Kept Together by Faith: Confession and Forgiveness among American Catholic and Orthodox Christian Families

White, Thomas; Chelladurai, Joe M.; Monroe, Pamela; Garand, James C.; Dollahite, David C.; Marks, Loren D.

doi:10.1080/01494929.2018.1469573

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“…Three notable exceptions include a small qualitative study of six Muslim men that found that peer support and guidance, as well as internal reflection and self-control, enabled repentant change (Fachitiandi & Permadi, 2020). In addition, confession and experiences of divine forgiveness often occur during communal worship and play an important transformational role (Abernethy et al, 2016; White et al, 2018), and participation in pilgrimages may provide space for meaningful repentance (Gothóni, 2000).…”

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“…Although there are differences regarding its salvific importance and associated rituals and practices (e.g. manner of confession; see White et al, 2018), the overall processes of repentance have several similarities across the Abrahamic faiths. Namely, repentance typically involves three central components: (a) experiencing genuine remorse for individual moral transgressions, (b) reconciling with God and others, and (c) restructuring one’s life (Etzioni & Carney, 1997).…”

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Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints

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Nelson

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Despite the prevalence of beliefs across religions regarding repentance and divine forgiveness and their recognition in theoretical and religious studies, these constructs are relatively understudied phenomena in the social sciences. Furthermore, in recent years, multiple scholars have argued for the need for research to systematically study and highlight the experience and processes of repentance and divine forgiveness. Subsequently, this study explored processes of repentance, antecedents and motivations of repentance, resources to aid in repentance, and outcomes of repentance that should be further examined. This analysis was done using in-depth qualitative interviews with 15 emerging adult religious exemplars identifying with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The authors used NVivo 12 and team-based qualitative coding processes to identify themes. Repentance processes included personal change, took various lengths of time, were a part of participants’ religious identity, were recurrent processes, and were influenced by participants’ view of God. Antecedents and motivations included religious practices and rituals, emotions, interpersonal interactions, and their relationship with God. Resources that aided in repentance included religious practices and rituals, interpersonal relationships, and a relationship with God. Finally, participants reported experiencing personal changes in their behavior and character, positive emotions (including feelings of divine forgiveness), improved interpersonal relationships, and a better relationship with God. These processes align with some previously discovered and theorized findings on repentance, contribute a number of novel findings, and offer future direction regarding the motivations, resources, and transformative experiences that participants reported in their personal repentance and experience of forgiveness.

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Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints

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“…(Batson & Marks, ; Burr et al, ; Dollahite, Marks, & Barrow, ; Lambert & Dollahite, ; White et al, ). Participants reported that their religious beliefs and practices facilitated relational forgiveness and reconciliation.…”

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Generative Devotion: A Theory of Sacred Relational Care in Families of Faith

Dollahite

Marks

Wurm

2019

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Generative devotion is a middle‐range theory grounded in analyses of interviews with religious and nonreligious families that illuminates ways religion can facilitate strong family relations within and across generations. Generative devotion is a way of approaching religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and communities that attends to the long‐term well‐being of family members, is essentially other‐oriented, responds to abiding needs of persons, respects the agency of others, and is consciously relational in nature. This article discusses various influences that have informed the development of the theoretical framework of generative devotion; the major terms of the framework and how generative devotion differs from other forms of religious devotion; 10 pathways to generative devotion; a metaprocess (generative family conversations) to better realize generative devotion; and assumptions about devotion in general, shared devotion, and generative devotion. Concepts are illustrated with quotes from in‐depth interviews.

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“…However, supportive dyadic coping was not found to mediate the relation between spirituality and psychological aggression. In another study, religious beliefs and practices among American Catholic and Orthodox Christian families (such as prayer and attending worship services) were related to seeking forgiveness and to resolving con ict in order to build and maintain uni ed and harmonious family relationships (White et al, 2018).…”

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A multi-sectoral evidence synthesis on religious beliefs, intimate partner violence and faith-based interventions

Istratii

Ali

2022

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In recent decades, more studies have emerged that examine the relationship between religion / spirituality, marital functioning and mental health. The scholarship on domestic violence (DV) / intimate partner violence (IPV) and religion does not appear to have integrated this evidence sufficiently and also lacks a multi-sectoral perspective. Ultimately, evidence from psychology and counselling needs to be bridged with evidence from public health and international development programming and studies in anthropology and sociology. A better integration could help to increase understanding of the multidimensional effects of religious parameters in the experience of DV / IPV and to identify how these effects could be leveraged resourcefully in faith-based interventions at community level and in psychosocial counselling involving victims, survivors and perpetrators in religious contexts. The current synthesis is the result of a systematic review that was conducted to start to bridge this multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary evidence to identify specifically: a) the influence of religious beliefs and experience on the rationalisations, behaviour and mental health of victims, survivors and perpetrators, and b) faith-based interventions in community and psychological counselling and their effectiveness. In pursuing these questions, we aimed to overcome the dominance of western definitions and paradigms of domestic violence or religion by combining evidence from sectors that are more international, such as public health and international development, and studies conducted in low-and middle-income societies that received less attention historically. We especially sought to distance ourselves from rigid understandings of ‘religion’ in an effort to make the review more relevant to diverse religious traditions and experiences.

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Kept Together by Faith: Confession and Forgiveness among American Catholic and Orthodox Christian Families

Cited by 10 publications

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Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints

Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints

Generative Devotion: A Theory of Sacred Relational Care in Families of Faith

A multi-sectoral evidence synthesis on religious beliefs, intimate partner violence and faith-based interventions

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