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Religion, spirituality and psychosocial support activities to people affected by a humanitarian crisis: the role of faith-based organizations.

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.

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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)
Supervisors (RUG):
SupervisorE-mailTutor organizationTutor email
McIvor, M.B.M.McIvor@rug.nl
Tarusarira, J.J.Tarusarira@rug.nl
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://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/402
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