concepts of falsification, structural causality, objectivity, and evidence-based policy making to affirm the place of both faith and science in public life. [source] FAITH IN FREEDOM: LIBERTARIAN PRINCIPLES AND PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICESECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2006Bob Layson [source] MANAGERIALISM, FUNDAMENTALISM, AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY SCHOOLSEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 2 2006Chaya Herman The essay is based on a larger research project that explores the profound effects of the ideological and managerial restructuring process in Johannesburg's Jewish community schools, the broader context for which has been South Africa's transformation to democracy. Herman suggests that these two dynamics are synergetic forces and that their accumulated effect has the power to shift the discourse of the community toward ghettoization and toward the creation of a homogenous community founded on a narrowly defined common identity. [source] SENSE OF THE FAITHFUL: HOW AMERICAN CATHOLICS LIVE THEIR FAITH by Jerome P. BaggettJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 1 2010ANTHONY J. POGORELC No abstract is available for this article. [source] FINDING FAITH, LOSING FAITH: STORIES OF CONVERSION AND APOSTASY by Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD: WHAT THE LEAST RELIGIOUS NATIONS CAN TELL US ABOUT CONTENTMENT by Phil ZuckermanJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 2 2009RYAN T. CRAGUN No abstract is available for this article. [source] WOMEN, RELIGION, AND SPACE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND FAITH edited by Karen M. Morin and Jeanne Kay GuelkeJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 3 2008JENNIFER MCKINNEY No abstract is available for this article. [source] FAITH IN A HARD GROUND: ESSAYS ON RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS BY G.E.M. ANSCOMBENEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1034 2010MICHAEL PAKALUK First page of article [source] FINDING FAITH: THE SPIRITUAL QUEST OF THE POST-BOOMER GENERATION by Richard Flory and Donald E. MillerNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1028 2009KIERAN FLANAGAN No abstract is available for this article. [source] FAITH AND REASON: FRIENDS OR FOES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM?NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1008 2006$32 pbk., ATF Press, Adelaide, Edited by Anthony Fisher OP, Hayden Ramsay, pp. xxiv + 38 No abstract is available for this article. [source] PROCLAIMING AND PERFORMING THE GOSPEL: LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND ACTION IN POSTMODERN CHRISTIAN FAITHTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2009MARK G. NIXON First page of article [source] THE SERMON ON MOUNT MORIAH: FAITH AND THE SECRET IN THE GIFT OF DEATHTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2008ADAM KOTSKO This essay is an investigation of three attempts to think faith. I find my starting place in Jacques Derrida's The Gift of Death,1 one of the most important treatments of Christianity in Derrida's later thought, which was increasingly insistent in its engagement with religious questions up until his death in 2004. This reading of The Gift of Death will focus particularly on the question of secrecy and its relationship with faith, leading necessarily to an account of Derrida's reading of two of his primary references in this text: the second essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals2 and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.3 Rather than simply rendering a judgment on Derrida's reading, I will endeavor to read these texts together, extending (or expanding upon) Derrida's reading while questioning some of the positive formulations he makes in his own name , all the while remaining attentive to the gambles involved in thinking faith. [source] SOCIAL CAPITAL & FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONSTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2007CHRISTINE HEPWORTH This year is the twentieth anniversary of the germinal report ,Faith in the City' which first drew attention to the concerns of religious agencies whose remit is to tackle growing multiple deprivation in the UK. Since then, the role of faith-based organisations (FBOs) as mediators of welfare provision, urban regeneration and community development has attracted little attention from sociologists despite claims that such roles are becoming increasingly important. Successive UK governments have highlighted the potential of religious congregations in enhancing social capital and promoting social cohesion. The seminal work of Greg Smith (University of East London) emphasises this theme while other sociological literature in this area (mainly American, e.g., Putnam) argues that FBOs in the community provide a degree of social support and relationship structures that accumulate as social capital resources. This discussion paper is an attempt to open up the debate on the ways in which FBOs can develop and enhance the social capital value of local community groups. [source] RHETORIC OF FAITH AND PATTERNS OF PERSUASION IN BERKELEY'S ALCIPHRONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006COSTICA BRADATAN In this article I consider George Berkeley's Alciphron (1732) from the standpoint of the literary techniques and rhetorical procedures employed, as evidence for placing this composition within the tradition of Christian apologetic rhetoric. The argument develops around three main issues: 