scholarly journals How Relationship-Enhancing Transcendent Religious Experiences during Adversity Can Encourage Relational Meaning, Depth, Healing, and Action

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 519
Author(s):  
David C. Dollahite ◽  
Loren D. Marks ◽  
Alyssa Banford Witting ◽  
Ashley B. LeBaron ◽  
Kaity Pearl Young ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Spirituality And Health ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Systematic Group ◽  
Theory Research

Research on the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health suggests that religious involvement can help people deal with various kinds of adversity. Although there has been a great deal of work on the influence of religious involvement and religious and spiritual practices on physical, mental, and relational health, there exists a gap in the theoretical and empirical literature about the potential benefits of transcendent religious experiences on marriage and family relationships. We report some findings from a study of in-depth interviews with 198 religious American exemplar families from diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds. The religious-ethnic make-up of the sample included: African American Christian (13%), Asian Christian (12%), Catholic and Orthodox Christian (11%), White Evangelical Christian (12%), White Mainline Christian (10%), Latter-day Saint (LDS, Mormon), (14%), Jewish (16%), and Muslim (12%). Systematic group coding resulted in the findings that, during times of adversity, transcendent religious experiences reportedly (a) provided relational meaning, (b) increased relational depth, (c) healed relational hurt, and (d) encouraged relational action. We suggest implications for theory, research, clinical practice, and pastoral work.

scholarly journals The Emotional Nature of Birth Family Relationships for Care-experienced and Adopted Young People: A Longitudinal Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2097843
Author(s):  
Montserrat Fargas-Malet ◽  
Dominic McSherry
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Adoption Research ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Theory Research

Research focused on relationships and contact with birth family for children and young people who were separated from them as infants has rarely acknowledged the emotional and dynamic nature of such interactions. Curiosity has been dominant in adoption research. However, in our longitudinal study of young people who entered care at a young age, a range of other feelings and combination of feelings emerged in the youths’ narratives, including contentment and mixed feelings such as anger, affection, loss, guilt, or worry. Type of placement, that is, whether the young people had been adopted, lived with kinship foster carers or non-relative foster parents, did not determine their emotional reactions to their birth family. The young people’s perspectives and emotions often changed over time. In this article, we describe the young people’s emotional responses to birth family, and highlight implications for theory, research, and practice.

scholarly journals Essence of Love in Orthodoxy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 458-461
Author(s):  
O. Mayatskaya ◽  
V. Germanova
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Modern Family

The article analyzes the spiritual and moral field of Orthodox culture and religion, comprehends the essence of love in Orthodoxy, the deep Orthodox roots of marriage and family relations, as well as the problems of modern youth, the influence of Orthodox values on its spiritual formation. It is proved that today more than ever become relevant: patience, mutual understanding, respect, sacrifice, correct hierarchy, getting rid of egocentrism, the unity of spouses, becoming ‘one flesh’ at the level of spirit, soul and body, the idea that following these principles makes it possible to build a really strong family relationships, regardless of the transformational processes that devalue the modern family.

Marriage and Family Relationships

1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Rose M. Somerville ◽  
Richard H. Klemer
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Marriage And Family

Gender Roles in Marriage and the Family

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN ATKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

Gender role issues permeate nearly all aspects of marital and family life, and understanding the ways that women and men and girls and boys are different and similar will heighten our understanding of marriage and family relationships in general. Although theory and experience seem to insist that gender differences clearly exist, empirical evidence about similarities or differences—with few exceptions—is not so clear. In this article, I argue that these ambiguities can be traced in large part to conceptual and methodological issues, such as construct definitions, measurement techniques, and sampling, as well as inattention to the historical context. Throughout the article, I focus particularly on division of household labor to illustrate how attending more carefully to method, theory, and history can enlarge our understanding of how gender roles are played out in the family. In the last section of the article, I discuss ways in which gender role issues might be thought about and studied beyond the individual and the dyad to the family as a whole.

scholarly journals Development of Marriage and Family Relationships in the Northern Regions of Russia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Larisa A. Popova ◽  
Anastasiya S. Barashkova
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post War

The article deals with the mechanism of modern demographic development in Russia’s northern regions. The article studies the dynamics of marriage processes in the North in the post-war period, and reveals the current specifics of marriage and family relations. The authors analyze in more detail the situation in the two big northern republics: the Komi Republic and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). They identify factors that determined a significant decrease of marriage rate in the 1990s and the relative normalization of marital and family processes in recent years. The article outlines the main directions of demographic policies in the northern regions.

Lost in the USA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Gray White
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
American Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Promise Keepers ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Mass Gatherings ◽  
Million Man March ◽  
The Usa

“Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March” is a book about Americans’ search for personal tranquility at the turn of the twenty-first century. It argues that beneath the surface of prosperity and peace, ordinary Americans were struggling to adjust and adapt to the forces of postmodernity – immigration, multiculturalism, feminism, globalization, deindustrialization – which were radically changing the way Americans understood themselves and each other. Using the Promise Keepers (1991-2000), the Million Man March (1995), the Million Woman March (1997), the LGBT Marches (1993 and 2000), and the Million Mom March (2000) as a prism through which to analyze the era, “Lost in the USA” reveals the massive shifts occurring in American culture, shows how these shifts troubled many Americans, what they resolved to do about them, and how the forces of postmodernity transformed the identities of some Americans. It reveals that the mass gatherings of the 1990s were therapeutic places where people did not just express their identity but where they sought new identities. It shows that the mass gatherings reveal much about coalition building, interracial worship, parenting, and marriage and family relationships. Because its approach is historical it also addresses the continuing processes of millennialism, modernism and American identity formation.

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