Religious coping among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Non-Hispanic Whites

This study examined demographic predictors of attitudes regarding religious coping (i.e., prayer during stressful times and look to God for support, strength and guidance) within a national sample of African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and non-Hispanic Whites (National Survey of American Life). The findings demonstrate significant Black-White differences in attitudes regarding religious coping with higher endorsements of religious coping among African Americans and Black Caribbeans (Caribbean Blacks). Comparisons of African Americans and Black Caribbeans revealed both similar and divergent patterns of demographic effects. For both African Americans and Black Caribbeans, women were more likely to utilize religious coping than men and married respondents were more likely than never married respondents to report utilizing prayer when dealing with a stressful situation. Further, for both groups, higher levels of education were associated with lower endorsements of the importance of prayer in dealing with stressful situations. Among African Americans only, Southerners were more likely than respondents who resided in other regions to endorse religious coping. Among Black Caribbeans, those who emigrated from Haiti were more likely than Jamaicans to utilize religious coping when dealing with a stressful episode. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58064/1/20202_ftp.pd

Spirituality and Medicine: A Workshop for Medical Students and Residents

INTRODUCTION: Governing bodies for medical education recommend that spirituality and medicine be incorporated into training. AIM: To pilot a workshop on spirituality and medicine on a convenience sample of preclinical medical students and internal medicine residents and determine whether content was relevant to learners at different levels, whether preliminary evaluation was promising, and to generate hypotheses for future research. SETTING: Private medical school and university primary care internal medicine residency program, both in the Northeast. CURRICULUM DESCRIPTION: The authors designed and implemented a required 2-hour workshop for all second-year medical students and a separate required 1.5-hour workshop for all primary care internal medicine house staff. The workshops used multiple educational strategies including lecture, discussion, and role-play to address educational objectives. PROGRAM EVALUATION: Learners completed optional, anonymous pre and postworkshop surveys with six 5-point Likert-rated statements and space to cite the most useful part of the curriculum and their remaining questions. One hundred and thirty-seven learners participated and 100 completed both surveys. Medical students and residents had increased (all P≤.002): agreement regarding the appropriateness of inquiring about spiritual and religious beliefs in the medical encounter, their perceived competence in taking a spiritual history, and their perceived knowledge of available pastoral care resources. Medical students, but not residents, had an increase in their perceived comfort in working with hospital chaplains. DISCUSSION: A brief pilot workshop on spirituality and medicine had a modest effect in improving attitudes and perceived competence of both medical students and residents

EVS Trend File 1981-2017 – Sensitive Dataset

The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics, and society. Repeated every nine years in an increasing number of countries, the survey provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of citizens all over Europe. The EVS Trend File 1981-2017 is constructed from the five EVS waves and covers almost 40 years. In altogether 160 surveys, more than 224.000 respondents from 48 countries/regions were interviewed. It is based on the updated data of the EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (v.3.1.0) and the current EVS 2017 Integrated Dataset (v.5.0.0). For the EVS Trend File, a Restricted-Use File (ZA7504) is available in addition to the (factually anonymised) Scientific-Use File (ZA7503). The EVS Trend File – Sensitive Dataset (ZA7504) is provided as an add-on file. In addition to a small set of admin and protocol variables needed to merge with the SUF data, the Sensitive Dataset contains the following variables that could not be included in the scientific-use file due to their sensitive nature: W005_3 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner EVS 2008W005_3_01 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - spouse/partner EVS 2017W005_4 Job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner EVS 2008X035_3 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) – respondent EVS 1999, EVS 2008 X035_3_01 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - respondent EVS 2017X035_4 Job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) – respondent EVS 1999, EVS 2008 x048c_n3 Region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2006 EVS 2008X048J_N3 Region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2016 EVS 2017X049 Size of town (8 categories) EVS 2008, EVS 2017 Detailed information on the anonymization process in the EVS Trend File is provided in the EVS Trend File Variable Report

