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Keeping Faith: Factors Contributing to Spiritual Transformation, Identity, and Maturity in Adolescents
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/acir/2013/Papers/9/thumbnail.jpgThe current research study investigated factors associated with spiritual development among adolescents. Eighty five participants (12 – 19 years) attending Protestant church youth groups were asked to complete a questionnaire measuring spiritual transformation, identity, and maturity as well as demographics, personality, religious social support, and personal devotional activities. The purpose of this research was to understand how religious social support (family, friends, church, mentorship) and personal devotional activities (prayer, worship, study of sacred texts) were related to a spiritual transformation experience, spiritual identity, and spiritual maturity. It was hypothesized that adolescents who reported having had a positive spiritual transformation and who demonstrated higher levels of spiritual identity and maturity would be more connected to religious support systems and would engage more in personal devotional activities. These hypotheses were supported. In particular, those who reported stronger levels of spiritual identity were more actively engaged in prayer, worship, and study of sacred texts and had more religious support from friends, parents, church, and mentorship. Youth who had higher levels of spiritual identity also reported a desire both to be mentored and to mentor others. Active engagement in a greater religious community was related to having had a spiritual transformation experience. These findings may enable mental health professionals, religious leaders, and parents to better understand how to support adolescents with religious and spiritual interests in their journey of spiritual development. Keywords: spirituality, religiosity, adolescents, parents, mentor, worship, prayer</p
The Annual Water Symposium at Kent State University: Human Impacts on Water: Ohio\u27s Most Important Natural Resource
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ksuresearcherdirectories/5/thumbnail.jpg16 page booklet on research in Water Science.</p
Greek-American Relations from Monroe to Truman
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/new_foreign_relations/14/thumbnail.jpgThe pre–Cold War motives of American intervention in Greece
Most studies of U.S. relations with Greece focus on the Cold War period, beginning with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. There is little substance in the extant literature about American policy toward or interaction with Greece prior to World War II. This overlooks the important intersections between the two countries and their peoples that predated the Second World War.
U.S. interest in Greece and its people has been long-standing, albeit primarily on an informal or unofficial level. Author Angelo Repousis explores a variety of resonant themes in the field of U.S. foreign relations, including the role of nongovernment individuals and groups in influencing foreign policymaking, the way cultural influences transfer across societies (in this particular case the role of philhellenism), and how public opinion shapes policy—or not.
Repousis chronicles American public attitudes and government policies toward modern Greece from its war for independence (1821–1829) to the Truman Doctrine (1947) when Washington intervened to keep Greece from coming under communist domination. Until then, although the U.S. government was not actively in support of Greek efforts, American philhellenes had supported the attempt to achieve and protect Greek independence. They saw modern Greece as the embodiment of the virtues of its classical counterpart (human dignity, freedom of thought, knowledge, love of beauty and the arts, republicanism, etc.) and worked diligently, albeit not always successfully, to push U.S. policymakers toward greater official interest in and concern for Greece.
