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Journal articles on the topic "Epidemics Religious"
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Moilanen, Ulla, and Sofia Paasikivi. "Esihistoriallisten tartuntatautien ja epidemioiden tutkimusmahdollisuudet Suomessa." Ennen ja nyt: Historian tietosanomat 23, no. 2 (June 1, 2023): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.37449/ennenjanyt.125929.
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Epidemioiden historiallinen tutkimus painottaa usein kirjallisia lähteitä, mutta tartuntataudit ovat olleet ihmisten seuralaisina esihistoriallisista ajoista lähtien. Käsittelemme artikkelissa esihistoriallisten epidemioiden tutkimuskeinoja. Keskitymme muinaisten taudinaiheuttajien luonnontieteellisiin analyysimenetelmiin ja arkeologisessa aineistossa näkyviin epidemioiden epäsuoriin vaikutuksiin. Epidemioilla voi olla demografisia, poliittisia, sosiaalisia, uskonnollisia ja taloudellisia vaikutuksia, vaikka myös muut tekijät voivat laukaista kriisejä. Mahdollisista kriiseistä kertovat ilmiöt ovat usein monitulkintaisia, mutta minkä tahansa kriisiajanjakson tunnistaminen voi johtaa myös epidemian jäljille, sillä epidemiat liittyvät tyypillisesti muihin väestökriiseihin. Myös ilmastotekijät vaikuttavat tautien esiintymiseen. Esitämme, että arkeologisen aineiston monitieteisellä tutkimuksella voidaan tehdä päätelmiä kriisien kokonaisvaikutuksista ja että paras tapa esihistoriallisten epidemioiden tutkimukseen on kiinnittää huomiota sekä laajoihin että paikallisiin, pienimuotoisiin ilmiöihin ja arkeologisen aineiston piirteisiin monesta eri näkökulmasta. Historical research of epidemics often emphasises literary sources, but infectious diseases have accompanied humans since prehistoric times. This article discusses the ways prehistoric epidemics can be identified and studied. We focus on scientific analyses of ancient pathogens and the indirect impact of epidemics that may be visible in archaeological material. Epidemics can have demographic, political, social, religious and economic impacts, although other factors can also trigger similar crises. The phenomena are often complicated and challenging to identify and interpret. However, identifying any period of crisis in prehistory can also lead to the identification of an epidemic, since epidemics are typically linked to other population crises. Climate factors may also influence the emergence of diseases. The interdisciplinary study of archaeological data allows conclusions to be drawn about the overall impact of crises. Thus, the best way to study prehistoric epidemics is to focus on both large-scale and local, small-scale phenomena.
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Bjørnar Storfjell, J. "Epidemics." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 152, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2020.1769343.
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Василенко, L. Vasilenko, Губернова, and M. Gubernova. "Human Resources in the Context of Epidemic Social Processes." Management of the Personnel and Intellectual Resources in Russia 3, no. 1 (February 10, 2014): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2633.
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Issues of social epidemics and social diseases emergence in the context of new communications and contemporary global social-informational medium development
are discussed. serves as a basics for the analysis of new communications impact on human condition and social sphere is analyzed based on the
social self-organization, or social synergetics, theory as a methodological foundation. The global informational environment has accumulated enormous
collective intellect.
Ever-growing intellectual resources create principally new non-equilibrium environment for social communications. Non-equilibrium itself brings about and
prompts risks of mass natural phenomena and epidemic processes in the social medium. Self-organization is a spontaneous process going on without any
outer managerial efforts. Self-organization facilitates spontaneous growth of individuals’ mobility and creates potential for counteraction to public administration.
Mass diffusion of ideological or religious cults, movements, ideas, technological innovations, fashions, games of luck, alcohol and drug abuse — all
these have epidemic character. Specifics of social epidemic processes are highlighted: multivariability of destructive impact on the social and economic fabric
of society, relationship of social epidemics to economic crises, etc. Destructive epidemic processes can be stopped with social therapy methods and “vaccination”
against information viruses, including techniques fo nurturing moral and intellectual foundation of personality. M. Gladwell’s approach to counter social epidemics
is shown as promising (stickiness factor, the law of the few, force of circumstances).
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Oparin, O. А. "Religious paradigms of medieval medicine." Shidnoevropejskij zurnal vnutrisnoi ta simejnoi medicini 2022, no. 2 (2022): 58–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/internalmed2022.02.058.
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It is shown that in the Middle Ages the sanitary and epidemiological state was characterized by the absence of a sewerage and water supply system; complete unsanitary conditions, both in the city as a whole and in individual houses; lack of elementary rules of personal hygiene; a high percentage of infant mortality and almost unceasing epidemics. It is shown that medicine in the Middle Ages was based on the principles of scholasticism, which rejected in principle any scientific discoveries and opposed faith and science, which made its development impossible in principle. The methods of treatment used by medieval medicine were based on gross superstitions, which boiled down to belief in the healing power of amulets and talismans; attributing the influence on human health to the location of the stars; the role of conspiracies and the healing power of crushed stones and minerals. It has been established that the basis of medieval medicine was primarily the teachings and ideas of the medieval church about the immortality of the soul, saints, illness, education, in which rude pagan beliefs and philosophy prevailed, making not only impossible the development of medicine as such, but also leading to mass epidemics, unsanitary conditions, the growth of neuropsychiatric diseases, and decrease of the duration and quality of life of the population.
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AVCI, Halil Ersin. "British involvement and epidemic diseases during the 1908 – 1914 Hajj Pilgrimage: Evidence from British Documents." London Journal of Social Sciences, no. 5 (June 30, 2023): 10–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.31039/ljss.2023.5.94.
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This study examines the role of British involvement and the impact of epidemic diseases during the Hajj pilgrimage from 1908 to 1914. Drawing upon a comprehensive analysis of British documents, the research sheds light on the extent of British engagement and its repercussions on the spread and management of epidemics within the context of the Hajj. By exploring the documented evidence, including official reports and correspondence, this paper offers valuable insights into the British perspective and its influence on the dynamics of epidemic diseases during this critical period. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the historical interplay between colonial powers and the challenges posed by epidemic outbreaks during religious gatherings.