[[alternative]]台灣民間信仰企業化行銷的多種面向

博士[[abstract]]本論文係以臺灣民間信仰中的企業化行銷方式為研究對象，輔以管理科學方法參與研討的實證研究。除了介紹研究動機、目的及其架構以外，接著整理出以道、儒、釋三家為基礎的臺灣民間信仰中的寺廟機構中主要的經濟收益來源，分別為消災解厄儀式、慶典盛會、以及一般祈福活動等。此外則對於「宗教行銷」應用於台灣民間信仰內的各種類型做一初步區分，四種類型分別為廣告宣傳、建立網路社群、傳統儀式再詮釋、以及置入式行銷等當代行銷途徑。 本研究中首先結合兩大概念：高齡化社會以及宗教旅遊需求，對於進香團的旅遊形式，實際上多以高齡者為主參加的現象為研究重點。對於國內社區最常見的神祇－土地公廟間信徒的年度互訪，提出了「相互朝聖」的概念：有別於基督徒於耶路撒冷與伊斯蘭教徒至麥加其本質為「由外而內」的朝聖流動，相互朝聖行為則是一種採取對等型態，以互訪為主的宗教聯誼活動。 另外，本文以列為聯合國教科文組織「非物質文化遺產」之媽祖文化信仰為主題，探討以媽祖文化為主的廟會活動。以「經營績效」為觀點為闡釋，實際走訪數間媽祖廟宇委員會，透過管理科學方法制訂行銷資源投入的策略，除了使之達成到訪者數目以及相應捐獻收入增加，並透過問卷訪談方式，將參加廟會者的動機予以有效分類，並引伸出相關的討論結果，以及提出後續研究方向。[[abstract]]Based on the doctrines of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, Taiwanese folklore belief has existed for nearly four centuries, and has been simultaneously proven to be a spiritual sustenance for most of the population in Taiwan. Numerous services derived from folklore belief have recently become diverse marketing approaches; for example, discarding disaster or misfortune, carnival celebrations, and praying for blessings. Temples are attempting to broaden the believer base by using publicity and promotion, establishing an online community, redescribing ritual narratives, and engaging in placement marketing. Therefore, this research presents a discussion on the phenomenon of “religious marketing” from a management perspective. To investigate the temple believer base, this study analyzed the elderly pilgrimage tourists who participated in a community-initiated tour to experience a “mutual pilgrimage”. Furthermore, this study also conducted a survey at a mass religious gathering of a deity’s procession for classifying the four typologies of the tour participants according to their motivations. The conclusion involves future research directions, which are expected to be completed by developing continuity in religious management field research.[[tableofcontents]]CONTENTS CHINESE ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………….I ENGLISH ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………II CONTENTS………………………………………………………………………….III LIST OF TABLES…………………………………………………………………….V LIST OF FIGURES…………………………………………………………………..VI Chapter 1 Introduction…………………………………………………………….1 1.1 Motivation and objective………………………………………………………...1 1.2 Framework………………………………………………………………………3 1.3 Limitation………………………………………………………………………..4 Chapter 2 Folklore belief economic practices in Taiwan………………………...5 2.1 The main deities of Taoism-Buddhism based folklore belief……………………5 2.2 Major revenue source of Taiwanese temples…………………………………...11 2.3 Summary……………………………………………………………………….15 Chapter 3 Presentation of religious organization marketing in Taiwan……....16 3.1 Religious marketing with Taiwanese folklore belief characteristics..................16 3.2 Customer segmentations……………………………………………………….22 3.3 Summary……………………………………………………………………….23 Chapter 4 The role of mutual pilgrimage: Perspective from aging pilgrims….24 4.1 Religious tourism for the aging pilgrimage tourist…………………………….24 4.2 Mutual Pilgrimage……………………………………………………………...26 4.3 Planning a one-day pilgrimage tour by the SAW technique…………………...29 4.4 Survey and Results…………………………………………………….……….33 4.5 Discussions……………………………………………………………………..36 4.6 Findings………………………………………………………………………...38 Chapter 5 Religious-themed festival planning in Temple’s marketing………..39 5.1 Celebration enthusiastic participant, or festival reveler?....................................39 5.2 Mazu belief practices in Taiwan………………………………………………..41 5.3 Empirical process………………………………………………………………43 5.4 Discussion……………………………………………………………………...51 5.5 Findings………………………………………………………………………...53 Chapter 6 Conclusion and future intentions…………………………………….54 6.1 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………….54 6.2 Recommendations for further researches………………………………………55 References…………………………………………………………………………...57 Appendix…………………………………………………………………………….66 LIST OF TABLES Table 1-1 The research framework………………………………………………….4 Table 2-1 General conditions of Eastern religions in Taiwan of 2009…..................6 Table 2-2 The major deities and dedicated temple numbers in Taiwan……………11 Table 4-1 Raw data and each weighting of the four candidate affiliated temples…31 Table 4-2 Normalized matrix…………………………………………………………. 32 Table 4-3 The result matrix of average SAW…………………………………………. 32 Table 4-4 Respondents’ identity………………………………………………………34 Table 4-5 The percentage of the descriptive statistics for the group pilgrim recognitions………………………………………………………………… 35 Table 5-1 The input and output information of each Mazu temple…………………46 Table 5-2 DEA results of five Mazu temples’ festival performance in 2010…………46 Table 5-3 Advertising information……………………………………………………47 Table 5-4 The advertising budget result using multiple-objective programming…… 48 Table 5-5 The motivations of religious-based activity participants- factor analysis results………………………………………………………………………50 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1-1 The research framework…………………………………………………4 Figure 2-1 Inside a Land Deity temple located in northern Taiwan…………………7 Figure 2-2 The amulet of Mazu…………………………………………………8 Figure 2-3 The image of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva deep inside most Taiwanese household altars……………………………………………9 Figure 2-4 The safe driving amulet of Fu You Di Jun…………………10 Figure 2-5 Two representative deity-themed products: Holy Emperor Guan key ring (left) and Wen Chang Di Jun cell phone strap (right)………………13 Figure 2-6 A lucky money envelope borrowed from Mazu and the God of Wealth…14 Figure 3-1 An internet advertising of a Dharma practice TV program………………18 Figure 3-2 A temple’s annual lunar calendar lists their facebook address as shown below…………………………………………………………20 Figure 3-3 Online sortition service displayed in the upper left corner of the facebook page……………………………………………………………20 Figure 3-4 A registration announcement for worshipping the Big Dipper…………21 Figure 3-5 Two hot sale worship guide books “How do I ask question to the deity?” (Left); and “How the blessing works step by step” (Right)…22 Figure 4-1 The difference of the general and the mutual pattern of pilgrimage……28 Figure 5-1 Chaotian Temple located at Beigang in Yunlin………42 Figure 5-2 Lantern festival of Lungshan Temple located at Wanhua in Taipei, 2012…………42 Figure 5-3 Religious-based activity participant motivations…………………… 51[[note]]學號: 899620016, 學年度: 10