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ID:
188443
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Certain aspects of Vodoun, Benin’s primary indigenous religious tradition, have been perceived by some of that nation’s Christian believers as a menacing occult reality. Many Christians report states of acute psychological distress due to fears of the forces of Vodoun. This study analyzes the strategies employed by applied psychotherapeutic science professionals to diagnose and treat such cases, with an eye toward presenting a framework for the possible amelioration of clinical outcomes in comparable instances elsewhere.
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171191
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The aims of this study are to document a relevant array of perspectives on the use of genetic testing for the purposes of approving immigration to the state of Israel, and to consider the potential implications of such testing for the larger Jewish world. Further, this work analyzes the views of a number of prominent national figures — in the rabbinical, governmental, educational, and private sectors in Israel — on this subject. Finally, it provides a critical assessment of the varying contentious scenarios that may manifest themselves with regard to the claims of contested Jewish communities from the Global South whose genetic “evidence” is not as readily accessible as is that of Jews hailing from established centers of Jewish life.
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165234
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This article presents selections from ongoing qualitative research dealing with the influence of the Internet on the diffusion and promulgation of different iterations of Judaism (not all of them normative) among individuals and communities, mostly from the Beti-Fang demographic, in Cameroon and Gabon. It assesses the influence of specific Internet-derived content on the personal and communal lives of the participants by way of integrative and qualitative discourse analysis methods. Throughout this study the aim is to enumerate the ways in which globalized media technology has been instrumental in propagating a specifically Jewish mode of ethno-religious identity.
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