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El Sharabany, Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Abdel-Aal. "التدابير النبوية الحكيمة لمواجهة الأوبئة الحديثة كوفيد 19- أنموذجًا." HADIS 10, no. 20 (December 19, 2020): 610–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.53840/hadis.v10i20.136.
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The Prophetic Sunnah is a bound and overflowing with sound comprehensive measures to confront Plagues and Pandemics in line with modern scientific principles, it has combined general guidelines for primary prevention, sensory measures, and faithful guidelines in preventing epidemics and combating it, and this is a feature of the Sunnah al-nabawīyah to achieving mental health for the patient and others. The new Corona virus (Covid-19) has been classified as a global pandemic, so this research seeks to explain the measures that the Prophet’s Sunnah guided us to follow, to combat that epidemic and mitigate its effects, in a manner that confirms the importance of the role of the Prophet’s Sunnah, and clarifies its historical precedence and its distinction in facing the epidemics that threaten humanity in every time and place. Using The inductive method, descriptive and analytical, and conclusion. The most important results were that the Prophet’s Sunnah abounds in many general measures for primary prevention of epidemics by cutting their causes, from personal hygiene, frequent washing of hands well, covering utensils, not breathing and blowing in food and drink, and covering the face when sneezing, and coughing. It also included physical measures to combat epidemics of quarantine, individual isolation, social distancing, and urging treatment in as well as collecting religious instructions to maintain mental health, which contributes to the speedy recovery.
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Fakhriati, Fakhriati, and Choirul Fuad Yusuf. "Religious Traditional Treatment of Epidemics: A Legacy From Acehnese Manuscripts." Analisa: Journal of Social Science and Religion 5, no. 01 (July 29, 2020): 123–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18784/analisa.v5i1.1076.
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Traditional medication practice roots widely across region. A number of less complex traditional medicine practices also operated within small and sometimes isolated groups based largely on local experience since the very long time ago. Historical contribution of traditional medicine as one of complementary or alternative therapy is unquestionably recognized amongst the people of the world-wide. The Acehnese manuscripts written by ulamas, aligned from Muslim prior generations within a care giver environment cannot be denied its existence. One of the important subject contents is related to traditional medication applied since the very past time. This paper describes traditional medication written in the Acehnese manuscripts, of which particularly might be useful for handling the virus appeared today. With the use of philological and historical approach, uses text and contextual analysis, the paper highlights some findings, that the three Acehnese manuscripts -- Ar-Rahmah Fi at-Tibb wa Al-Hikmah, a manuscript of Teungku Nurdin, and a manuscript of Teungku Amir -- explain traditional medical treatment preventing the disease outbreak. Historically, the Acehnese used traditional medication therapy by means of consuming herbs beside staying as close as possible to religion and intensifying prayer to God. Due to its practical function as one of effective therapy and the valuable cultural legacy, the Acehnese manuscripts of traditional medication need any professional preservation, conservation, and reproduction for enriching the Nusantara’s civilization.
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Turenko, Vitalii, and Viktoriia Viktoriia. "CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE PANDEMIC PHENOMENON IN PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS." Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin 15, no. 1 (2020): 27–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2020.15.7.
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The article provides a comparative analysis of the pandemic discourse in such areas of human knowledge as philosophy, theology and academic religious studies. The philosophical discourse associated with the pandemic phenomenon aims to reflect on the relationship between the individual and the social, the personal and the political, freedom and non-freedom. Through the concept of "biopolitics" philosophy considers this concept as a factor of modern power, although at the same time the epidemic becomes the basis for seeing the Other in a special way and helping him in the current crisis situation. It has been established that in a theological context, a pandemic is not only God's punishment for the sins of ignorance, but also one of the potential options for self-improvement. Theological discourse examines not only the causes of pandemics in humanity, but also tries to understand its teleological nature in the life of every person. The situation of the pandemic creates a special direction in theology, which has already been referred to as "quarantine theology", "pandemic theology", "virus theology", or "coronavirus theology" in general. It was revealed that in academic religious studies, the phenomenon of a pandemic is revealed in the threat-challenge binary opposition. Accordingly, within the framework of this discourse, the study of the specifics of the implementation of the activities of religious organizations, the characteristics of state-confessional relations, as well as the possible consequences of epidemics is carried out. Also, religious understanding focuses not so much on the study of the causes of epidemics, diseases, etc., but focuses on highlighting the specifics of the functioning of religious organizations in such a crisis situation, the peculiarities of state-confessional relations during a pandemic, and disclosing potential consequences for the spiritual , and the laity.
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Leven, Karl-Heinz. "Pestpfeile, Miasma, Ansteckung." Evangelische Theologie 81, no. 5 (October 1, 2021): 374–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/evth-2021-810508.
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Abstract Epidemics were part of the ancient world; the Homeric Iliad begins with a pestilence that decisively shapes the further course of the plot. The sequence of historically attested epidemics ranges from the »Attic Plague« of 430 BCE to the »Antonine Plague« of the 2nd century to the pandemic of the »Justinianic Plague« of 541/42. Plagues are mentioned in numerous genera of ancient literature; in Hippocratic-Galenic medicine, the plague plays an important, yet peculiarly small role. The words »arrows of pestilence«, »miasma«, and »contagion« in the title stand for ancient theories of origin, which covered a wide range of metaphysicalreligious, natural history and empirical views and each conditioned different, also interacting, coping strategies of epidemics.
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Falade, Bankole. "Religious and Traditional Belief Systems Coexist and Compete with Science for Cultural Authority in West Africa." Cultures of Science 2, no. 1 (March 2019): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/209660831900200102.
