while the health-related religious beliefs, practices and rituals of the Greek Orthodox Christian denomination have not been explored.MethodThis study was part of a large study encompassing 19 interviews with 25 informants, relatives of patients in intensive care units of three large hospitals in Ath...
Using a prospective design, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between coping and psychological well-being (distress and positive affect) in a sample of Greek cancer patients (N = 86), giving a special emphasis on the role of religiosity (religious beliefs and coping)...
expressed conflicting beliefs and desires, even though such contradictions were obvious in their discourse. At the beginning of the interviews, they had all stated that they would have liked a “warm caring relationship,” that is, a relationship with a partner who is understanding and affectionate...
RELIGIONS: Greek Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, Jews, etc. NATIONAL HOLIDAYS: 25th March (1821 Revolution Anniversary), 28th October (“Ohi” Day) CURRENCY: Euro INTERNATIONAL PHONE CODE: 0030 MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS: UN (Council of Europe), OECD (European Union), NATO ...
According to Gianopulos, 97% of Greeks are Greek Orthodoxs “yet few young people attend church on Sunday. Attendance is primarily made up of elderly women. Many of the youth are turned off by the church and could care less about the things of God. During the summer months what concerns...
Rigas’ nostalgia for Greece is also reinforced visually by means of the blog’s interface, where the drawings of the olive branch, the ship on the sea, the church, and the sun (as visual metonymies for Greece’s distinctive flora, maritime tradition, coastline, Orthodox Christianity and weat...
(the changing of the water into wine), by which the Western Church celebrated the manifestation of Christ to the world and His power to perform miracles. In the Orthodox Church, the Nativity, after being introduced from the West, was designated to be observed also on December 25th, probably...
We have here a large portion of my patients population that are with the orthodox-Jewish community and there is great stigmatization of having a genetic condition in your family in terms of marriagability and meeting matches and so many of my patients [choose not to receive any results] and ...
the viewer can discern an image of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus Christ as a child placed in a central position behind the office of K. Mitsotakis, a strong symbol of the Christian Orthodox religion and reminiscent of the central role of the Christian Orthodox doctrine in the formation of the...
Plotinus himself seems to have known nothing of orthodox Christianity, though he wrote one tractate against the Gnostics. Augustine was rescued from Manichaeism and skepticism by neoplatonic arguments. Because of this, he gave a Platonic slant to Christian theology, though as he matured in his ...