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This dissertation examines the relationship between church-based medicine and the state in Ethiopia over the course of the 20th century. Church-based healing, associated with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, can be traced back to the 16th century. It involved a rich complex of pra…

Besides the Funeral Parlor, the Church is the place where people run to in times of death for funeral services, burials, celebrations of life and homegoing, memorial services, anniversaries. The Church has played these important roles for its members and the larger community ove…

The purpose of this study was to apply key elements of the social marketing framework to the design and implementation of (a) a church-based, culturally sensitive, web-based smoking cessation program for childbearing-aged African American women and (b) a non-church-based, cultur…