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This study examines the coexistence of science with Christian, Islamic and African religious beliefs and its implications for science communication. Using Moscovici's social representations theory and focusing on his accommodation hypothesis, the paper draws from experiences in mental health care, vaccination controversies and viral epidemics using case studies from West Africa. It also draws similarities from historical vaccination controversies around the world and the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil. The paper shows that Moscovici's accommodation hypothesis of cognitive polyphasia better explains the coexistence of science and religious belief, which can, however, be double-edged. It also shows that coexistence can lead to a positive cross-referral system, as in the case of mental health in Ghana; can have initial negative outcomes, as in vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Cameroon; or can aid the spread and eventual containment of disease, as experienced during the Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa. Thus, while science remains a reference beacon in all controversies, its coexistence with religious belief can lead to an initial plunge in authority from which it eventually recovers. The choice of authority is also complicated by the dual role of some scientists as religious leaders and by previous untoward experiences with science, conspiracy theories and rumours about Western interventions in Africa.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epidemics Religious"
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Alkhurayyif, Saad A. "Third-Party Perception: Implications for Governance and Communication of Health Risks during the Umrah in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703424/.
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The current study projects the third-person perception phenomenon into the area of emergency management, specifically regarding risk communication in the context of religious gatherings. This study utilized the Umrah religious gathering in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, during summer 2019 as a case study (N = 257). This study aimed to investigate whether pilgrims perceive there was a greater effect of health information on others than on themselves. Survey results were translated and then coded and analyzed statistically using SPSS software. The findings indicated that third-person perception existed among pilgrims. Specifically, the perception of pilgrims that the influence of news about MERS-CoV, believed to be undesirable in its effect on themselves, was greater on others than on themselves was found statistically significant. Further, the findings indicated that the more pilgrims watched, listened to, or read news about MERS-CoV, the larger the effect of the news they perceived on themselves and others was. Thus, exposure to MERS-CoV news did not increase, but rather decreased the perception of difference between self and others. Also, the empirical findings indicated that pilgrims who were knowledgeable about MERS-CoV could relate to the coverage. Moreover, if pilgrims believed they were affected by MERS-CoV news, they believed that the MERS-CoV news had a similar or greater effect on other pilgrims. The findings indicated socio-demographics had a partial effect on third-person perception, Finally, the stronger the perceived effect of MERS-CoV news on oneself, the more likely these pilgrims were to take protective actions against the MERS-CoV epidemic. However, the third-person perception anticipated in the use of impersonal communication (pamphlets, television, radio, newspapers, Internet, social media, text message, health clinics, mosques messages, public events, and billboards) and of interpersonal communication (friends, family member, or others you know) was not found significant. Moreover, the perceived effects of MERS-CoV news on others did not show third-person perception regarding behavior intention or consequences. These findings have implications for risk communication and its governance during religious gatherings as well as for the prepared individuals to promote preparation for risk and actions toward risk mitigation.
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Muula, Adamson 1972 Thomas James C. "The role of religion among women in the HIV epidemic in Malawi." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2842.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 4, 2010). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health." Discipline: Epidemiology; Department/School: Public Health.
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Richardson, Brad K. "Combating Sexual Assault on Campus: What Secular Schools Can Learn from Religious Ones." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1113.
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In loco parentis, or “in place of the parent,” was the model that formerly governed the relationship between student and university. Student behavior on campus was closely monitored, as if each pupil were the son or daughter of the dean. The university was granted power to regulate the lives of its students closely, but was also charged with responsibility for their welfare. The cultural revolution of the 1960s changed this. Student rebellions aimed against any and all authority, coupled with judicial interference that severely hindered the university’s capacity to act as parent, effectively killed off the doctrine of in loco parentis. Now the relationship between university and student more closely resembles that of landlord and tenant.
These phenomena have coincided with the rise of the “campus rape epidemic,” or the notion that roughly 20 percent of women will be sexually assaulted during their college years. By comparing the sexual assault rate at schools that continue to practice in loco parentis to those that do not, this report will show that a return to the doctrine of university as parent can solve the problem of sexual assault on college campuses. In a survey of 657 colleges and universities around the nation, this paper will demonstrate that the sexual assault rate is lower at schools that attempt to regulate the lives of their students, such as with regard to alcohol and living arrangements. This is, in a sense, to state the obvious – or, at least, what was once obvious. Alcohol is involved in over half of all sexual assaults on campus, and 90 percent of sexual assaults occur in dorm rooms. By reducing the availability of alcohol on campus and by limiting the residence interactions between the sexes, the university can put an end to the campus rape epidemic.
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Brown, Hubert. "Back on track: the epidemic of violence among African-American youth in the Gresham Park Community." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2014. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2265.
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This project was designed to address the reduction and prevention of violence of African- American youth ages (12-16) within the Gresham Park Community of Decatur, Georgia. Moral development and character development are used interchangeably.
A curriculum was developed for youth and parents to assist them to help young people in reaching their potential regarding moral character to avoid the pitfalls of violence. The underlying principles of the study were moral character, spiritual formation, and personal responsibility. The major premise of the project was that if youth feel good about themselves and feel a connection to God, parents, school, and community, then youth will behave better, love themselves and God, and they will make better decisions to negotiate life in regards to nonviolence as opposed to violence.
The study was conducted at Flat Shoals United Methodist Church, and Cedar Grove High School. The total number of youth participating in this study is twenty two. Eight adults observed, supported, and occasionally gave verbal input. The training took place over a sixteen week period. This study indicates that there was a significant increase in the moral and character development among the youth.
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Wicker, Stafford J. "A local faith community responds to HIV/AIDS epidemic: An effective AIDS witness in Decatur, Georgia." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAIDP14657.
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The purpose and focus of this work is to seek practical means by which local African-American congregations can minister to persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), and to institute an educational awareness model which emphasizes prevention of the HIV virus.
The impetus for the study was a pastoral clinical education program which brought the researcher in contact with HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The study and resulting model for ministry is designed to inspire clergy and laity to institute sharing and caring ministries for PLWAs. Members of the faith community are challenged to respond to the Biblical mandate of Jesus Christ by developing compassionate outreach programs in their local communities.
Having studied the literature, the time has come to demonstrate the practice of this ministry issue at the Antioch African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.C.) in Decatur, Georgia.
