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Dollhopf, Erica J. "Overall Congregational Vitality in the United Church of Christ: Predictors and Implications." Theology Today 78, no. 3 (October 2021): 225–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00405736211030249.
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This article examines the predictors of overall congregational vitality in the United Church of Christ (UCC), a US mainline Protestant denomination of approximately 5,000 churches and 800,000 members. This analysis is based on data from the UCC version of the Faith Communities Today survey, which surveyed all UCC congregations in early 2020. An overall congregational vitality scale was created from survey questions; factors associated with congregational vitality were tested to see which ones had a statistically significant relationship with a congregation's level of overall vitality. Aspects of congregations that were significantly associated with overall congregational vitality included the fit between the pastor and congregation, innovative worship, racial diversity, and total number of participants, while the percentage of young adults, contemporary worship, founding year of congregation, percentage change in worship attendance over the past five years, current financial health of congregation, and percentage of female participants did not influence overall congregational vitality. This research may be useful for congregations seeking to maintain or increase their vitality and for researchers interested in identifying the components and predictors of congregational vitality.
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Lefevor, G. Tyler, Jacqueline Y. Paiz, William-Michael Stone, Kiet D. Huynh, Hibah E. Virk, Sydney A. Sorrell, and Sierra E. Gage. "Homonegativity and the Black Church: Is Congregational Variation the Missing Link?" Counseling Psychologist 48, no. 6 (May 27, 2020): 826–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000020918558.
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The Black church in the United States has historically functioned as a bastion for civil rights; however, it may also be a source of pain and suffering for sexual minorities. To examine the influence of individual and congregational variables on attitudes toward same-sex sexuality in the Black church, we collected a sample of 219 participants from 15 randomly selected congregations. Results of three hierarchical linear models indicated that congregation- and individual-level variables emerged as equally important predictors of individuals’ attitudes toward same-sex sexuality. Individual-level religiousness and congregation-level education emerged as significant predictors of homonegativity. Our results suggest that congregations may play a role in enacting homonegative attitudes. We encourage counseling psychologists working with religious Black sexual minority clients to help clients consider characteristics of congregations (e.g., education) and individual religious practices (e.g., overzealous service attendance) that may signal homonegativity. We encourage further work examining the influence of congregational factors on congregants’ attitudes.
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Song. "Why Young Adult Believers Are Turning Away from Religions: With a Focus on Religious Congregations in Downtown Seoul." Religions 10, no. 9 (August 22, 2019): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10090497.
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The sociological study of youth religion is a growing field of research. This essay focuses on the rising number of young Korean adult believers from five downtown religious congregations in Seoul who are leaving their congregations due to increased cynicism and as they re-examine their religious faith. Based on a series of in-depth interviews (Focus Group Interviews (FGIs)) conducted with both young adult believers and priests, this paper examines several key factors including why young adult believers decide to leave their congregations, how their congregations react to the changing environment, and whether they can develop innovative approaches to deal with the emerging situation. Although each and every one of the congregations considers this phenomenon to be a serious issue, the solutions they have applied to retain and attract young adult believers in and to their faith have so far been ineffective. Nonetheless, it is likely that the reason behind the failure to keep more young adults in their faith and congregation may correlate to how competitive and innovative solutions provided by the congregational leadership are as they attempt to tackle the ongoing issue of retaining and attracting young adult congregational members.
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Huard, Samuel. "Decolonizing the convent: Transnationality, North–South domination and sisterhood among the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 49, no. 4 (April 7, 2020): 564–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008429820916157.
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Transnational congregations are ambiguous and complex social spaces as they are both divided (notably around the North–South axis) and united (around a same charism, a same founding figure). This article seeks to understand how sisters from Quebec and Central America belonging to the same transnational congregation construct their interpersonal relations, given that they live in a social field marked by both North–South domination and religious sisterhood. Based on two months of fieldwork within the congregation at the Order’s mother house in Quebec and at some of its mission houses in Honduras, it explores this issue through a brief presentation of the history of the congregation and an analysis of the discourses of the sisters interviewed. It concludes that the intra-congregational relationships are rooted in the continuous negotiation between the verticality of North–South domination and the horizontality of sisterhood. In the present context of vocational decline, the congregation faces two options: to decolonize or to remain trapped in contradictions that could stop it from adapting to its new reality.
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Thumma, Scott L. "A Portrait of the 2020 Faith Communities Today Study." Theology Today 78, no. 3 (October 2021): 212–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00405736211030233.
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This article offers an overview of the congregational landscape of the United States using the 2020 Faith Communities Today national key-informant survey. Offering representative results from 15,278 congregations in over 80 different denominations and 4 religious traditions, the article describes the characteristics of the average American congregation as well as significant variations within the results. Overall, this picture is one of diminished health and gradual decline. Following this summary picture, several key trends, including size disparities, aging memberships, generational changes, and a more diverse religious context, are discussed along with their implications for future congregational vitality. These trends further illustrate the challenges facing US faith communities presently. The article concludes with a focus on the most prominent characteristics of those faith communities within the survey that are spiritually vital and growing to highlight possible avenues of revitalization for the country's congregations. These results suggest that congregations need a combination of innovative leadership, a clear sense of mission and purpose, passionate and relevant worship, and an engaged membership willing to adapt and change to address an ever-evolving social and religious context.
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Turpin, Katherine. "Religious Education beyond Congregational Settings." Religions 9, no. 11 (November 7, 2018): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel9110348.