Pre–Cold War American intervention in Greek affairs was motivated in part by a perceived association among American and Greek political cultures. Indebted to ancient Greece for their democratic institutions, philhellenes believed they had an obligation to impart the blessings of free and liberal institutions to Greece, a land where those ideals had first been conceived.</p
A study on the effects of Iranian religions on its house architecture
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/acir/2013/Papers/5/thumbnail.jpgIranian traditional architecture is one of the world\u27s architectures par excellence. It was one of the most important architectures in the medieval Islamic world. Iranian architecture has developed over millennia in response to its religion. Many traditional and vernacular buildings in Iran show that the architects had been so clever in harmonizing the Iranian religion and architecture in the past. The architects know how to adapt architecture to Iran\u27s conditions. From 1900 to now, thousands of new homes, apartment units and buildings have been constructed in Iran. In particular, the Iranian cities have expanded enormously and their great old structures are complemented by massive new urban developments. Learning from traditional architecture always can help us to take lessons on the Iranian beliefs directly from the past without extra expenditure. This article will explain the impacts of Iranian religions (Zoroastrian and Islam) on its architecture, and the major focus of the paper is to introduce how Iranian architecture has been influenced by the religion. It will analyze the Iranian architecture in the past and will show how the Iranian architecture was in harmony with Iranian religion, as well as its ideology. Then it will demonstrate in detail how its new planning solutions have failed to continue the thoughts of the past. Moreover, to better understand the role and relations of architecture and identity, this paper attempts to discover the changes of Iranian architecture through the last century. The results provide an effective strategy for future planning of Iranian cities. To accomplish this purpose, this paper is organized as follows: after the introductory part, the Iranian architecture is introduced in Section II, followed by the explanation of the changes of its architecture in section III. Study results are presented in Section IV and finally the conclusions will be addressed in section V.</p
A Magazine Spring 2013
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Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/18/thumbnail.jpgDrawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view others and promote social justice.</p
2013 Ohio Wine Competition Official Results
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/owc/5/thumbnail.jpgHeld in May 2013 at Ohio State University\u27s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and sponsored by the Ohio Grape Industries Committee, the competition awarded 136 medals. Official results include a complete list of awarded wines. Best of Show Awards Overall Best of Show: 2011 Grand River Cellars (Featured Photo), Vidal Blanc Ice Wine White Wine: 2012 Ferrante Winery, Vidal Blanc Red Wine: 2011 Valley Vineyards, Cabernet Franc Fruit Wine: Brandeberry Winery, Blackberry</p
Terra Cotta Vineyards, 2013
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wineryse/1/thumbnail.jpgTouring Ohio wineries and vineyards inspired hobby winemakers Paul and Donna Roberts to acquire land, plant grapes, and build a winery on 53 acres of rolling countryside. Visitors can browse the vineyards, taste the wines, and take in fantastic views. The location hosts special events periodically, including chef dinners, cookouts, and catered affairs. The location opened in 1999 and the couple maintains three acres of mainly French Hybrid grapes, and produces 14 wine varieties ranging from sweet to dry. Several of the wines have received the Ohio Quality Wine label granted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture. This program is open only to Ohio wines produced with at least 90% Ohio-grown grapes and have passed a rigorous sensory and chemical analysis.</p
Religious Attitudes and Attitudes about Scientific Issues: An Analysis of their Social Context in the United States
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/acir/2013/Papers/1/thumbnail.jpgThe social context of religious knowledge includes many different aspects of an individual’s life, including the external structures, such as class and political environment, which influence social behavior and the social processes, such as attitudes and values, which provide a level of consistency in people’s viewpoints, including the way that they encounter, react to, and attempt to incorporate new knowledge. This study examines the relationships between specific expressed religious views and opinions about specific scientific issues. The data used for the study is based on a representative random sample of Americans in the 2010 General Social Survey (GSS) conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). The scientific issues examined are: global climate change, evolution, stem cell research, continental drift/age of the earth, the big bang, and nanotechnology. The religious attitudes examined are based on questions about: belief in God, “born again” experience, extent of religious feelings, religious commitment, Bible reading, and whether God should punish sinners. Chi square and correlation statistical tests were used to explore the relationships between the religion and science variables, leading to rejection of the hypothesis that there are no differences in the attitudes of those with positive attitudes about religion and those with little, none or even negative religious attitudes and their attitudes towards the specific scientific issues included in the study. Analysis revealed inverse relationships between strong, positive religious attitudes and strong positive attitudes about current scientific issues.</p
Are Rabbis Informed?: Mass Media Information and Jewish Clergy in Israel
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/acir/2013/Papers/11/thumbnail.jpgA clash of cultures exists between the world of the rabbi and the mass media environment given that the rabbi emerges from a conservative culture representing established traditions and religious structures, and is confronted with accelerated cultural change exemplified by the media. To be true, the synagogue has for hundreds of years been losing its monopoly of strengthening moral values. If religion in traditional societies was based upon authority vested in religious bodies, in complex industrial societies there is increased emphasis upon personal choice in moral and religious matters with religious and spiritual issues increasingly mediated through print and electronic technologies. Mass media has in effect become a secondary causal agent of contemporary religious identity.</p