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Kim, Shin Kwon. "Antiseptic religion : missionary medicine in 1885-1910 Korea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:08a03239-997c-495f-86f2-8454eab35fc3.
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The thesis explores the intersection between medicine and religion in the context of colonisation in Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I will focus on the work of medical missionaries from Europe and North America that pursued perfect cleanliness in body, mind and society, including total abstinence and spiritual cleanliness, by spreading biomedical concept of hygiene. One of the points that I will articulate is the ways in which medicine as a colonising force in its own right worked in the mission field to produce 'the docile bodies of people' in the Foucauldian sense. I will argue that what mission medicine in Korea utilised and relied on for its work was a new concept of cleanliness based on biomedical knowledge, the germ theory, rather than the power of colonisation. It was because mission medicine in Korea often worked without collaborating with direct colonial powers. In this sense, Protestant Christianity and biomedicine shared a common foundation in 'cleanliness.' Consequently, I will try to emphasise the multi-dimensional and multi-directional role of the use of cleanliness as an efficacious tool for control of the body. In relation to the historiography of medicine in Korea, I will argue that Confucianism served the social and cultural control of bodies as a medicalised form and that Christianity tried to replace it by providing new knowledge concerning body, disease, health, and cleanliness. In the same respect, I will explore the historical relationship between the germ theory and missionary medicine in Korea. The germ theories of disease were not simply a new etiology but also an effective cultural implement to change people's lives. Thus, the theories did not simply remain in the realm of medicine but were introduced, disseminated, and applied to all matters relating to the body, including its mental and spiritual aspects, through the concept of cleanliness.
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Silva, Paulo Emanuel. "AIDS e religiosidade: influências intersubjetivas aos acometidos pela epidemia." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2009. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4212.
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Nowadays, despite all the information related to several types of diseases, some of them are still cause for anxiety, fears and prejudices. In ancient leprosy and the plague and from the nineteenth century, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis, permeated the mentality and marked their bearers, as the meanings of illness were different than their symptoms, something similar is happening in the contemporary world as with respect to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). For many, the positivity for HIV understood here as the person with HIV is still synonymous with death, in this sense, the person is stimulated to profound reflections on life itself, if it was satisfactory trajectory of their life, if there were any emotional development, to create strong emotional bonds and permanent or if it could help other human beings. Thus the beliefs, opinions, personal values and group should be valued and considered in the dialogue both in format and content of the approaches in the field of health promotion. To assess the quality of life of HIV / AIDS in the city of João Pessoa / PB; investigate the influence of religiosity in the face of aids; check the influence of the "race" or color along religious factor in the way of coping positivity for HIV. This is a descriptive exploratory study with quantitative and qualitative approach, performed in a reference hospital in the city of João Pessoa. We interviewed 76 people, this sample was found that 50% of the study participants were male and 50% female, with age in both sexes ranging from 20 to over 60 years, was also found that most of the interviewees belong to black with little schooling. When you make a cross between the level of education and purchasing power can be seen that this, combined with low education increases the evidence about the pauperization of the epidemic. As for the religious profile was observed a high incidence among Catholics and evangelicals. The approach to the senses perceive in the study show that the diagnosis of AIDS appears to involve meanings in people, surprise and mental pain due to waiting an outcome uncertain, so much that they have no fear of the future in not to keep large prospects. This reinforces the need for interdisciplinary care of all HIV positive and not only with the patient of aids with the goal of building with them, other senses to life and even opportunities for them to feel involved in the process of overcoming the disease. From the religious approach found that the "face of aids" can no longer be a "face" of death, but a "face" of life, because people try to learn to live with the disease, making their day-to-day in a "battle" to find a constant sense of life, so to redeem the respect and dignity, and thus decimating the stigma of the epidemic caused in passing, that the form is almost isolated, without the right to live as other people . This fight will make the people who have the virus circulating in the blood, people are not seen as abnormal, so they will subjectfied bearer of their condition, and relegate aids as a hitch that will have to overcome in their journey of life .
Nos dias atuais, apesar de todas as informações inerentes aos mais diversos tipos de doenças, algumas delas ainda são motivos de angústia, receios e preconceitos. Na antiguidade, a lepra e a peste e, a partir do século XIX, o câncer, a sífilis e a tuberculose permeavam as mentalidades e marcavam seus portadores, uma vez que os significados das doenças iam além de seus diferentes sintomas. Algo semelhante vem ocorrendo no mundo contemporâneo no que diz respeito à Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida (AIDS). Para muitos, a soropositividade, entendida como a pessoa portadora do HIV, ainda é sinônimo de morte, nesse sentido, a pessoa é estimulada a profundas reflexões sobre a própria vida; se lhe foi satisfatória sua trajetória de vida, se houve algum desenvolvimento emocional, se pôde criar vínculos afetivos fortes e permanentes ou mesmo se pôde auxiliar a outros seres humanos. Portanto as crenças, opiniões, valores pessoais e de grupo devem ser valorizados no diálogo e considerados tanto no formato como no conteúdo das abordagens no campo da promoção da saúde. O estudo teve como objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade de vida dos portadores de HIV/aids na cidade de João Pessoa/PB; Investigar a influência da religiosidade no enfrentamento da aids; Verificar a influência da categoria raça /cor aliada ao fator religioso na forma de enfrentamento do soropositivo. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório descritivo com abordagem quanti-qualitativa, realizado em um hospital de referencia da cidade de João Pessoa. Foram entrevistadas 76 pessoas, nessa amostra foi constatado que 50% dos participantes do estudo são do sexo masculino e 50% do sexo feminino, com idade em ambos os sexos variando entre 20 e acima de 60 anos, também foi verificado que a maioria dos entrevistados pertencem a raça negra com pouco grau de instrução. Ao se fazer um cruzamento entre o grau de instrução e o poder aquisitivo observou-se que esse fato, aliado a baixa escolaridade reforça a evidência a respeito da pauperização da epidemia. Quanto ao perfil religioso observou-se uma alta incidência entre católicos e evangélicos. A aproximação com os sentidos percebidos no estudo mostram que o diagnóstico da aids se apresenta com significados que mobilizam, nos indivíduos, surpresa e dor psíquica, em virtude de esperarem um desfecho duvidoso, tanto que eles não apresentam medo do futuro, no sentido de não guardarem grandes perspectivas. Isso reforça a necessidade de uma assistência interdisciplinar entre todos os soropositivos e não apenas com o doente de aids com o objetivo de construir, com eles, outros sentidos para sua vida e, até mesmo, possibilidades para que eles se sintam participantes do processo de superação da doença. A partir do enfoque religioso constatouse que a cara da aids pode não mais ser uma cara da morte, mas uma cara da vida, porque as pessoas tentam aprender a viver com a doença, transformando seu dia-a-dia em uma batalha constante para encontrar um sentido de vida, para dessa forma resgatar o respeito e a dignidade, e, assim, dizimar os estigmas causados no transcurso da epidemia, que as fazem ficar quase que isolados, sem o direito de viver como as demais pessoas. Essa luta fará com que as pessoas que tem o vírus circulando no sangue não sejam vistas como pessoas anormais, dessa forma subjetivando a sua condição de portador e relegando a aids como mais um percalço que terão que ultrapassar em sua jornada de vida.
