Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Building Leadership Effectiveness This program encourages leaders to develop practices that transform values into action, vision into realities, obstacles into innovations, and risks into rewards. Participants will be introduced to the five practices of exemplary leadership: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart Coaching & Communicating for Performance Coaching & Communicating for Performance is a highly interactive program that will give supervisors and managers the opportunity to build skills that will enable them to share expectations and set objectives for employees, provide constructive feedback, more effectively engage in learning conversations, and coaching opportunities. Skillful Conflict Management for Leaders As a leader, it is important to understand conflict and be effective at conflict management because the way conflict is resolved becomes an integral component of our university’s culture. This series of conflict management sessions help leaders learn and put into practice effective strategies for managing conflict.

기독교 사역과 Leadership

The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1, Reason and the Rationalization of Society

Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution

For modern social theory, as well as for many ordinary people, religious identities have been a problem. Just what does it really mean to claim a Jewish or Christian identity? To think of oneself as Presbyterian or Baptist? What do we know of that new church down the road that simply calls itself “Fellowship Church”? And do any of those things have anything to do with how we might expect someone to perform their duties as a citizen or a worker? As modern people have loosened their ties to the families and places that (perhaps) formerly enveloped them in a cocoon of faith (or at least surrounded them with a predictable round of religious activity), they can choose how and whether to be religious, including choosing how central religion will be in their lives. Religious practices and affiliations change over a complicated lifetime, and the array of religious groups in a voluntary society shifts in equally complex ways. If religious identity ever was a given, it certainly is no longer. In his influential work on religion and personal autonomy, Philip Hammond posits that, given the mobility and complexity of the modern situation, individual religious identities are of various sorts – either ascribed (collectivity-based) or achieved (individual) and either primary (a core or “master” role) or secondary (Hammond 1988). In the premodern situation, religion was presumably collective and core. In the modern situation, taking up a collective, core religious identity is a matter of (exceptional) choice, not determinism.

Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: Religious Identities and Religious Institutions

Les AA. analysent la relation entre alimentation et spiritualite parce que ces deux elements sont tres lies dans les societes africaines, notamment dans les communautes afro-americaines. Il est possible que la tradition americaine de l'Eglise-aliment soit une remise en acte ou une redirection des fetes de la tradition religieuse africaine. Les membres de l'Eglise afro-americaine alimentent leurs corps comme ils alimentent leurs esprits. Dans ce processus, une ethique de l'amour et de l'hospitalite emerge notamment dans le partage de la nourriture. Au moment des repas, la communaute est ainsi rappelee jusque dans ses origines africaines

"There's nothing like church food": Food and the U.S. afro-christian tradition: Re-membering community and feeding the embodied s/spirit(s)

This article introduces the reader to literature, ideas, and processes the authors have used in mentoring graduate students and junior faculty of color, including women. The writing is based on an ...

Guiding the way: Mentoring graduate students and junior faculty for sustainable academic careers

This article presents a description of the African Atlantic Research Team as exemplary of ten years of successful mentoring of undergraduate and graduate university students who are focused on a Ph.D in disciplines traditionally associated with academic research and teaching. The team is distinctive because it is multi-disciplinary in composition, the majority of its members are from communities historically excluded from structures of U.S. higher education, and its activities focus on members working collaboratively and collectively through most areas of their academic learning and socialization. Though the numbers of this case study are small, 95% of team members successfully completed their bachelor’s degree with majors that facilitate their application for graduate study in disciplines linked to academic research, writing, and university instruction. These undergraduate majors differ from those focusing upon social problems or applied or professional majors. Eighty percent of the team members applied for graduate study, and only one did not attend graduate school.

Jualynne E. Dodson

Papers

"There's nothing like church food": Food and the U.S. afro-christian tradition: Re-membering community and feeding the embodied s/spirit(s)

Guiding the way: Mentoring graduate students and junior faculty for sustainable academic careers

“Take the Fifth”: Mentoring Students Whose Cultural Communities Were Not Historically Structured Into U.S. Higher Education

Sacred spaces and religious traditions in Oriente Cuba

Conceptualizations and research of African American family life in the United States: Some thoughts