1) Berkeley's employment of the traditional rhetorical tool of attacking his opponents using their own weapons; 2) Berkeley's resort to a perennial tradition of pre-Christian or non-Christian wisdom, in order to validate his Christian-theistic claims; and 3) Berkeley's ,argument from utility' (considering the beneficial effects that accepting Christianity has had over the centuries on people's lives, making them better, wiser, happier, and more virtuous, as well as the social peace and harmony that living by Christian standards brings about , it is preferable to adopt the Christian faith than not). These three theses are discussed in light of the history of Christian apologetic rhetoric, with references to the works of St. Augustine, St. Justin Martyr, Origen, St. Thomas Aquinas and other Christian authors. [source] AQUINAS ON THE SELF-EVIDENCE OF THE ARTICLES OF FAITHTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2005M. V. Dougherty First page of article [source] FAITH AND REASON: PERSPECTIVES FROM MACINTYRE AND LONERGANTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2005Neil Ormerod First page of article [source] PAN-LATIN RADICAL HOSPITALITY: FAITH-BASED HIV/AIDS EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH BRONXANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Debra J. Pelto The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to have a devastating impact in the South Bronx, one of the most impoverished areas in the United States. Responding to this need is an Episcopalian HIV/AIDS social ministry operated by Misión San Juan Bautista. The ministry has grown from providing social support to infected and affected persons and increasing awareness of the disease, to designing and providing HIV, gender, and sexuality popular education programs for men and women. Misión San Juan Bautista's HIV/AIDS program makes an important contribution to the field of HIV/AIDS education through its development of a culturally and linguistically competent sexuality education program that fills a gap in the current approved list of HIV/AIDS education programs targeting Latino and Latina populations. Misión San Juan Bautista's HIV/AIDS initiatives utilize Freirean popular education methods. The programs take place among groups of community members, stimulating critical analyses of common cultural ideologies and practices around gender and sexuality and their effects on individuals, couples, families, and the community. This article examines how the small, Hispanic immigrant congregation and vestry collaborate with the vicar, volunteers, staff, consultants, and partners to serve clients from a range of Latin American countries with sexual health education. In so doing, we attempt to show how the congregation and vestry have internalized and put into practice concepts of liberation theology and radical hospitality. [source] A FAITH-BASED MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR SLUM DWELLERS IN BRAZILANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Sidney M. Greenfield This article describes a mental health and development program being carried out under the direction of a Comboni Missionary who is an ordained Roman Catholic priest from Italy and a medical doctor presently completing a Ph.D. in psychiatry in Brazil. It is based on a theoretical framework that integrates the cultural and religious backgrounds of migrants coming into the slums of Brazilian cities with a form of group therapy based on the assumptions of Liberation Theology and the teachings of Paulo Freire that was developed by Prof. Adalberto Barreto, a practicing Brazilian trained M.D.,psychiatrist with European Ph.D.s in psychiatry and anthropology. This unusual combination of anthropological insight combined with a unique approach to group psychotherapy, rooted in a humanistic approach to religion, has resulted in an extremely effective development program that is beginning to be applied in slum areas in other parts of Brazil and elsewhere. [source] DISPARATE POWER AND DISPARATE RESOURCES: COLLABORATION BETWEEN FAITH-BASED AND ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA FARMWORKERSANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Nolan Kline This article highlights the collaboration between an evangelical faith-based organization and secular activist organization to address the oral health needs of African American former farmworkers in Central Florida. Highlighting the FBO's evangelistic agenda, I discuss one FBO as a charitable health care provider filling a service gap within the broader health care system. In addition, I discuss the organizations' different levels of access to powerful agents of change, and the role of the anthropologist as an intermediary between the FBO and secular organization. This article first details the health concerns of the former farmworker population in Central Florida as they relate to farm labor and living in an environmentally harmful area. It then sheds light on systematic health care constraints in the United States that necessitate intervention from faith-based organizations and secular activist organizations. Last, this article provides a case study of how an anthropologist, acting as an intermediary to connect a faith-based group with an activist group, helped address one specific health need for former migrant farmworkers. [source] PRACTICING WHAT WE PREACH: THE POSSIBILITIES OF PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH WITH FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONSANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Katherine Lambert-Pennington This article