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Religious educational literature in the United States often presumes the congregation as the primary context for the work of faith formation. Given the reduction of institutional affiliation and participation in Christian congregations, this assumption makes approaches to religious education requiring an identity-bearing community of affiliation less relevant. Several emerging models of religious education eschew the community provided by formal religious institutions for more provisional, radically contextualized communal approaches to religious education. These approaches spark a different and important imagination for religious education beyond congregations, embedded in provisional communities of solidarity and engagement.
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Wakhid, Nur. "Tradisi Jamaahan Empat Puluh Hari Kajian Living Hadis Di Desa Jatipurus Kecamatan Poncowarno Kabupaten Kebumen." Jurnal Penelitian Agama 22, no. 1 (August 10, 2021): 21–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/jpa.v22i1.2021.pp21-47.
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The tradition of forty-five-day congregation was developed by the creativity of religious figures in Jatipurus Village as a persuasive approach in order to promote the sharia of congregational prayer within the society. To support the arguments of that tradition, they combined the hadith encouraging forty-day congregational prayer with the hadith commanding to increase worship during the sacred months (glorified months). The practice of this congregational prayer was established in one of the sacred months, it was arranged from the 20th of Dzulhijjah to the 30th of Muharram. There was a strong correlation and combination between the charismatic religious figures and the hadith. It was proven by the enthusiastic involvement of Jatipurus society during the forty-five-day congregation that was arranged annually; as a sequence, it was recognized as a tradition. The fundamental part of that tradition was tasyakuran in which it was engaged in the activities of tahlil, religious talks, prayers, and then it was ended by having meals together. That tradition was investigated and analyzed by implementing Karl Mannheim’s theory on the sociology of knowledge. The concentration of this research was related to three aspects of meaning. The first, the objective meaning: it showed that the people of Jatipurus believed that the tradition of forty-five-day congregation was a legacy of their predecessors. The second, the expression meaning: the society who joined the congregation believed that by consistently performing the forty-five-day congregation could save them from two things: the torment of the fire and hypocrisy. Finally, the third, the documentary meaning: they did not realize the implied meaning of the tradition, in which the implementation of the forty-five-day congregation was an expression of a religious culture.
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Steinman, Kenneth Jacob, and Athe Bambakidis. "Faith-Health Collaboration in the United States: Results from a Nationally Representative Study." American Journal of Health Promotion 22, no. 4 (March 2008): 256–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/061212152r.1.
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Purpose. Estimate the prevalence of and identify characteristics associated with religious congregations' collaboration with health agencies. Design. Cross-sectional analyses of self-report data from the National Congregations Study, a random sample of religious congregations generated from the 1998 General Social Survey. Setting. United States. Subjects. Key informants from 1236 congregations. Each respondent described a single congregation. Measures. Respondents provided open-ended descriptions of congregational programs. Researchers coded program descriptions by content (e.g., domestic violence) and whether the program involved collaboration with a secular agency. Other congregational characteristics (e.g., denomination) were measured by validated measures and linked census tract data. Results. Overall, 11.1% of congregations participated in faith-health collaboration (FHC). Logistic regression analyses found that FHC was more common among congregations with more members, with a small proportion of congregants under 35 years, and with a senior pastor with a graduate degree. Other effects were conditional; for instance, denominational differences varied depending on urban/suburban/rural location and the proportion of low-income members. Conclusion. This study provides the first national estimates of the prevalence of FHC. Such collaborative efforts may require different approaches in different areas. These results can help practitioners identify congregations that may be more willing to collaborate.
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Chen, Na, and Lizhu Fan. "Confucianism as an “Organized Religion”." Nova Religio 21, no. 1 (August 1, 2017): 5–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2017.21.1.5.
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This is an ethnographic study of the Confucian Congregation—an emerging religious group in Fujian Province, southeast China—with an account of the Congregation’s origin, belief and rituals, organization, and development strategy. The Congregation started with one person providing supernatural healings, and it developed into an “organized religion” with hundreds of members in seven franchised branches. Furthermore, by taking advantage of the contemporary trend of the revival of Confucianism in China, Congregation leaders were even able to achieve a seemingly impossible feat—a legitimate status for their “superstitious” group.
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Siberine, Kate Harmon, and Lisa Kimball. "Confirming Mentoring." Theology Today 76, no. 1 (April 2019): 38–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040573619826950.
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The Confirmation Project research clearly identified the impact of the faith-forming culture of a congregation on youth confirmation. When the congregational ecology is intentional about lifelong and life-wide faith formation, intergenerational relationships become a powerful means of faith transmission. This article explores the role and impact of mentoring in confirmation programs, a practice we found in 57 percent of the 3064 congregations surveyed. Drawing from social science research and building on biblical and theological foundations, we argue that Christian mentoring, a practice of modeling faith, provides mutual benefit for young people and their adult mentors, while also contributing to the spiritual health and relational vitality of congregations. Intergenerational mentoring at its best teaches confirmands, mentors, and congregants that they are not independent Christians, but part of an interdependent body of Christ.
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Carter, Erik W., and Thomas L. Boehm. "Religious and Spiritual Expressions of Young People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities 44, no. 1 (February 19, 2019): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1540796919828082.
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Although the importance and influence of spirituality in the lives of youth and young adults have garnered much attention, few studies have focused on the religious and spiritual lives of young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). We examined the congregational activities, spiritual practices, and strength of religious faith of 440 individuals with IDD (aged 13-21 years) as reported by their parents. Such activities and practices were described as having particular prominence, with most youth participating in multiple ways both in a local congregation and at home. However, participation patterns were individualized and strongly associated with the importance of faith in their lives. We offer recommendations for families, congregations, agencies, and researchers aimed at better understanding and supporting this often-overlooked dimension of the lives of youth with IDD.