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Andersson, Daniel. "Döden väntar inte : Anpassningar av vanliga begravningar under Covid-19 pandemin." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-80152.
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Syftet med denna rapport är att undersöka om kristna församlingar tvingats göra kompromisser eller anpassa sina begravningsritualer under corona-pandemin. Tidigare forskning om hur begravningar har hanterats vid andra epidemier, så som aids-epidemin på 80- och 90-talet och kolera-epidemin i Guinea-Bissau 1994, samt hur begravningstraditionen har utvecklats i slutet av 1900-talet har fungerat som inspiration för vad som ska undersökas i denna rapport. För att få ett svar på rapportens syfte har en kvalitativ insamlingsmetod bestående av strukturerade intervjuer av religiösa samfund och begravningsbyråer använts för att sammanställa ett empiriskt material i form av en databas. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys har dessa intervjuer analyserats för att ge ett svar på rapportens frågeställning. Genom denna analys av intervjuer med fem kristna församlingar och två begravningsbyråer så går det att konstatera att anpassningar och kompromisser har varit nödvändiga när det kommer till hantering av avlidna och planering samt genomförande av begravningar. Rapporten visar att under pågående pandemi har man lyckats hitta lösningar för att kunna genomföra begravningar, utan att ritualerna påverkas nämnvärt.
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Mann, de Gracia Maria Eugenia. "Precursors in the epidemic years : the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and the construction of the Panama Canal." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20118.
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Les Filles de la Charité de Saint Vincent de Paul sont arrivées au Panama en 1875 comme des exilées politiques, après avoir été expulsées du Mexique par son gouvernement, dont le Congrès avait voté contre la présence de toutes les congrégations religieuses dans le pays l'année précédente. Cinq ans après leur installation dans l'isthme, la Compagnie Universelle du Canal Français - sous la direction de Ferdinand de Lesseps - a commencé les travaux de construction d'un canal qui permettrait la navigation entre les océans Atlantique et Pacifique. L'entreprise serait un échec irrémédiable pour une variété de raisons, parmi lesquelles la condition désastreuse de la santé publique, et le gouvernement des États-Unis reprendra le projet d'ingénierie colossale et l'assainissement du pays. Les Filles de la Charité, qui ont été engagées par la Compagnie Universelle du Canal comme infirmières pour soigner les patients dans leurs hôpitaux, resteraient dans l'isthme au long des années épidémiques et élargiraient leur mission dans la mesure où l'ordre religieux continue d'avoir une forte présence au sein de la société panaméenne à ce jour. Le but principal de ce travail est de analyser un épisode précédemment inconnu de l'histoire autrement bien documentée de la construction du Canal de Panama: la contribution que cette congrégation a fait à la profession naissante d’infirmière pendant les pires années de la propagation des maladies infectieuses dans l'isthme, provoquée par la surpopulation des ouvriers du canal et l'ignorance de la cause et le remède de maladies épidémiques. C’est bien connu que la construction du canal a été possible grâce à la lutte contre le paludisme et l'éradication de la fièvre jaune, les maladies qui ont décimé la population au cours des 25 premières années du projet ; que des changements radicaux dans les conditions de santé publique ont été accomplies par les mesures mises en œuvre par le médecin de l'armée américaine le colonel William Crawford Gorgas ; mais la présence des Filles de la Charité dans les hôpitaux publics et privés dans la ville de Panama et de Colón pendant ce temps, tendant aux patients et exécutant les ordres du Dr Gorgas, est resté caché pour la plupart des publications sur le sujet. Peut-être que la découverte la plus importante qui a surgi des sources recherchées pour ce travail, est que la troisième grande maladie infectieuse que les médecins et leurs assistants ont combattu au cours de ces années a été la syphilis, qui a atteint des proportions épidémiques et était incurable durant cette période aussi. Le conflit créé par les patients syphilitiques et le traitement dont ils avaient besoin et le fait qu'ils ont reçu efficacement ce traitement des sœurs, qui ont été interdites par les règles de leur propre congrégation d'avoir contact avec eux, a culminé par le retrait des religieuses des hôpitaux, et la sécularisation et la professionnalisation des soins infirmiers au Panama. Les raisons pour lesquelles les sœurs dispensaient des soins aux patients syphilitiques durant les trente-trois ans qu’ils ont servi dans les hôpitaux de la nation, malgré et contre leur propre règle, résident dans leur piété et leur spiritualité, dont les détails seront examinés tout au long de cette thèse. Les contradictions qui, apparemment, résident dans l'aide des sœurs, qui peuvent être perçues à tort comme l'ambiguïté morale, fournissent un sujet précieux d'étude pour l'histoire de la religion de la région. Il faut souligner qu'un facteur déterminant dans cet épisode était le manque de règles juridiques qui caractérisent la pratique de la médecine jusqu'à la deuxième décennie du 20e siècle dans le Nord et l'Amérique latine. Ainsi, cette étude peut également contribuer au débat contemporain très opportun sur l'éthique des professionnels de la santé, et sur l'effet que peut avoir leur empathie dans le traitement de la maladie d'un patientThe Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul arrived in Panama in 1875 as political exiles, after being expelled from Mexico by its Government, whose Congress had voted against the presence of all religious congregations in the country the previous year. Five years after their settling in the Isthmus, the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Français - under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps – began construction work for a canal that would allow navigation between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The enterprise would fail irretrievably for a variety of reasons, among them the disastrous condition of public health, and the United States Government would take over the colossal engineering project and the country’s sanitation. The Daughters of Charity, who were hired by the Compagnie Universelle to