examines the role and methodologies of the anthropologist as practitioner working in faith-based development initiatives. In particular, the author discusses attempts to use a participatory action research (PAR) model to examine the current programs, congregational participation, and future community development activities of Saint Andrew African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. The article examines how the FBO's traditional model of community development interfaced with the university research team's participatory approach and shaped the way that research was carried out. Additionally, the author discusses the varying ways that she, as an anthropologist, and her methods were positioned and the process of negotiating a mutually acceptable methodology. This FBO-university partnership revealed several key issues that have relevance for anthropologists engaged in work with FBOs and beyond. First, the model of faith-based community development shapes the possibilities of the work. Second, it shows how the anthropologist, and university partners more generally, are positioned by the organization, informs how and by whom the data is collected, what data is collected, and how it is used. Finally, there is no longer room for anthropologists to work alone; community issues and agency demands are complex and require interdisciplinary collaborative responses. [source] RESOURCE GUIDE FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS WORKING IN FAITH-BASED DEVELOPMENTANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Keri Vacanti Brondo Although faith-based organizations (FBOs) historically have played an important role in the provision of social services, the recent expansion of funding opportunities to support their work in tandem with the neoliberal imperative to privatize social services delivery have propelled a newfound scholarly focus on their activities. This resource guide provides a brief overview of both the expansion of funding sources generated from the United States and selections of anthropological research engagement with FBOs worldwide. [source] DIRECTLY INTERVENE OR CALL THE AUTHORITIES?CRIMINOLOGY, Issue 1 2007A STUDY OF FORMS OF NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL CONTROL WITHIN A SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK Informal social control is a central concept in the contemporary social disorganization literature, and much attention has been directed at examining community characteristics related to variation in the quantity of informal social control across communities. However, considerably less attention has been paid to variation in forms of informal social control. This study examines the extent to which neighborhood characteristics are related to residents'likelihood of using two different forms of informal social control: direct informal social control (i.e., through direct intervention) and indirect informal social control (i.e., through mobilizing formal authorities). Data for this study are based on surveys of residents in 66 neighborhoods. The analysis uses hierarchical modeling to examine whether neighborhood characteristics central to contemporary social disorganization theory have similar effects on these two forms of neighborhood social control. Findings indicate that social ties increase the likelihood of direct informal social control but not indirect informal social control, whereas social cohesion and trust decreases indirect informal social control but does not have a significant effect on direct informal social control. Faith in the police is not found to affect either form of informal social control. These findings are discussed in terms of current issues in contemporary social disorganization theory. [source] A Review of Udo Schnelle and Francis Watson on PaulDIALOG, Issue 1 2007David L. Balch Abstract:, Since E. P. Sanders introduced the "new perspective" on Paul, Lutherans have had to ask again: did Luther understand Paul on the Mosaic law? The two books reviewed here carry forward the discussion Sanders began. Udo Schnelle's Apostle Paul makes two methodological choices with dramatic consequences for understanding Paul's theology and letters: 1) Paul was in direct dialogue with the Greco-Roman culture of the cities where he preached the gospel and founded churches, and 2) Paul's Christology, ethics, and eschatology developed and changed in relation to the religious and political crises through which he struggled. Francis Watson's Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith makes an obvious but novel decision to focus on the five books of Moses as read by Paul in dialogue with other contemporary Jewish interpreters, arguing that Paul's view of the "law" is his counter-reading of the five books of Torah. Paul's hermeneutic exploits tensions and anomalies in the text of Torah itself, enabling him to emphasize God's promise, not the human deeds of scriptural heroes. [source] Operation Candor: Fear, Faith, and FlexibilityDIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Issue 5 2005Ira Chernus First page of article [source] Faith, hope and money: the Jesuits and the genesis of fundraising for education, 1550,1650*HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 214 2008Dame Olwen Hufton The Society of Jesus in the early modern period produced the largest network of schools the world had known and left an indelible mark on the structures of schooling in Europe into modern times. The distinctive schools were substantial and offered a mixture of civic humanism based on classical texts and theological studies but also, according