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Kreis, Maria Clara, and Debra W. Moore. "The Phenomenon of Generational Cohort Differences in Life Satisfaction Reports." International Journal of Psychological Studies 14, no. 2 (March 30, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v14n2p1.
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The subjective well-being within society continues to be a focus in psychology, especially during the COVID 19 pandemic. The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious (LSSAWR) is designed to assess, across generations and congregations, the subjective well-being of Catholic Sisters worldwide. Sisters completing the LSSAWR online get a personal score report, and each congregation receives their LSSAWR scores in a Congregational Report (CR). The anonymous and confidential nature of gathering and reporting results, allows for honest feedback from Sisters about the current state of their community, and it provides insights for the potential planning of their preferred future. Additionally, CRs offer generational cohort comparisons across and within the domains that are reflective of various aspects as related to religious life. A multilevel model to account for clustering of Sisters within congregations was used to examine whether generational differences existed in LSSAWR scores. Results revealed significantly higher scores among elder cohorts as compared to younger cohorts but some differences in patterns among domain scores.
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Hendrawan, Arief, and Widyoningsih. "Gerakan Masyarakat Sehat Berbasis Masjid Sebagai Upaya Pengelolaan Mandiri Penyakit Kronik Degenaratif Di Desa Menganti Kecamatan Kesugihan Kabupaten Cilacap Tahun 2020." Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Al-Irsyad (JPMA) 2, no. 2 (December 17, 2020): 113–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.36760/jpma.v2i2.137.
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Increased lifestyle causes an increased risk of degenerative diseases. The costs incurred for the treatment of degenerative diseases are quite high. In order to reduce the cost burden, community participation is required in the community movement for healthy living. One of the efforts to increase community participation is through optimizing the role of the mosque as a medium for religious da'wah to become a social religious media. Community service was carried out from May 2020 to September 2020. The location of the service was at Nurul Huda Mosque, Tembok Hamlet, Kesugihan District, Cilacap Regency. The target of the activity is 18 people in the mosque congregation. The community service method is health education and health screening / examination of mosque congregations. The results obtained from the service program were in the form of an increase in the congregation's understanding of the role and function of the mosque as a social religious facility, an increase in the congregation's understanding of the preparation for the elderly to face old age, the congregation's understanding of degenerative diseases and an increase in understanding of the independent management of degenerative diseases
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Freeburg, Darin. "The openness of religious beliefs to the influence of external information." Journal of Information Science 44, no. 3 (January 18, 2017): 363–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551516687727.
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Religious beliefs have important and wide-reaching impacts on society. They also tend to be viewed as impervious to the influence of information external to a religious setting. Eight focus groups were held with attendees of two United Church of Christ congregations. Participants were asked about their core religious beliefs, and transcripts were qualitatively coded for the interplay of belief and information. Analysis found that beliefs that were focused on people, processes and events external to the congregation showed the characteristics of being more open to external information. Specifically, the breadth of these external beliefs allowed for a wider set of external information to be considered relevant; these beliefs were less biased, allowing participants to be more open to disconfirming information from outside the congregation; and these beliefs were held with less certainty, making it more likely that this disconfirming information would be attended to. This study provides suggestions for religious practitioners wishing to make the information behaviour of their organisations more open.
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Farida, Farida Farida. "Psikoterapi Islam Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus (Upaya Menumbuhkan Perilaku Sosial Keagamaan)." Esoterik 4, no. 2 (December 28, 2018): 298. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/esoterik.v4i2.4824.
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<p class="06IsiAbstrak">Children's Learning House (RBA) conducts Islamic psychotherapy in social religious activities such as congregational prayers. Children with special needs (ABK) can recognize it from the voice of the call to prayer, which then queues for ablution and the discipline of prayer in congregation. It trains order in religious activities along with friends and teachers (socio-religious). This study wanted to find out the kinds of Islamic psychotherapy for children with special needs in an effort to foster socio-religious behavior and what are the obstacles of Islamic psychotherapy for children with special needs in an effort to foster socio-religious behavior. The research method uses a qualitative approach, with data collection techniques using triangulation and analysis techniques using Spradley. The results of the study that children with special needs can grow socio-religious behavior with the voice of the call to prayer recognized to immediately queue for ablution and the discipline of prayer in congregation, although guided by teachers in the RBA and need family support to familiarize socio-religious behavior.</p>
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Glazier, Rebecca A. "Acting for God? Types and Motivations of Clergy Political Activity." Politics and Religion 11, no. 4 (April 25, 2018): 760–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048318000305.
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AbstractClergy members are often important political actors. Yet, scholars rarely distinguish among different types of clergy political activities. Here, I argue for three disaggregated categories of clergy political activity: personal, general congregation level, and election-specific congregation level. Data from two sources—the Cooperative Clergy Study and the Little Rock Congregations Study—demonstrate that important differences exist across these categories, with the majority of model variables significantly influencing different clergy political activitiesin different directions. For instance, a conservative ideology and affiliation with a Black Protestant church both negatively influence personal political activities, like donating to a campaign, while also positively influencing election-related political activities in the congregation, like distributing voter guides. Similarly, providential religious beliefs increase general congregation-level political activities, while decreasing personal and electoral activities. These relationships are obscured when political activity is considered in the aggregate, suggesting that clergy political activities are nuanced; different activities are driven by different motivations.
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KYU, PARK HYUNG. "A Street Congregation." Ecumenical Review 38, no. 1 (January 1986): 98–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1986.tb03405.x.
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Yang, Fenggang, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Arthur E. Farnsley II, and Tammy Adams. "Congregation and Community." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 37, no. 1 (March 1998): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1388042.
