Research Article
Hermeneutics of Religious Alienation, and Its Spiritual Cure
Ghallab Elew Hamada Osman*
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, October 2025
Pages:
89-96
Received:
4 June 2025
Accepted:
18 June 2025
Published:
3 September 2025
Abstract: Religious alienation and its spiritual remedies represent significant contemporary religious and philosophical concerns. This research endeavors to elucidate the concept of religious alienation, explore its epistemological contexts, and analyze its diverse interpretations within Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought. Furthermore, it investigates the manifestations and associated pathologies of religious alienation, alongside approaches to its spiritual treatment. This study seeks to address several key questions: What constitutes religious alienation, and how has it evolved? What are its primary epistemological contexts? How has religious alienation been interpreted across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic intellectual traditions? What are the observable manifestations of religious alienation, and what are the significant pathologies it can engender? Finally, what constitutes an effective spiritual treatment for this phenomenon? The research will primarily employ hermeneutical and analytical methodologies. Key findings indicate that the hermeneutical extremism of religious alienation fosters the phenomenon of atheism. This is because the actualization of religious alienation serves as compelling evidence for the perceived irrationality of faith, in addition to conceptualizing God as unjust and sacrificing free will. Such outcomes contradict the fundamental tenets of any monotheistic religion. These pathologies pose a significant threat to human security and can only be mitigated by refuting such extremism and fanaticism while simultaneously promoting humanism.
Abstract: Religious alienation and its spiritual remedies represent significant contemporary religious and philosophical concerns. This research endeavors to elucidate the concept of religious alienation, explore its epistemological contexts, and analyze its diverse interpretations within Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought. Furthermore, it investigates t...
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Research Article
Dropout and Its Correlates Among Children and Adolescents with Mental Illness in Ibadan, Nigeria: Implications for Policies
Toyosi Olatundun Ogunfowora,
Yetunde Celia Adeniyi*,
Haleem Abiodun Abdurahman,
Joshua Akinyemi,
Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, October 2025
Pages:
97-103
Received:
8 April 2025
Accepted:
23 April 2025
Published:
9 September 2025
Abstract: Background: Dropout is a common clinical phenomenon among patients with mental illness and seems worse among children and adolescents living in low-income countries. Most studies on dropouts have been among adult patients living in high- and middle-income countries. Methodology: In this mixed method study of sequential exploratory design, a total of 113 new patients were recruited for the quantitative part while 25 participants out of those who dropped out of treatment had an in-depth telephone interview. The quantitative data was analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences version 23 while the qualitative data was coded into themes manually using content analysis. Results: Ninety-seven percent of the participants dropped out of treatment. Almost 50% of the participants who dropped out did so after their first appointments. The rate of dropout was found to increase with time. Socio-demographic characteristics had no significant association with dropout. Patients’ diagnosis type or presence of comorbidity also was not associated with dropout. However, the types of treatment received was significantly associated with dropout (p = 0.040). The commonest reason for dropout was no improvement in clinical condition. Conclusion: The rate of dropout among the participants in this study was very high. However, majority showed willingness to re-initiate treatment. Further studies are needed to test possible ways to reduce dropouts among this population. Implications for health policies are also discussed.
Abstract: Background: Dropout is a common clinical phenomenon among patients with mental illness and seems worse among children and adolescents living in low-income countries. Most studies on dropouts have been among adult patients living in high- and middle-income countries. Methodology: In this mixed method study of sequential exploratory design, a total o...
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Research Article
Overview of Depression with the Help of the 7x4-field
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, October 2025
Pages:
104-117
Received:
26 May 2025
Accepted:
10 June 2025
Published:
26 September 2025
Abstract: This presentation describes the applicability of the 7x4-field - first introduced in 1984 for preventive mental health work - for the treatment of depression. This is also bridging, because the many theories of different scientific schools are suitable to this field. The first group of categories in this 7x4-field are the following influential matters: 1) Loneliness, 2) Models, 3) Stresses / challenges 4) Punishments / disappointments, 5) Losses, 6) Avoidances / copings and 7) Changes in life situation. The second group of categories are the following cornerstones of mental health: A) Human relations, B) Bodily functions / Exercise, C) Rational action and D) Irrational action / view of life. The above categories can be cross tabulated to form 28 cells, or they can be used as separate groups. At the outset it is expounded how the formation of depression theory by A. Beck has congruence with the concept of the 7x4-field. Subsequently a more detailed presentation shows how the essential nature of depression can be elucidated with the help of the field in question. The following headings are included: Dealing with the essence of depression, Depression and self-destructiveness, Threshold to seeking help and remaining in treatment in the treatment of depression, The contents of depression therapy and Monitoring depression. Many kinds of scientific analyses of results are incorporated including some information from therapy sessions not within the purview of the 7x4-field. All this bri¬ngs out the fact that the 7x4-field is widely suited for the schema of depression problematics.
Abstract: This presentation describes the applicability of the 7x4-field - first introduced in 1984 for preventive mental health work - for the treatment of depression. This is also bridging, because the many theories of different scientific schools are suitable to this field. The first group of categories in this 7x4-field are the following influential matt...
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