nurse patients in their hospitals, would remain in the Isthmus throughout the epidemic years and would expand their mission to the extent that the religious order continues to have a strong presence within Panamanian society to this day.The main purpose of this work is to disclose a previously unknown episode of the otherwise well documented history of the construction of the Panama Canal: the contribution that this congregation made to the incipient nursing profession during the worst years of the spread of infectious diseases in the Isthmus, provoked by the overcrowding of the canal workers, the backwardness of the region and the ignorance of the cause and cure of epidemic diseases. It is public knowledge that the construction of the canal was possible due to the control of malaria and the eradication of yellow fever, the illnesses that decimated the population during the first 25 years of the project; that radical changes in public health conditions were accomplished by the measures implemented by US Army doctor Colonel William Crawford Gorgas; but the presence of the Daughters of Charity in public and private hospitals in Panama City and Colón during this time, tending to patients and carrying out Dr Gorgas’ orders, has remained hidden for the most part from publications on the subject.Perhaps the most significant discovery surging from the sources researched for this work, is that the third great infectious disease that the doctors and their assistants fought during these years was syphilis, which reached epidemic proportions and was incurable during this period too. The conflict created by the syphilitic patients and the treatment they required and the fact that they effectively received this treatment from the sisters, who were forbidden by the rules of their own congregation to have contact with them, culminated by the withdrawal of the nuns from the hospitals, and the secularization and professionalization of nursing in Panama. The reasons why the sisters provided care to syphilitic patients during the thirty-three years they served in the nation’s hospitals, despite and against their own Rule, reside in their piety and their spirituality, details of which will be examined throughout this dissertation. The contradictions that seemingly dwelled in the sisters’ aid, which may be wrongly perceived as moral ambiguity, provide a valuable subject of study for the history of religion of the region.It must be stressed that a determining factor in this episode was the lack of legal regulations that characterized the practice of Medicine until the second decade of the 20th Century in North and Latin America. Thus, this study may also contribute to the very timely, contemporary debate on the ethics of health professionals, and on the effect that their empathy may have in the cure of a patient’s illness
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Maciel, Dhenis Silva. "Valei-me, São Sebastião: a epidemia de cólera morbo na vila de Maranguape (1862-1863)." www.teses.ufc.br, 2011. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2851.
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MACIEL, Dhenis Silva. Valei-me, São Sebastião: a epidemia de cólera morbo na vila de Maranguape (1862-1863). 2011. 184 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social, Fortaleza-CE, 2011.Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-25T12:16:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Dis_DSMaciel.pdf: 1344665 bytes, checksum: c4838fc2a4867f00f0ce216dc8b3015d (MD5)
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In this study we sought to understand the epidemic of cholera morbus in the village of Maranguape in 1862 and how this was understood by the individuals that comprised the medical and religious knowledge and the political uses that the epidemic has assumed from the look of liberal parties and conservative. We focus our attention on the actions of doctors who took part in the commission of public relief, the two priests who worked in the village during the illness and the action of public administrators. We aim to understand the disease and its meaning from a broader reading than was the village of Maranguape in 1862, the medical theories that guided and the answers given by religion. To bring out such a venture, we use varied character documents such as reports of the provincial president, letters sent by the commissioned doctors, letters of the priests and members of the chamber of the village, provincial laws, newspapers and chronicles.
No presente trabalho buscamos compreender a epidemia de cólera morbus na vila de Maranguape no ano de 1862 e como esta foi compreendida pelos sujeitos que compunham os saberes médico e religioso, bem como os usos políticos que a epidemia assumiu a partir do olhar dos partidos liberal e conservador. Focamos nosso olhar sobre as ações dos médicos que fizeram parte da comissão de socorros públicos, nos dois sacerdotes que atuaram na vila no período da doença e na ação dos administradores públicos. Objetivamos compreender a doença e seus significados a partir de uma leitura mais ampla do que era a vila de Maranguape no ano de 1862, das teorias médicas que norteavam e das respostas dadas pela religião. Para levarmos tal empreendimento a cabo, utilizamos documentos de caráter variado, tais como: relatórios de presidente de província, cartas enviadas pelos médicos comissionados, correspondências dos sacerdotes e dos membros da câmara da vila, leis provinciais, jornais e crônicas.
Books on the topic "Epidemics Religious"
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Ess, Josef van. Der Fehltritt des Gelehrten: Die "Pest von Emmaus" und ihre theologischen Nachspiele. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001.
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al-Ḥamīd, Mumtāz Saʻd ʻAbd. Fayrūs Kūrūnā wa-al-aḥkām al-fiqhīyah al-mutaʻalliqah bi-h. [Cairo]: Dār al-Nadwah Nāshirūn, 2021.
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Wood, Glenn G. The AIDS epidemic: Balancing compassion & justice. Portland, Or: Multnomah, 1990.
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Vinci, Stefano. Società, diritto e religione durante le epidemie: Problemi e prospettive. Napoli: Editoriale scientifica, 2022.
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Cioch, Adam. Epidemia manipulacji: Jak chronić przed religijną manipulacją siebie i bliskich. Warszawa: Letraprint, 2021.
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Gilbert, Morris, ed. Where Two Seas Met. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2004.