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Czimbalmos, Mercédesz Viktória. "Laws, doctrines and practice: a study of intermarriages and the ways they challenged the Jewish Community of Helsinki from 1930 to 1970." Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies 30, no. 1 (May 26, 2019): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.30752/nj.77260.
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The identities, customs and habits of religious congregations are tightly connected to the history of these congregations and to the specific religious tradition or denomination they consider themselves to be a part of. They are also shaped by the legislative and bureaucratic regulations and processes of the secular society that is surrounding them. The aim of this study is to further our knowledge of some of these aspects of Jewish life as they relate to the Jewish Community of Helsinki in the period 1930–70 by showcasing two examples that emerged as a result of the rising number of intermarriages in the congregation.
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Stolz, Jörg, and Christophe Monnot. "Does establishment suppress the political activities of religious congregations? Evidence from Switzerland." Politics and Religion 13, no. 1 (May 10, 2019): 28–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048319000105.
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AbstractEstablishment of churches is a central feature of the church-state regime in most European countries, and understanding the nature of such privileges is of key importance for both theoretical and political reasons. Yet, there is little empirical research on how establishment influences the organizational behavior of congregations. This article looks at this question by focusing on one relationship in one geographical context: we investigate whether establishment suppresses the political activities of congregations in Switzerland or not. We identify mechanisms that might lead establishment to suppress the political activities of congregations, and other mechanisms that might enhance such activities. We use representative National Congregation Study Data from Switzerland. Our results are unequivocal: establishment does not suppress the political activities of congregations. The level of establishment of the canton has no significant impact either on established congregations or on the religious field as a whole. Rather than establishment, important determinants of the political activities of congregations are religious tradition and income.
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Murti, Siti, and Heryanto Heryanto. "Program Shalat Subuh Berjamaah dan Kesadaran Beragama." Ascarya: Journal of Islamic Science, Culture, and Social Studies 2, no. 1 (January 9, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.53754/iscs.v2i1.178.
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This research is focused on the purpose of analyzing congregational prayer as a means of education to increase religious awareness in a person, in order to obtain an overview of the process, patterns and factors that influence it. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach. The method of determining the sample using purposive sampling technique, and key informants with snowball sampling technique, while the sample size is determined based on the completeness of the required information. Overall the number of participants involved as participant respondents was 15 people. Research data were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. Fajr prayer in congregation at the mosque as a place of research, because the Fajr prayer in congregation has its own advantages and challenges compared to other fardhu prayers. The results showed that the process of developing one's religious awareness lasts a lifetime. The family is the first educational institution that teaches religious awareness to someone from the time they are in the womb. Educational institutions, and community education are also factors that influence the increase in religious awareness. The process of developing religious awareness in a person is not the same (diverse) and is not always stable. Congregational prayer is seen as a means to increase religious awareness. In general, an established religious awareness is obtained after the age of 40 years, and the background of religious awareness in childhood also determines religious awareness as an adult.
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Stallsmith, Glenn. "Protestant Congregational Song in the Philippines: Localization through Translation and Hybridization." Religions 12, no. 9 (August 31, 2021): 708. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12090708.
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Historically, the language of Protestant congregational song in the Philippines was English, which was tied to that nation’s twentieth-century colonial history with the United States. The development of Filipino songs since the 1970s is linked to this legacy, but church musicians have found ways to localize their congregational singing through processes of translation and hybridization. Because translation of hymn texts from English has proven difficult for linguistic reasons, Papuri, a music group that produces original Tagalog-language worship music, bypasses these difficulties while relying heavily on American pop music styles. Word for the World is a Pentecostal congregation that embraces English-language songs as a part of their theology of presence, obviating the need for translation by singing in the original language. Day by Day Ministries, the third case study, is a congregation that translates beyond language texts, preparing indigenous Filipino cultural expressions for urban audiences by composing hybridized songs that merge pre-Hispanic and contemporary forms.
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Boehm, Thomas L., and Erik W. Carter. "Facets of Faith: Spirituality, Religiosity, and Parents of Individuals With Intellectual Disability." Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 57, no. 6 (December 1, 2019): 512–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-57.6.512.
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Abstract Although faith has particular prominence in the contemporary American landscape, its intersection with disability and families has received little attention. We examined the spiritual and religious lives of 530 parents and caregivers of family members who have intellectual disability. For most participants, faith had clear relevance and was reflected in their congregational participation, beliefs, practices, and strength of faith. Yet considerable diversity was apparent in the ways in which each was evidenced, which included a modest number of families for whom this was not a salient aspect of their lives. Most participants identified ways in which their spirituality and religious participation contributed to their well-being. However, access to social supports through a local congregation was more muted. We address implications for professionals who support these families and congregations who welcome them. We also offer recommendations for expanding the opportunities and supports parents and caregivers need to flourish in their faith.
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Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina, Peter Grajzl, A. Joseph Guse, and J. Taylor Smith. "Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving: Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 16, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 689–725. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2015-0131.
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Abstract Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by preferences for racial group affinity, that is, loyalty to one’s own racial group. To address endogeneity concerns, we combine a fixed effects estimation framework with an instrumental variable approach. We find robust evidence consistent with the racial group affinity motive: a decrease in the percent of whites in the local community is ceteris paribus associated with a decrease in the total giving receipts collected by predominantly white congregations. The magnitude of this effect does not vary with the extent of racial residential segregation in the community. The effect, however, is driven by the congregations in urban (as opposed to rural) communities. We offer a possible explanation for this result.
