Wolf, de, Florine
(2018)
Religion, spirituality and psychosocial support activities to people affected by a humanitarian crisis: the role of faith-based organizations.
Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.
Abstract
Religion and spirituality are important factors in most people’s lives around the globe.
For many of them, their religion and spirituality determine the way they see the world
and perceive what happen to them. It means that many victims of humanitarian crises
will very likely feel religious or spiritual. Therefore, non-governmental organizations,
faith-based or not, will have to deal with these affiliations when they deliver
humanitarian aid, including psychosocial support. This research aims to give a better
understanding of the role of faith-based organizations in delivering psychosocial
support to people affected by humanitarian crises by analyzing the relation between
religion and spirituality, and the psychological wellbeing of people affected by such
crises. In order to shed light on this, the research explores the effects of psychosocial
support activities with a religious or spiritual component on the psychological
wellbeing and clarifies the role of faith-based organizations in delivering psychosocial
support to people affected by humanitarian crises. Data were collected through the
interviews of six humanitarian workers from different organizations and involved in
psychosocial support. The principal results of the analysis show that faith-based
organizations can have a positive role in providing psychosocial support activities to
people affected by humanitarian crises and that religion and spirituality have their
place in psychosocial support activities because they can positively affect the
psychosocial recovery of people affected by a humanitarian crisis.
| Type: |
Thesis
(Master)
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| Supervisors (RUG): |
| Supervisor | E-mail | Tutor organization | Tutor email |
|---|
| McIvor, M.B. | M.McIvor@rug.nl | | | | Tarusarira, J. | J.Tarusarira@rug.nl | | |
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| Degree programme: |
Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation |
| Academic year: |
2017- 2018 |
| Date of delivery: |
31 Aug 2018 |
| Last modified: |
31 Aug 2018 13:18 |
| URI: |
https://ggw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/402 |
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