to place, languages and mathematics, all offered without cost to parents. How was the money raised to build and sustain these institutions by a mendicant order? It is here argued that we see the first indications of the kind of fundraising activities practised by modern front-rank American universities, including building up significant friends, producing newsletters and publications, suppressing mention of failures and accentuating successes and involving a broad spectrum of influential people of both sexes in the expansion process. The author's intent is to argue for a more nuanced approach to the motives of donors than that current in recent historiography. [source] Defending the Faith through Education: The Catholic Case for Parental and Civil Rights in Victorian BritainHISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2008Eric G. Tenbus First page of article [source] The phenomenon of resilience in crisis care mental health cliniciansINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 2 2005Karen-leigh Edward ABSTRACT:, The purpose of this study, undertaken in 2003, was to explore the phenomenon of resilience as experienced by Australian crisis care mental health clinicians working in a highly demanding, complex, specialized and stressful environment. For the purpose of this research, the term ,resilience' was defined as the ability of an individual to bounce back from adversity and persevere through difficult times. The six participants for this study were drawn from Melbourne metropolitan mental health organizations , the disciplines of nursing, allied health and medicine. A number of themes were explicated from the participants' interview transcripts , Participants identified the experience of resilience through five exhaustive descriptions, which included: ,The team is a protective veneer to the stress of the work'; Sense of self; Faith and hope; Having insight; and Looking after yourself. These exhaustive descriptions were integrated into a fundamental structure of resilience for clinicians in this role. The study's findings have the potential to inform organizations in mental health to promote resilience in clinicians, with the potential to reduce the risk of burnout and hence staff attrition, and promote staff retention and occupational mental health. [source] The Reality of Faith in Theology: Studies on Karl Barth: Princeton,Kampen Consultation, 2005 , Edited by Bruce L. McCormack and Gerrit NevenINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2009James R.A. Merrick No abstract is available for this article. [source] Faith as Self-Understanding: Towards a Post-Barthian Appreciation of Rudolf BultmannINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2008BENJAMIN MYERS Following Barth's critique, contemporary theologians have argued that Bultmann's concept of faith as self-understanding undermines the reality of God and reduces theology to anthropology. This article argues that such arguments rest on a misreading of Bultmann. Far from anthropologizing theological knowledge, Bultmann identifies faith with self-understanding precisely in order to maintain the distinctiveness of God's reality. According to Bultmann, the locus of all true knowledge of God is the living christological event of divine,human encounter in which God is both related to and differentiated from humanity. This conception of God and faith remains relevant, and it offers valuable resources to theological reflection today. [source] Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic FaithINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Article first published online: 6 JAN 200 Books reviewed: Richard Lennan, Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic Faith. Reviewed by Nicholas M. Healy St John's University, New York [source] Mission Theology of the ChurchINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 1 2010Kirsteen Kim This article on the mission theology of the church, a personal perspective by the vice-moderator of CWME, draws on documentation produced by the commission and also responds to the Faith and Order document, The Nature and Mission of the Church. It is based on the trinitarian paradigm of mission referred to as missio Dei, which emphasizes the priority of God's sending activity in the world, by the Son and the Spirit, and the contingency of the church and its mission activities upon that. Therefore, it is concerned with the participation of the church in God's mission to and in the world, and from this perspective, has a particular interest with the actual, empirical church rather than the ideal church, recognizing that the church exists in many different forms in particular social, cultural, economic and political contexts. The article argues that the church is "missionary by its very nature". Both theologically and empirically, it is impossible to separate the church from mission. Indeed mission is the very life of the church and the church is missionary by its very nature the Spirit of Christ breathed into the disciples at the same time as he sent them into the world. The mission theology of the church as it has developed in ecumenical discussion over the 20th and early 21st centuries is discussed in terms of the relationship of the church to the three persons of the Trinity: as foretaste of the kingdom of God; as the body of Christ; and as a movement of the Spirit. The article shows that being in mission is to cross the usual boundaries and bring new perspectives from outside to bear, and this is a never-ending, enriching process. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||