We explored the coping behaviors of 15 immigrant African survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the United States. Similarities and differences in coping strategies between African and other immigrant women were noted. Results from the qualitative analysis are that African immigrant survivors utilized multiple coping strategies including beliefs in spirituality and divine retribution, ...

. . . Memory gives us access to the past, but not a direct vision of it. Thus all we can claim is to have a point of contact with past events, enabling us perhaps to divine their true shape in some degree, but not such that we can check our reconstructions by comparing them with it to see how far they are correct. For the rest, the sole criterion of truth available to us, in history as in other...

canr t0 woman who, he knows, is intending to th? ate him, all this is part of the now familiar ^nie of the pompous and omniscient psychiatrist ?Se fall, at any rate, resembles Lucifer's. But it is not only that the doctor was too clever, that his knowledge of the workings of his heart and mind were not matched by his power to control those workings ; running through the film there seems to be a...

According to one antitheist argument, the necessarily omniscient, necessarily omnipotent, and necessarily omnibenevolent Anselmian God does not exist, because if God is necessarily omnipotent it is impossible for Him to comprehend fully certain concepts, such as fear, frustration and despair, that an omniscient being needs to possess. Torin Alter examines this argument and provides three elabor...

in his mushkilat al-hadith, yahya muhammad denies knowledge and innocence of shiite imams through presenting such proofs as the way companions of later shiite imams dealt with the issue of imama, formation of various shi‘a sects, perplexity and dispute of shiites as to imama of the next imam in every era, not presenting al-kafi to four vicegerents of the twelfth imam, and lack of belief in the ...

many verses in the holy quran prove that there is a certain kind of knowledge that can be obtained through the practice of religious laws (sharia) and the way to doctrine (tarighat), progress  and conduct towards the most holy god and attention to the sacred universe. this knowledge is that intuitive knowledge which stands beside the other cognitive resources as a way of understanding. but like...