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Gilbert, Morris, ed. Where Two Seas Met: Cheney & Shiloh--The Inheritance #1. Minneapolis, Minn: Bethany House Publishers, 2001.
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Adeboye, Olufunke. Dispensing spiritual capital: Faith-based responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria. [Lagos]: University of Lagos, Faculty of Arts, 2007.
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Hoffman, Wendell W. AIDS ministry in the midst of an epidemic. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book House, 1990.
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van Asperen, Hanneke, and Lotte Jensen. Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725798.
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Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ever greater impacts on our lives. This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages. These creations reflect and shape how people learn and think about disasters that occur nearby or far away, both in time and space. The parallels between past and present underline how this book contributes to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters.
Book chapters on the topic "Epidemics Religious"
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Gimbel, H. "Smoking control and religion." In Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic, 939–41. London: Springer London, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0769-9_427.
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Crosby, M. H. "Religious influences on tobacco investments: The Judaeo-Christian perspective." In Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic, 938–39. London: Springer London, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0769-9_426.
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Di Branco, Marco. "Between Religion and Science. The Debate on the Concept of Contagion in the Medieval Islamic World and its Western Parallels." In Epidemics and Pandemics, 37–52. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.stph-eb.5.136406.
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Alao, Abiodun. "Religion, Human Security and Epidemics in Nigeria." In Religion, Public Health and Human Security in Nigeria, 37–75. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003332480-3.
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Newman, Richard. "Richard Allen, Black Aid Workers, and Civil Rights Lessons of the First Great Epidemic in the United States." In Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses, 142–47. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003214281-18.
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"Other Psychopathological Epidemics of a Religious Variety." In Suggestion and Its Role in Social Life, 99–106. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315130453-17.
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Rey, Terry. "Haitian Vodou." In The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions, 59–70. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190916961.013.5.
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Abstract This chapter looks into the origins of Haitian Vodou. It explains how Haitian Vodou emerged as a religion under some of the worst oppression in human history, transatlantic slavery, and colonialism. Despite the long history of racist, colonialist, and oppressive misrepresentations and misappropriations of Vodou, Haitian Vodou is a religion of great sophistication and astounding creativity that provides for its adherents all that one can ask of any religion. Vodou embodies the most inspirational stories in human religious history, which are African religions thriving in the Americas and the world history’s only successful national slave revolt. The chapter mentions how Vodou delivered its meaning, solace, and healing to the Caribbean nation as Haiti endured political upheaval, abject poverty, epidemics, and earthquakes.
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Kahn, Richard J. "Jeremiah Barker: Background, Education, and Writings." In Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820, 1–32. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0001.
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An overview of Barker’s life includes a brief genealogy of his family, his marriages and children, the Penobscot Expedition, and a description of the geographic, social, religious, economic, and demographic setting of Gorham and Portland, Maine, in the late 1700s. The provenance of the Barker manuscript is followed by a summary of its contents, including material from the diary of Portland’s Rev. Thomas Smith detailing epidemics and diseases from 1735 to 1780 and Barker’s own discussion of mental illness, consumption, and a wide assortment of ailments and issues such as epidemic fever, bloodletting, childbed fever, cancer, public health, consumption, yellow fever, and the “dangers of spirituous liquors.” The chapter concludes with Dr. Samuel Mitchill’s 1798 article on medical geography and its relationship to epidemics in the United States and Britain, comments on the American medical book trade, a list of Barker’s articles published in the first and second US medical journals, and comments on yellow fever in Maine.
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Ghajarjazi, Arash. "13 Fascistophilic Epidemics: Transpositions on the Shiite Medico-Religious Imagination." In Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism, 267–84. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781399505246-016.
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Dekker, Theo. "Coping with Epidemics in Early Modern Chronicles, The Low Countries, 1500–1850." In Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725798_ch10.
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Historians have hypothesised that the increase of medical knowledge in the early modern period led to a shift away from religious towards ‘scientific’ explanations and prophylactic measures. The writings of contemporaries belonging to the ‘middling’ ranks of society tell a different story. This chapter presents a long-term perspective on how 104 non-medical experts coped with and reflected upon epidemics in the Low Countries. By using the corpus of the Chronicling Novelty project, I demonstrate that the middling sort used both religious and non-religious practices side-by-side. I show that between 1500 and 1850, natural explanations became more detailed and complex, but they remained in service of, or subordinate to, divine explanations. Moreover, although the idea of an angry and vengeful God was never far away, the notion of a benevolent God gained prominence in the seventeenth century.
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"IMAGES OF ANTAGONISTS IN THE RELIGIOUS AND MYTHOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE YAKUTS." In Культура, наука, образование: проблемы и перспективы. Нижневартовский государственный университет, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36906/ksp-2021/36.
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Yakuts in religious beliefs and heroic epics (olonkho) retain the idea of the highest deities of the cult of ayyy, who act in the image and role of positive heroes together with the heroes of the middle world. The main antagonists are evil spirits (abaaahs) and restless souls (uor). They are also an integral part of Yakut traditionalism. The article presents the traditional classification of antagonistic images in religion and the heroic epic as the main components in the representation of the Yakuts (based on the materials of researchers of the XVIII–XX centuries). In modern society, culture (mass and elite) reflects and forms the idea and worldview of people about a particular image. Accordingly, the study presents images in the mass and elite culture of modern Yakuts, namely in the field of painting, theater and cinema. In the course of our work, we came to the conclusion that the images of the lower mythology (the lower world) are more stable than the images of the upper mythology (the upper world), and, accordingly, are the main actors in the folklore of the people. The traditional images of antagonists in the folklore and religion of the Yakuts appear to us as evil, cold, and also directing misfortunes, diseases, and epidemics at people.
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Khaled, Salma, Peter Haddad, Majid Al-Abdulla, Tarek Bellaj, Yousri Marzouk, Youssef Hasan, Ibrahim Al-Kaabi, et al. "Qatar - Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health in Pandemics (Q-LAMP)." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0287.
