‘Who/what causes suffering?’: Discourses on religious healing in African communities

East African discourses on khat and sex.

AIM OF THE STUDY The study aims to review and analyse the varied East African discourses on the effects of khat use on libido, fertility, transmission of HIV, prostitution and rape. MATERIALS AND METHODS The data were gathered between 2004 and 2009 in Kenya and Uganda. Between 2004 and 2005 across Kenya and Uganda a broad survey approach was adopted, involving identification of and travel to ...

Suffering, Hope, and Healing

The words “pain” and “suffering” are so often used together in clinical practice they sometimes seem to merge into a single concept, with clinicians simply referring to “pain-and-suffering.” Writing in the early 1980s, Eric Cassell bemoaned the fact that the medical literature contained very few studies that specifi cally addressed suffering, although there were hundreds of reports that focused...

Promoting Healing and Reducing Suffering

citizenship behaviors in religious communities

the topic of citizenship is an issue that many scholars from different point of views have paid attention to this concept. we can see and recognize some dimensions of citizenship in the works of greek and islamic philosophers. in this article, we examine the most important dimension of citizenship i.e. behavior. under the light of this research, as we can see in islamic religious texts, there a...

Living wills and religious communities.