Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Harris, Alana; Garnett, Jane

doi:10.1163/9789004260498

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“…This is what has been termed cultural or nominal Christianity. Within this framework, during the last two decades, academics have begun to study young people's relationship to religion and spirituality (Possamai 2009;Giordan 2010;Lippman and McIntosh 2010;Collins-Mayo 2010;Cusack 2011;Vincett et al 2014). According to the findings of some surveys and opinion polls, young people tend to be less religious compared to the previous generation, especially in the West (Ziebertz and Kay 2006;Ziebertz et al 2009;Bengtson 2013;Pew Research Center 2018).…”

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Young People and the Process of Secularisation in Contemporary Greek Society

Σακελλαρίου

2022

Religions

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During the last twenty years, a significant shift has taken place in Greek society. On the one hand, the religious context has been altered due to the arrival of immigrants and refugees with different religious backgrounds. On the other hand, young people seem to distance themselves from religion and the Orthodox Church in various ways. With the above in mind, this article will try to answer a number of questions: Are young people in contemporary Greek society religious? What do they think about the role of the Orthodox Church? How do they value the Church’s public discourse on issues such as immigration, gender equality, and homosexuality? Where do they stand on state–Church relations? How close are they to the Orthodox Church? Based on theoretical discussions about secularisation, secularism, and the post-secular, this article builds upon quantitative and qualitative research on young people from 17 to 35 years of age. The main argument is that young people seem to gradually move away from religion and the Orthodox Church, while in some cases, religion becomes a private matter; this indicates that there seems to be a process of secularisation underway, although further research is needed.

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Young People and the Process of Secularisation in Contemporary Greek Society

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2022

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“…We follow the commonplace understanding of prayer as a connection between humans and the divine or another being or energy life force, which can be shared among and between those religious and nonreligious. It can also be considered an approach to mindfulness, meditation, and personal meaningfulness that emphasizes the inner world of the individual in relation to the external (Giordan & Woodhead, 2013Reimer-Kirkham, Sharma, Brown, et al, 2020;. In designing the project, we anticipated that prayer might not always be welcome.…”

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The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity‐oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge

Reimer‐Kirkham,

Sharma

2023

Nursing Inquiry

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Although spiritual practices such as prayer are engaged by many to support well‐being and coping, little research has addressed nurses and prayer, whether for themselves or facilitating patients' use of prayer. We conducted a qualitative study to explore how prayer (as a proxy for spirituality and religion) is manifest—whether embraced, tolerated, or resisted—in healthcare, and how institutional and social contexts shape how prayer is understood and enacted. This paper analyzes interviews with 21 nurses in Vancouver and London as a subset of the larger study. Findings show that nurses' kindness can buffer the loneliness and exclusion of ill health and in this way support the “spirit” of those in their care. Spiritual support for patients rarely incorporated prayer, in part because of ambiguities about permission and professional boundaries. Nurses' engagement with prayer and spiritual support could become a politicized site of religious accommodation, where imposition, religious illiteracy, and racism could derail person‐centered care and consequently enact social exclusion. Spiritual support (including prayer) sustained nurses themselves. We propose that nursing's equity‐oriented knowledge encompass spirituality and religion as sites of exclusion and inclusion. Nurses must be supported to move past religious illiteracy to provide culturally and spiritually sensitive care with clarity about professional boundaries and collaborative models of spiritual care.

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Christian Prayer and the Local Congregation: A Social Analysis of Individual Prayer Petitions

Lukenbill

Young

2020

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Cited by 4 publications

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Young People and the Process of Secularisation in Contemporary Greek Society

Young People and the Process of Secularisation in Contemporary Greek Society

The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity‐oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge

Christian Prayer and the Local Congregation: A Social Analysis of Individual Prayer Petitions

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