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Kanieski, Mary Ann, and Nancy T. Ammerman. "Congregation & Community." Review of Religious Research 39, no. 2 (December 1997): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3512185.
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Zust, Barbara L., Breanna Flicek Opdahl, Katie Siebert Moses, Courtney Noecker Schubert, and Jessica Timmerman. "10-Year Study of Christian Church Support for Domestic Violence Victims: 2005-2015." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36, no. 7-8 (March 17, 2021): 2959–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260521991271.
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Religious beliefs play a significant role in the lives of victims of domestic violence. Victims find strength in their faith and would rather endure the violence at all costs to keep a family or a marriage together, than to compromise their faith by leaving. This 10 –year study explored the climate of support for victims of domestic violence among Christian clergy and church members between 2005 and 2015. Using a convenience sample, surveys were sent out to congregations in the Upper Midwest in 2005 and 2015. The survey included demographics; two items measuring perception of domestic violence in the congregation and community; six Likert Scale items regarding agreement with statements concerning leaving an abusive marriage; four “Yes–No” items regarding the impact of faith in leaving, support of the congregation, community resources, and clergy as counselors. The clergy’s survey had the same questions plus open-ended questions about their skills in counseling victims, their congregation’s support for victims, community resources, and beliefs that could impact a victim’s choice in leaving. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, simple frequencies, and bivariate correlations. Narrative data were analyzed using content analysis. The results of this study indicated that change is slow. Members want their clergy to become more educated in counseling and in speaking about domestic violence from the pulpit. Clergy felt comfortable in making referrals for professional counseling, while the majority of members would prefer counseling with their pastor if they were in a violent relationship. Both clergy and members want to create a safe and supportive environment for victims/survivors of violent relationships. Findings from this study exemplify the need for pastors to remove the silence about domestic violence in their congregations and address the misunderstood social religious beliefs that may bind a victim to the violence.
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Mahan, Jeffrey H. "Congregation(s) in Digital Culture." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 9, no. 2 (October 23, 2020): 247–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10022.
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Abstract This essay draws on a particular example of Christian community in the urban American West to ask how digital culture is shifting the way religious identity, community, and leadership are being performed in cultures shaped by digital communication. It suggests more attention is needed to the complexity of organized religion and to the ways religious communities respond to media change. Further, that scholars of media, religion, and culture can help practitioners better understand their media-context and strategize within it.
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Nurtakyidah, Nurtakyidah. "STRATEGI GURU PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DALAM MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS SHALAT BERJAMAAH DI SDN 106162 MEDAN STATE KECAMATAN PERCUT SEI TUAN KABUPATEN DELI SERDANG." ANSIRU PAI : Pengembangan Profesi Guru Pendidikan Agama Islam 2, no. 2 (October 18, 2018): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.30821/ansiru.v2i2.2019.
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In general, the purpose of this study is to describe the strategy of Islamic Education teachers in improving the quality of prayer in congregation at SDN 106162 Medan Estate Percut Sei Tuan District Deli Serdang Regency. The research findings based on the observation instruments, interviews and documentation studies showed that: First, the process of congregational prayer was carried out with the guidance and direction of the Islamic Education teachers. Second, the coordination between the headmaster, the Islamic Education Teachers, and students’ parents in improving the quality of prayer in congregation at SDN 106162 Medan Estate Percut Sei Tuan District Deli Serdang Regency is through formal as well as informal meetings. Third, the approach used by the Islamic Education teachers in motivating students to improve the quality of prayer in congregation at SDN 106162 Medan Estate Percut Sei Tuan District Deli Serdang Regency is through religious, individual, and group approaches. Fourth, the obstacles and challenges faced by the Islamic Education teachers in improvingthe quality of prayer in congregation at SDN 106162 Medan Estate PercutSei Tuan District Deli Serdang Regency.
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Schwadel, Philip. "Social Class and Finding a Congregation: How Attendees are Introduced to Their Congregations." Review of Religious Research 54, no. 4 (June 14, 2012): 543–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13644-012-0073-2.
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Morris, Kenneth E., James F. Hopewell, and Barbara G. Wheeler. "Congregation: Stories and Structures." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27, no. 4 (December 1988): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1386966.
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McKendry-Smith, Emily. "Public Household, Private Congregation." Nova Religio 25, no. 3 (February 1, 2022): 32–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.25.3.32.
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Members of the Brahma Kumaris movement in Nepal relocate their religious practices away from traditional Hindu puja (worship directed toward images of deities) in households to meditation services held in the movement’s centers. Although this change involves a shift from the seemingly private household to the seemingly public congregation, household puja is “public” in many respects, while Brahma Kumaris group meditation is comparatively “private.” Other public spaces that offer relative privacy, such as restaurants or theaters, are often not available to Nepali women. The organization of Nepali households, the familiar nature of puja, and its performative aspects suggest that puja is “open and accessible”—and thus public—despite its location in the home. In contrast, the Brahma Kumaris are culturally alternative; their meditation is “isolated and inaccessible,” occurring in physically secluded sites, and some practices are “illegible” to other Nepalis, offering a kind of privacy. I suggest that public and private are best conceptualized as situational and temporary, not defining features of physical spaces.
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Champ, Judith F. "The Demographic Impact of Irish Immigration on Birmingham Catholicism 1800-1850." Studies in Church History 25 (1989): 233–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400008718.
