Stroke and cardiovascular disease are major health problems for African Americans. This article describes challenges, strategies employed, and successes in implementing a combination "faith-based" and "faith-placed" health promotion program called the BLESS Project in a small rural church in North Carolina. The project was implemented by a congregational nurse who teaches nursing at a nearby HB...

The extent of faith-based organizations' participation within the overall health systems of developing countries is unclear. Recent reports state that faith-based organizations play a substantial role in providing healthcare in developing countries, cited in some publications as up to 70% of all healthcare services. The data behind these numbers are sometimes difficult to pinpoint and seem at o...

The objective of this study was to assess the literature on faith-placed cardiovascular health promotion in order to construct a framework of factors meant to facilitate effective program design. Data source was empirical studies on the contextual and organizational factors underlying faith-placed cardiovascular program performance. Study inclusion criteria were papers reported from 1984 to 200...

In the following, we characterize the contemporary conservative Evangelical movement as an example of contentious politics, a movement that relies on both institutional and noninstitutional tactics to achieve political outcomes. Examining multiple institutional and legislative outcomes related to the Faith Based Initiative, we seek to understand why some states have established state faith-base...

in the wisdom-faith relation debate, as one of the most important issues in theology, thomas aquinas, the renowned christian rhetoric of the middle ages, intellectually claims that wisdom is independent and even superior to faith. in the modern cartesian intellectualism, there is nothing superior to the wisdom, put differently; things which can’t be recognized through logic can’t be considered ...

Objective: The present study was designed to examine the college student's mental health predication model based on religious faith mediated by happiness, ambivalent attachment style and ‎locus of control. Methods: The method of study was correlational.  The statistical population included all college students of the Shiraz University in the academic year of 2013-2014.  The sample included 240...

In his essay, "Faith and Enlightenment," James Doull makes a case for the view that the faith of the Protestant Reformation and the "pure insight" of Enlightenment are but "two opposed forms of the same totality." Despite the often deadly hostility of Enlightenment to traditional religious belief, the form of consciousness which arose alternately with Lutheranism in the sixteenth century and wi...

Dr Davies discusses faith healing, its clients and the healing process. He suggests that typical healers often have a total faith in themselves, their working methods and their systems of belief, sometimes born out of their own previous suffering. Patients do well if they have faith (which needs to be distinguished from credulity) in their healers and this faith should be nurtured and valued. S...

This article (a) discusses the definition of faith-based substance abuse treatment programs, (b) juxtaposes Durkheim's theory regarding religion with treatment process model to highlight key dimensions of faith-based and traditional programs, and (c) presents results from a study of seven programs to identify key program dimensions and to identify differences/similarities between program types....