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Despite an identified need for treatment in this population, there continues to be a significant underutilization of formal mental health services among Muslim youth and families in the United States, due to a range of cultural, religious, and socioeconomic barriers. Consequentl…

The study addressed the problem of high relapse rates among Malay drug addicts in Singapore. It compared successfully rehabilitated with relapsed ex-addicts. Four groups of factors (familial, individual, religious, and social support) were selected as predictor variables. Likert…

This thesis investigates the activities of the Majlisul Islamil A`la Indonesia (MIAI), an Islamic federative organization of pre-independent Indonesia, elaborating in particular on the federation's socio-religious and political stance. Operating for only six years (1937-1943), t…

Religious poetry raises fundamental questions not only about the nature of the religious, but about the nature of poetry. The central argument of this essay is that what makes a poem “religious” is not its content or meaning but its “way of meaning.” Just as religion is fundamen…

The advent of Ahmad Kasravī (1890–1946) and his Pākdīnī movement represents one of the most important developments in the history of socio-religious thought in Iran in the Pahlavī era (1925–1979). It was one of the greatest home-grown ideological challenges to Shi'ism and Shi'i …

This dissertation examines Islamic collective action and patterns of mobilization in Jordan. Some Islamic movement groups mobilize through formal, grassroots organizations in civil society, while others operate through informal social networks. I argue that the differing pattern…

Few doubt the significance of Emil Nolde among the artists in Germany now loosely called Expressionists. From 1909 until his death in 1956, he painted over fifty pictures with religious subjects. Arguably, they represent the premier accomplishment of a long and prodigious career…

The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of cult membership, by examining the "before, during, and after" experiences of former members. Five male and five female former long-term members of bible-based religious cults were interviewed. The transcripts of the…

The event under investigation is the emergence of armed conflicts in the post-Cold War era (post-1990) in states from different civilizations and religions. A sample of 158 independent states with populations of 500,000 or more is used to analyze the transition to armed conflict…

The primary aim of this study was to investigate clinical, religious, social, and spiritual factors that contribute to a quest orientation to religiosity in adolescents. Quest is a less structured, more open-ended and questioning approach to religion, and an inherently meaningfu…

Though contemporary Israeli fiction is still dominated by secular writers, an increasing number of writers hailing from the religious community have made their presence felt over the last forty years. This study aims to identify a representative group of the most gifted among th…

Internal object representations of God were compared between Christians, Jews and Muslims, and between intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientations. Within these religious groups, God representations were compared to self and father representations, and between fundamentalists…

This dissertation argues that thick faith transforms character because it demands an embodied leap into an alternative narrative world. Illustrated with interviews of converts to Islam, Nation of Islam, and Christianity who were once extremely violent and destructive, it argues …

While religion and corrections are historically intertwined and share a common concern with moral codes of behavior, their interaction in the context of prison and parole is not very well understood. Through interviews with men and women who converted to a new faith or re-commit…

Hannah Arendt's discourse on forgiveness in The Human Condition is the catalyst for this dissertation. The most important of her ideas for this study are the following: (1) Without forgiveness in the political realm, we would get but one chance. (2) Only forgiveness frees the of…

There is a hazard in using statistically derived means when dealing with data that essentially involve self-reportage. Using those to come to diagnostic conclusions based on data normed on a dominant population has an added potential for bias. This is especially true where those…

This thesis explores the conversion experiences of the Buda, an ethnic Sasak minority in northern Lombok-Indonesia, long primitivized by dominant Sasak Muslim groups for practicing non-religious rituals prior to their formal conversion to Buddhism at the outset of the New Order …

This study explores the ideological complexity in Modern Orthodoxy and the factors involved in healthy religious development of Modern Orthodox adolescents. The purpose of this study is to look at the relationship between religious action and belief amongst Modern Orthodox adole…

This thesis looks at religious school funding in Ontario from both a legal and policy perspective. Specifically, this thesis argues that religious minority communities are constitutionally entitled to government support for religiously based independent schools. This entitlement…

Since 9-11 there has been increased attention toward the Muslim community in the United States. Researchers report that hate crimes and discrimination against Muslims increased in the United States following 9-11. These incidents have been explained through the construct called …