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The Birmingham congregation suggests what Manchester Catholicism might have looked like if Irish immigration had been a fraction of what it was.’ This remark of John Bossy points in the direction of a different view of the impact of Irish migration on urban Catholic congregations in England from that which has become familiar. The relationship between Irish and English Catholic population growth in Birmingham before 1850 was not straightforward and led consequently to an interesting pattern of social and religious interaction. What Birmingham illustrates in the period up to 1850 is the effect of relatively modest Irish immigration into an English Catholic congregation already well advanced in prosperity and organization. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Birmingham Catholicism was not over whelmingly Irish, but the reception of the Irish had significant demographic and social effects on the congregation. These can be used to highlight and illustrate urban Catholic population structure, industrial enterprise, and quasi-parochial organization.
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Breytenbach, H. S. "Enkele kritiese opmerkinge oor die kategetiese beoefening binne die Ned Geref Kerk." Verbum et Ecclesia 12, no. 2 (July 18, 1991): 173–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v12i2.1035.
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Critical remarks on Religious Education in the Dutch Reformed Church A few statistics are mentioned in this article, and conclusions are drawn from them. Then faith-instruction in the Old and New Testaments is discussed. Religious education is first and foremost, the task of the parents, but officially also the task of the congregation. The congregation must learn to make religious education their own responsibility. In the congregation you learn to believe, and faith is stimulated. The author closes with ten critical statements in an attempt to show a way for religious education in the DRC.
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Minton, Gretchen E. "Civitas to Congregation." Augustinian Studies 30, no. 2 (1999): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/augstudies199930226.
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Ganiel, Gladys. "Is the Multiracial Congregation an Answer to the Problem of Race? Comparative Perspectives from South Africa and the USA." Journal of Religion in Africa 38, no. 3 (2008): 263–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006608x323478.
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AbstractThis paper uses a comparative perspective to analyze how multiracial congregations may contribute to racial reconciliation in South Africa. Drawing on the large-scale study of multiracial congregations in the USA by Emerson et al., it examines how they help transform antagonistic identities and make religious contributions to wider reconciliation processes. It compares the American research to an ethnographic study of a congregation in Cape Town, identifying cross-national patterns and South African distinctives, such as discourses about restitution, AIDS, inequality and women. The extent that multiracial congregations can contribute to reconciliation in South Africa is linked to the content of their worship and discourses, but especially to their ability to dismantle racially aligned power structures.
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Brown, Jennifer E., Valerie van Mulukom, Jonathan Jong, Fraser Watts, and Miguel Farias. "Exploring the relationship between church worship, social bonding and moral values." Archive for the Psychology of Religion 44, no. 1 (January 21, 2022): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00846724211070858.
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Religion is often understood to play a positive role in shaping moral attitudes among believers. We assessed the relationship between church members’ levels of felt connectedness to their respective congregations and perceived similarity in personal and congregational moral values, and whether there was a relationship between these and the amount of time spent in synchronous movement or singing during worship. The similarity between personal and perceived congregational moral importance (the importance assigned to different moral items) was correlated with feelings of closeness to one’s congregation but not by the amount of time spent in synchronous movement or singing. Differences in moral foundations scores and in moral importance of specific issues were found between different theological traditions. These findings demonstrate that, for churchgoers, there is a relationship between the use of music or synchronous movement in a church service and feelings of social bonding and there is also a relationship between the degree to which churchgoers identify with their church community and the degree to which they believe their priorities match those of their church. Furthermore, differences in theological tradition appear to be reflected in differences in moral values.
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Shibley, Mark A., and Nancy Tatom Ammerman. "Congregation and Community." Sociology of Religion 59, no. 1 (1998): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3711967.
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Izzul Haq, Muhammad. "Religious Engagement within Refugee Resettlement in Canada: Lessons to Learn." Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat: Media Pemikiran dan Dakwah Pembangunan 5, no. 2 (December 22, 2021): 457–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jpm.2021.052-08.
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In recent years, Canada has become a global leader in refugees and the top world leader in refugee resettlement. Direct participation by civil society, mainly dominated by the religious congregation and faith-based organizations in resettlement, has been the hallmark of Canada's private sponsorship program and a significant element in its success. This paper explores the evidence base of existing literature covering religious engagement within Canada's umbrella of refugee resettlement. Religious engagement is exemplified by the involvement of religious groups, congregations or communities in refugee resettlement which defines and shapes this policy, particularly in the private refugee sponsorship program. Despite challenges shadowing the process, religious engagement contributes to more outcomes given its potential social capital. It is predicted that religious groups will continue to be leading actors within Canada’s resettlement programs.
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Khadijah, Ute Lies Siti, Evi Novianti, and Rully Anwar. "SOCIAL MEDIA IN GUIDING AND MARKETING RELIGIOUS TOURISM: THE CASE OF UMRAH AND HAJJ SERVICES." Sosiohumaniora 24, no. 1 (March 21, 2022): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/sosiohumaniora.v24i1.36579.
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The media played a central role in communication between people, including religious matters. In religious tourism, there were scouting activities between the committee, ustadz, and congregation in the context of worship that was carried out well. The most prominent in this religious tourism was the pilgrimage and umrah. Thus, there were many Hajj and Umrah communities in a Muslim-majority country like Indonesia. This study aims to determine the role of social media in religious tourism guidance and marketing activities. This study used a micro-sociological analysis of qualitative data from activities at one of the Hajj and Umrah guidance centers in Bandung, Indonesia. Using social network analysis, it was found that social media’s role was essential to disseminate information between Hajj and Umrah guidance institutions and their congregations. The use of Facebook for the profile of the guidance institution was beneficial for pilgrims to understand the various opportunities and obstacles that exist in the Hajj/Umrah pilgrimage. WhatsApp was the most frequently used to communicate interactively with the congregation so the clerics and committees. Social media is quite helpful in marketing when the assembly connects with friends and family in telling their experiences when worshiping in Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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Dawson, Jane E. A. "‘Satan's bludy clawses’: how religious persecution, exile and radicalisation moulded British Protestant identities." Scottish Journal of Theology 71, no. 3 (August 2018): 267–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930618000327.