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Aims: Q-LAMP aims to identify risk factors and resilience factors for symptoms of psychiatric illness during the pandemic. Study strengths include the 1-year longitudinal design and the use of standardized instruments already available in English and Arabic. The results will increase understanding of the impact of the pandemic on mental health for better support of the population during the pandemic and in future epidemics. Until an effective vaccine is available or herd immunity is achieved, countries are likely to encounter repeated ‘waves’ of infection. The identification of at-risk groups for mental illness will inform the planning and delivery of individualized treatment including primary prevention. Methodology: Longitudinal online survey; SMS-based recruitment and social media platforms advertisements e.g. Facebook, Instagram; Online consent; Completion time for questionnaires: approx. 20 to 30 minute; Baseline questionnaire with follow up at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months; Study completion date: Sept. 2021. Inclusion criteria: Currently living in Qatar; Qatari residents: citizens and expatriates; Age 18 years; read Arabic or English (questionnaire and consent form available in both languages). Instruments: Sociodemographic questionnaire including personal and family experience of COVID-19 infection; Standard instruments to assess psychiatric morbidity including depression, anxiety and PTSD; research team-designed instruments to assess social impact of pandemic; standard questionnaires to assess resilience, personality, loneliness, religious beliefs and social networks. Results: The analysis was based on 181 observations. Approximately, 3.5% of the sample was from the sms-recruitment method. The sample of completed surveys consisted of 65.0% females and 35.0% males. Qatari respondents comprised 27.0% of the total sample, while 52% of the sample were married, 25% had Grade 12 or lower level of educational attainment, and 46.0% were unemployed. Covid-19 appears to have affected different aspects of people’s lives from personal health to living arrangements, employment, and health of family and friends. Approximately, 41% to 55% of those who responded to the survey perceived changes in their stress levels, mental health, and loneliness to be worse than before the pandemic. Additionally, the wide availability of information about the pandemic on the internet and social media was perceived as source of pandemic-related worries among members of the public. Conclusion: The continued provision of mental health service and educational campaigns about effective stress and mental health management is warranted.
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Narmanlıoğlu, Haldun, and Azime Ayşenur Çelimli. "A Critical Reading on the Visual Production of Infodemic." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.008.
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The problematic relationship between communication technologies and information is among the essential discussion topics of the academy. Concepts such as information bombardment, disinformation, and misinformation refer to incorrect, distorted, and corrupt information disseminated by means of communication. Unhealthy information and knowledge are seen as the biggest obstacle to the formation of a healthy public opinion. In the Covid 19 epidemic, which affects the whole world, the relationship between communication tools and information has come to the fore again. An "infodemic," which can be defined as "false, distorted information epidemic/pandemic," describes the truly distant information flowing to the public about the Covid 19 pandemic through different communication tools. On the other hand, today, visual images have become the most crucial source in disseminating information and the production of meaning. With digitalization, our daily life is shaped by an image-filled culture surrounded by artificial visuals more than ever before. The curiosity of this work is "How is infodemic produced through visual images?" It is based on the question. For this purpose, Twitter has been chosen as the research universe of important social networking sites. The study showed how the infodemia spread about Covid 19 vaccine in Turkey was produced visually on Twitter and analyzed with content analysis. The critical visual literacy method proposed by Douglas Kellner was adopted for analysis. In line with the suggestion of Kellner, the political, ideological, religious, and so on semantic load has been tried to be interpreted.
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Elízia Borges, Maria. "A proliferação dos cemitérios no Brasil: doenças epidêmicas e o registro de caricaturas." In Colóquio do Comitê Brasileiro de História da Arte. Comitê Brasileiro de História da Arte, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54575/cbha.40.04.
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A partir de 1870 tiveram início inúmeras polêmicas envolvendo a área médica, os políticos liberais, os maçons e os religiosos em torno da defesa da construção de cemitérios secularizados no Brasil. Durante a Primeira República, o fato foi consolidado e podemos considerar esse período como o da proliferação dos cemitérios. Outro fator preponderante para a propagação dessas construções foram as epidemias que ocorreram no país. Mencionamos neste artigo algumas delas: a de febre amarela (1850, Rio de Janeiro); a de cólera (1855, Bahia); a de varíola (1896); a de febre amarela (1892) e a gripe espanhola (1918 a 1919), que foram uma das causas dos primeiros sepultamentos no Cemitério da Consolação (SP,1858). As caricaturas de Ângelo Agostini (1843-1910) datadas de 1866 e 1876 representam esse momento histórico com certo humor e crítica às ações governamentais. A pandemia de Covid-19 surgida o ano passado (2019) e que ainda perdura, também passou a ser representada por caricaturistas segundo o mesmo princípio sarcástico que tanto condiz com a caricatura brasileira, conforme consta na obra de Latuff, de 2020.
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Ripoll, Santiago. Death and Funerary Practices in the Context of Epidemics: Upholding the Rights of Religious Minorities. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/creid.2020.001.
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This working paper explores the challenges that emerge when public health measures to mitigate the risk of infection during an epidemic infringe on the rights of religious communities to say a final farewell to their loved ones according to their custom. The paper aims to answer these questions: how does epidemic response in the context of death and burials frame and impact religious minority rights? And in turn, how do sectarian dynamics reposition themselves in the context of epidemic response?
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Kapoor Malhotra, Suchi, Marcella Vigneri, Nina Dela Cruz, Liangying Hou, and Howard White. The effectiveness of economic development interventions in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review. Centre for Excellence and Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL), April 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.51744/cswp9.
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Humanitarian crises affect communities and people across the world, causing high levels of mortality and malnutrition, leading to the spread of diseases epidemics and health emergencies, and arresting economic growth. Several causes may trigger a humanitarian crisis: political events, such as armed conflicts, coups, and ethnic and religious persecution, and environmental catastrophes, such as floods, earthquakes and typhoons. This review looks at economic development interventions, such as livelihoods programmes, market support programmes, and local area development projects. Economic development interventions support economic development in the area in which humanitarian emergencies occur. It focuses on interventions and programmes that aim to bridge the transition from emergency response to the development of local economic systems post-conflict and post-disaster in low- and middle-income countries.