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Joel Osteen is America’s most popular televangelist and pastor of the country’s largest congregation, Lakewood Church in Houston, TX. The 54-year old has been preaching since 1999, and his sermons air in over 200 U.S. markets and over 100 around the world. This study provides a brief introduction to the man and his ministry and reports the results of a selfselective survey (N = 403), employing analysis of variance and correlation analysis to examine relationship between viewer exposure to Osteen and perceptions of him and his message through five measurement scales. Key demographic variables are also considered for interaction effects.
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The family is a basic and solid part of a social structure, but it is always set in historical and cultural contexts, therefore over the centuries the family has been undergoing constant evolution: the form of the family and its functions change. In post-modern societies family standards are being more frequently abandoned in favour of so called “post-family” family which takes form of cohabitation and alternative ways of living: living alone, mono parentalship and homosexual partnerships. Cohabitation means living together without a formal base. It is undertaken in order to ease a life together, facilitate economic functions of the partnership, accommodate lasting sexual relationship and bring up children. Cohabitation has an open structure, all can be discussed and depends on its members’ will. It doesn’t determine the sex or the number of its member, doesn’t require living together or having children, although it is not exclusive. The factors that lead to the abandonment of a traditional model of the family are: change of the women’s position in the social structure, equal rights, economic independence, separating sexual activity from reproduction, the impact of women movements and diminished meaning of the purpose of a marriage - reproduction. “Freedom from a child” allows to make a better use of time for self fulfilment. All these factors lead to individualization of life, the process of individualization changes the members of the society into self efficient atoms, individuals who reject social life and its limits and only look after themselves, focus on their own development and destiny though many can’t tackle the situation and lose. Ecology of the family, which is understood as the context for human development, comes with help to individuals lost in the era of the individualization of life. A known Werner- Wilson’s concept of ecology of the family includes inner- family relationships, relationships with other families, with a broader socio- cultural environment and natural environment- organic and non organic, in which the long lasting and dynamic process of human development occurs.
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Márton Áron élete és munkássága. I–III. Összeállította dr. Marton József. Pro Print Kiadó, Csíkszereda 2020
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The article is a critical look at the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. It is an attempt at indicating that the historical conditions of Poland (and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in them) are likely to be strong reasons for the state and shape of the present Roman Catholic Church in Poland, including quality of faith and the character of Polish Catholicism. It is a historical, theological and sociological study, the methodology of which is based on a historical (cause and effect) critical analysis. In this analysis, scientific publications and press articles have been used. Different opinions on the present Church in Poland presented by academics, feature writers, Church hierarchs, priests and journalists have been taken into consideration.
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According to statistics, which is a cause for concern, a big part of the adolescent and adult life is spent in the light of monitors, which tend to replace human beings, even the dearest members of the family, leaving room for the digital loneliness and “emptiness” to settle in. Research has found that teenagers are the most “fierce” media users. They are the most avid consumers of television and music and, at the same time, the most receptive to the use of digital technology and its continuous upgrades. They are “digital natives” and spend more time in front of screens than doing anything else: school, sports, family, even sleep. These scientific findings demonstrate the need for media education, parental supervision and control, as well as a proactive technology education of the parents.
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The article presents the origin of the parish in Świątki and its development until the second half of the 16th century. On the basis of the oldest archival sources, the glebe of the first ministers and the villages allocated to the local church were described. Attention was also paid to the feast of St. Cosmas and Damian’s patronage, which is found only at this temple in Warmia. However, the most information was extracted from the oldest post-visitation report, which was drawn up in 1567 by Canon Samson Worein. He described in detail the church equipment, including the book collection, presented the parish priest and teacher Georgius Schröter, as well as the order of services. The mention of a nobleman, commander of the bishop’s troops, David Braxein, who lost his faith but was eventually buried in the local church, is also interesting. The collected materials are a valuable source for the history of this parish, but also more broadly of Warmia, the forms of pastoral ministry, economic relations, and the social conditions of the era, especially those resulting from the influence of a new denomination - Lutheranism.
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