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{"title":"Examination of Fatherly Responsibility in Children Moral Training: Contextualizing Ephesians 6:4 among Baptist Families in Abraka Metropolis","authors":"Avwerosuoghene Joseph Agbogun","doi":"10.58425/jrcd.v2i1.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58425/jrcd.v2i1.107","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Family is a foundational social institution that raises human constituents of the society. It is expected that before young people leave their parents homes to school or any form of independent living, they may have been adequately trained or given their moral foundations. It is alarming seeing the manner of behaviour and anti-social characters perpetuated by young people in the society. There is no respect for constituted authority; no decency; no courtesy and respect for elders; no politesse among age groups, among others. It seems that the family is failing like the church and school in the business of moral training of children. Thus, this study sought to examine how Ephesians 6: 4 can inform teaching of moral values to children through the family among Baptist families in Abraka Metropolis. \u0000Methodology: The research methods adopted are exegetical and phenomenological wherein oral interview is used to gather information from the target population. The population entails parents of the Baptist denomination in the city. Simple random sampling was used to select 15 parents. Oral interview was employed to elicit the opinion of the participants. \u0000Findings: The study discovered that the parents recognize and accept their responsibilities of training and disciplining children in the family according to the bible teaching. Parents get their children involved in social and religious activities that help them develop good morals. \u0000Conclusion: The study concluded that since prevention is better than cure good morals can be implanted into children without their consciousness. \u0000Recommendation: This study recommends that fathers should rise to determine the moral contents, method taught and outcome.","PeriodicalId":326266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Cultural Dynamics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114582981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Death of COVID-19, Early Burial and Social Health: Between Preservation of Life and Respect for Culture","authors":"Alexandre Ndjalla","doi":"10.58425/jrcd.v1i1.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58425/jrcd.v1i1.77","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Death is a difficult moment which is managed in a particular way at the individual and collective level. It is synonymous with dysfunction at both the family and social levels. As such, a set of regulatory measures is put in place to restore the balance. In Africa and in Cameroon, the organization of funerals is an important moment for the recognition of the person who has left, but also for the members of the family, social and cultural body who remain. Therefore this paper aims to research the perceptions around early burial in context of COVID-19 and the impact on social life.Methodology: To achieve this, the researcher adopted a methodological approach specific to anthropology with field research based on individual interviews.Findings: This shows that burial is a kind of therapy. This organization responds to and is part of a particular care process. The failure to respect the dead is often the source of other problems of social balance and health.Conclusion: With the COVID-19 pandemic, new rules of life and social organization have emerged. And these are also visible and lived in the management of the deaths of this pandemic.Recommendation: It would therefore be important to give families the possibility of carrying out certain rites related to death and burial for the psychic and social balance.","PeriodicalId":326266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Cultural Dynamics","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122067020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Arts and Livelihood: The Case of Sculpturing and Weaving in Kedjom Chiefdoms in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon","authors":"Exodus Tikere Moffor","doi":"10.58425/jrcd.v1i1.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58425/jrcd.v1i1.75","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Arts is a source of livelihood in all societies and one of the major reasons artists produce objects is to sell and raise an income. This paper is on arts and livelihood: the case of sculpturing and weaving in Kedjom chiefdoms. Kedjom is one of the centres of wood carving in the Grassfields with the artists producing all sorts of carvings which include beds, thrones, stools, walking sticks and many more. This trade was regarded by the young people in the past as a job reserved for old people. But today, youths have found out that the trade is lucrative and many of them are currently engaged in it. This paper therefore explores the significance of these economic activities (sculpturing and weaving) in the livelihood of the people in particular and the chiefdom in general. \u0000Methodology: Data for this paper was collected using both the qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative method was employed through participant observation, in-depth interview, focus group discussions, life histories and photography. The quantitative method was used through the questionnaires. \u0000Findings: Weaving in general is an important art in Kedjom chiefdoms and cane basket production in particular is considered the traditional craft of the Kedjom people, a skill that everyone in the chiefdom ought to know. This trade (cane basket activity) is learned free of charge because the missionaries who introduced it to the first persons free of charge. \u0000Conclusion: These two domains of art (wood carving and weaving) are income generating activities and the finances obtained from the sales of art objects is used to build houses, send children to school, provide medical services for the family and much more. \u0000Recommendation: The people of Kedjom could benefit more if they could create arts’ cooperatives or common initiative groups to market their products. Considering the fact that arts is a source of employment, the government of Cameroon could provide subsidise to the artist to perfect as well as improve on their production.  ","PeriodicalId":326266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Cultural Dynamics","volume":"117 23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126414551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}