Religion and culture: Revisiting a close relative

Beyers, Jaco

doi:10.4102/hts.v73i1.3864

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“…Many cultural factors, working invisibly in the background, affect the way symptoms are expressed, perceived, assessed, interpreted, and documented. Religious beliefs and practices, for instance, are strongly related to culture and may account for some of the variations in grieving processes (Lobar et al, 2006;Beyers, 2017). Influenced by beliefs such as fatalism [e.g., "Life and death are decreed by fate" (Yang, 1980)], Chinese bereaved seldomly share their grief with others and when Chinese people comfort the bereaved they often do so by saying "Restrain your grief and accord with inevitable changes".…”

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Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Cultural Crisis

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Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is included as a new mental health disorder in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Understandably, this has boosted research efforts to investigate this newcomer to psychopathology. However, the use of different diagnostic algorithms has resulted in substantially different prevalence rates both within and across cultural groups. Furthermore, global applicability of the new criteria outside of the Global North has not been yet been established. This perspective presents key findings from Asian research groups and discusses the roadblocks to unified PGD research, including the heterogeneric use of diagnostic algorithms and the lack of cultural compatibility of ICD-11 items. The authors discuss the key issues and address implications for practice.

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“…(6) correlation coefficient value between perceived cohesion and perceived ease of use was 0.576; they were moderately correlated. (7) correlation coefficient value between perceived cohesion and social norm was 0.706; they were highly correlated. (8) correlation coefficient value between perceived cohesion and user preference was 0.682; they were moderately correlated.…”

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“…In the aesthetics and ethics aspect, religion may identify culture. Accordingly, culture can be recognized by religion [7]. Mulder (1985) stated that religion is a presentation of culture by understanding religion to recognize culture [8].…”

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Learning Performance Assessment for Culture Environment Learning and Custom Experience with an AR Navigation System

Chang

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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Culturally sustainable environmental education is a crucial issue that is inseparable from our society and environment; and closely linked to our life. Taiwan's cultural environment and family activities are characterized by religious beliefs and temple architectures. Incorporating digital technology into learning about the cultural environment of Taiwan can be an effective way to achieve sustainability. To have a deeper understanding of Taiwan's culture and aesthetics, this study uses AR (augmented reality) technology to bring interactive experiences to the temple, so that the public can interactively experience arts in the temple. Through the AR navigation system, people can ascertain cultural connotations and understand the power of Taiwan's beliefs. This study will take the Wumiao (martial temple) in Yanshui District, Tainan, Taiwan, as the research field to examine the learning experiences and performance with an AR navigation system. The empirical method is used to collect data of users' behaviors and feelings; the statistics approach is also used to testify to the AR usability that is if with AR technology people can have a better understanding and learning performance on the culture aspect. Research finding proves one can have a better learning experience with AR tech with a positive result. According to the correlation coefficient analysis, only perceived enjoyment and perceived ease of use are moderately correlated, the other differences are highly correlated. It is thus clear that AR navigation systems should be applied for having better folk beliefs, cultural etiquette learning experiences, and learning performance, more, for not merely having faith, but also loyalty as well.

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“…Taves would appropriate the essence and origin of organized religion as an outcome of a specific cultural context or experience. In other words, religion is an expression of culture (Beyers, 2017), which constitutes society. On the other hand, one cannot take away spirituality in the formation of culture and society's progress.…”

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The Social Dynamics of Spirituality and Youthfulness: A Social Interplay Between Disposition and Process

Canete

Pandey²

2020

IJSEI

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Issues and topics concerning spirituality is not new in the social sphere. Many great thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology have tried to excavate the richness of the topic. Though not new a topic, there are still various avenues in the sphere of spirituality that need to be examined and discovered through intellectual abstraction and practical observation; it is a topic that is ancient yet new, an idea suggesting a paradox of time and permanence. The relevance of spirituality cannot be contained in a specific era nor time frame or even in established social structures because it deals with people and their disposition toward life and a certain desire in their very being for transcendence. In other words, spirituality is all about a person’s attitude towards life and a quest for an existential meaning behind every experience that might be of unequalled value or significance. Hence, spirituality is not static but dynamic in its very being, for as long as man desires to go beyond his present state of being and moves into another manner of existence, spirituality is evident; it manifests itself in that affinity for self-transcendence. The term youth, alternatively, also speaks of a dynamic progressive or regressive movement of the self, outside of its present state of being. This study, therefore, is an attempt to phenomenologically interpret and appropriate the concept of spirituality as an unfolding of existence on the concept of youthfulness not just an ordinary process in the life of a person wherein one becomes open for self-improvement or self-transcendence

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Religion and culture: Revisiting a close relative

Cited by 79 publications

References 5 publications

Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Cultural Crisis

Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Cultural Crisis

Learning Performance Assessment for Culture Environment Learning and Custom Experience with an AR Navigation System

The Social Dynamics of Spirituality and Youthfulness: A Social Interplay Between Disposition and Process

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