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AbstractThe study examines the radicalisation experienced by one group of religious exiles in the middle of the sixteenth century. The English-speaking congregation in Geneva formed in 1555 produced a Bible, metrical psalter and order of worship that shaped the Anglophone Reformed tradition. Study of the congregation's output shows how watching the martyrdoms in England generated a dynamic anger and fresh interpretations of persecution, tyranny and resistance. Conveyed by the worship texts, this radical legacy passed into the identities of Reformed Protestants in the British Isles, the Atlantic world and subsequently across the globe.
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Moulds, John D., and Marita P. McCabe. "Self-Acceptance in a Catholic Male Religious Congregation." Australian Psychologist 26, no. 3 (November 1991): 197–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050069108257250.
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Wieland, George M. "Discerning the Missio Dei in a Local Church’s Engagement with Its Community." Mission Studies 37, no. 1 (May 18, 2020): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341698.
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Abstract While theologies of missio Dei and their divergent missiological developments have been refined and contested in the academy over the past seven decades, the theoretical discussions and even the term itself are still far from commonplace in the life and discourse of many local congregations. Nonetheless, among such congregations there are examples of changing practice and new modes of local mission engagement that seem to be in alignment with aspects of a missio Dei orientation. In this article the experience of one congregation will be considered, asking whether a missio Dei perspective might be discerned in recent initiatives and developments in its engagement with its local community.
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Freeze, Tracy A. "Attachment to Church Congregation: Contributions to Well-Being over and above Social Support." Journal of Psychology and Theology 45, no. 4 (December 2017): 304–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164711704500405.
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Over the last three decades, research has established a strong link between attachment and well-being as well as social support and well-being. Past research found that attachment to church congregation predicted well-being over and above that predicted by attachment to God. However, it is unknown if attachment to church congregation predicts well-being over and above that predicted by social support. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if attachment to church congregation could explain a portion of the variance in negative affect, positive affect, satisfaction with life, and daily spiritual experiences, beyond that explained by religious social support and perceived social support. The data from 201 participants indicated that religious social support, perceived social support, and attachment to church congregation each predicted different aspects of well-being. Only negative affect was predicted by attachment to church congregation beyond that predicted by social support. More research is needed to better understand the relationship between attachment to church congregation, social support, and well-being.
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Merino, Stephen M. "Religious Involvement and Bridging Social Ties: The Role of Congregational Participation." Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry 1, no. 2 (August 23, 2019): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2019.vol1.no2.10.
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Research indicates that religious communities are important sites for the development of social resources, including social capital. Several studies suggest that religious involvement beyond worship services is a meaningful predictor of civic engagement that may foster bridging social capital, or ties that bridge social groups and cross lines of status and identity. This article explores the relationship between religious involvement and bridging social ties. Using nationally representative survey data and a subsample of individuals who are affiliated with one particular congregation, the article examines how religious service attendance and congregational participation (beyond services) are associated with frequency of interaction with someone from one of nine different social groups that vary along dimensions of social status and identity. Congregational participation beyond services positively predicts contact with several of the groups. In contrast, service attendance is either negatively related or not at all significantly related to interaction with someone from each of these nine different social groups.
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Pono, Mefibosed Radjah. "Evaluasi Terhadap Implementasi Pendidikan Kristiani dalam Konteks Gereja Kristen Sumba Jemaat Uma Manu." PROSIDING STT ERIKSON-TRITT 1, no. 1 (August 22, 2021): 66–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.53827/pros.v1i1.44.
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The church has the task of teaching the member of the congregation through Christian Education. Christian Education includes all teaching and learning activities in the church with the aim that members of the congregation can know God and through that knowledge, they can experience life renewal. The implementation of Christian Education must take into account the context in which the church lives. The approaching model in Christian Religious Education helps the church to carry out its duties according to the context. This article focuses on the description and analysis of the implementation of the Christian Religious Education approach model in the Christian Church of Sumba, Congregation Uma Manu and offers a Christian Education strategy that is appropriate to the context of the congregation. By using a qualitative approach in research through observation and in-depth interviews, it is concluded that the implementation of Christian Education with a religious instruction approach is appropriate for the context of this congregation, but strategic efforts are needed in its implementation.AbstrakGereja memiliki tugas melakukan pengajaran kepada warganya melalui Pendi-dikan Kristiani (PK). PK mencakup semua aktifitas belajar mengajar dalam gereja dengan tujuan agar warga jemaat dapat mengenal Allah dan melalui pengenalan itu, mereka dapat mengalami pembaruan hidup. Implementasi PK oleh gereja haruslah memperhatikan konteks di mana gereja itu hidup. Model pendekatan dalam PK menolong gereja untuk melakukan tugasnya sesuai dengan konteks. Artikel ini berfokus pada deskripsi dan analisa terhadap implementasi model pendekatan PK dalam Gereja Kristen Sumba Jemaat Uma Manu dan menawarkan strategi PK yang sesuai dengan konteks jemaat. Dengan meng-gunakan pendekatan kualitatif dalam penelitian melalui observasi dan wawancara mendalam disimpulkan bahwa implementasi PAK dengan pendekatan instruksi religius su-dah tepat bagi konteks jemaat ini, namun perlu adanya upaya strategis dalam penera-pannya.
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Jarudin, Jarudin, and Salma Salma. "Sumbayang Ampek Puluah as A Media of Religious Emansipation of Women Workers in Sijunjung." Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Mamangan 9, no. 1 (June 29, 2020): 48–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.22202/mamangan.v9i1.4065.
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This research analyzed the activities and understanding of Muslim women in the Sijunjung area accompanying Ramadan fasting in Sumbahyang Ampek Puluh activities. This religious activity was held in forty days throughout Ramadan Month where 10 days conducted before Ramadhan Month and 30 days in Ramadhan Month. Data were conducted toward observation of Sumbahyang Ampek Puluh activities in 7 Mosques in Sijunjung region during Ramadan Month in 2018 and interviews with several preachers and women of Sumbahyang Ampek Puluh members. Qualitative data analysis was conducted descriptively towards reduction, display and verification. The results show that Sumbahyang Ampek Puluh is dominantly followed by women. These women are at the age of menopause but economically it is still very productive. During the day they work in the fields, gardens, stalls and at night, they stay in the mosque to pray in congregation, pick up the congregational prayers that are left behind, read and study the Qur'an, study Fiqh, interpret the Qur'an and the problems of monotheism, never leave the prayer in congregation, stay away from immoral acts and try to get closer (taqarrub) to Allah like men.
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Danusiri, Danusiri. "Growing up the Religious Potential from Religious Community of Qadiriyah wa Naqsyabandiyah Dawe Kudus." Analisa 19, no. 1 (June 7, 2012): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18784/analisa.v19i1.153.
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<p><em>This research focused on the congregation of the Qadiriyah wa Naqsyabandiyah in Piji, Dawe, Kudus, particularly on how they make any effort to make their potentials of religious observance can maximally grow. In order to find out their efforts, the writer applied participatory observation and was involved in their daily lives. The data were then organized in certain way according to the theme previously deter- mined. In order to achieve the maximum of religious observance which they call as wu</em>ṣ<em>ūl dan wilāyah, the congregation of Qadiriyah wa Naqsyabandiyah use a series of rituals namely baiat (allegiance), zikir (remembrance), khataman ratib (complet- ing ratib), muraqabah, khalwat (seclusion), fida’, manaqib, and performing pilgrim- age to the grave of wali (muslim saints).</em></p>
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Khoimah, Khusnul. "AJARAN SOSIAL DAN IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP PERILAKU PENGIKUTNYA (STUDI KASUS TAREKAT NAQSYABANDIYAH KHOLODIYAH DI SOKARAJA BANYUMAS)." Jurnal Penelitian Agama 16, no. 1 (February 16, 2015): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/jpa.v16i1.2015.pp1-14.
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Abstract: The results of this study show that tarekat (congregations) should aim to increase the degree of Ihsan with various rituals that accompany it, in order to improve the moral and spiritual perfection. But in the era of globalization, many people think is not responsive to the advancement of age (anti-progress). In fact, the congregation became a place for salik to avoid the bustle of the world lives. Tarekat should hold social change and must be explained in three aspects, religious, social and even political. However, such an assumption does not occur in the Naqshbandi Kholidiyah Sokaraja Banyumas. This congregation is to have a social doctrine that affect the social behavior of his followers, both in the fields of religion, social, economic and political as explored in this study.
Keywords: Doctrine, Naqshbandi Kholidiyah Sokaraja, Social Behavior
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Uhder, Jens, Mark R. McMinn, Rodger K. Bufford, and Kathleen Gathercoal. "A Gratitude Intervention in a Christian Church Community." Journal of Psychology and Theology 45, no. 1 (March 2017): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164711704500104.
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This field experiment examined the effects of a gratefulness intervention in the context of a Christian church congregation. Two Christian congregations with comparable demographic and socio-economic characteristics were enrolled and assigned to the experimental and comparison conditions. The gratitude intervention was developed collaboratively with church leaders. Though within-subject effects were found for psychological well-being, spiritual well-being, life satisfaction, positive and negative affect, daily spiritual experiences, and favorable views of psychology and interdisciplinary collaboration, the comparison group showed similar increases to the intervention group. Thus, the effects of the gratitude intervention were supported within but not across groups. No significant changes occurred on measures of interpersonal engagement. This research represents the first quasi-experiment to study a gratitude intervention within a faith congregation. In spite of methodological limitations, it highlights the potential benefit of gratitude interventions designed in collaboration with clergy.
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Muttaqin, Hidayat, Khaerul Wahidin, Muhammad Azka Maulana, and Juju Juarsih. "PEMBERDAYAAN JAMAAH MASJID DAN PENANGGULANGAN DAMPAK PANDEMI COVID-19." An-Nufus 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2020): 58–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32534/annufus.v2i1.1651.
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This article discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the spiritual life of Muslims in the mosque environment. It cannot be avoided if the Corona outbreak also has a major impact on the religious sector, especially in mosques, so it needs a separate formula for dealing with it. Moreover, people in Indonesia are known to be religious and used to busy themselves massively in places of worship such as prayer rooms and mosques. While on the other hand, the crowd aspect is something that must be avoided to avoid contracting the Corona virus lately. For this reason, this study aims to determine how to empower mosque congregations in overcoming the impact of Covid 19; in this case the empowerment of congregation at the Baitul Mukhlisin Mosque in Pangkalan Village, Ciawigebang District, Kuningan, West Java. The method used in this research is an action research method, a combination of data collection and processing in an integrated manner. From the results of this study found a solution to the controversy that occurred among the congregation by building a synergy between DKM of the Baitul Mukhlisin Mosque and IREMA BM as well as religious leaders using a persuasive approach to foster a spirit of cooperation and produce mutual agreement.