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Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family
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Religion, Theology, and Bioethical Discourses on Marriage and Family

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Humanities/Philosophies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1641

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Mirosław Brzezinski

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Faculty of Theology, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Interests: theology of marriage and family; spiritual life of the family; moral issues of marriage and family; pastoral care of families; elders in the life of the Church; activities and teaching of the Pontifical Council for the Family

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Marriage and family are fundamental institutions in the life of every human being. After all, every person is born into a family, and to it he owes who he is and what kind of person he becomes. In it he shapes his personality, his humanity, and learns basic and fundamental experiences such as love, sensitivity, empathy, respect for the dignity of other people, sensitivity to other people or selflessness in action. In the family, too, he experiences God as Father of all people for the first time, learns to respond to His love and word, and learns to believe. The family is referred to as the “domestic Church”—the environment of religious experience and experience—and a place of sharing the word of God and living according to God’s indications, which are read, above all, in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. From these indications also flow moral duties, which a person strives to fulfill using God’s grace through participation in the Holy Sacraments and through personal, marital and family prayer.

We are pleased to invite you to participate in this Special Issue of the journal Religion, entitled “Problems of Religious Life of Marriage and Family, the Theology of Marriage and Family”, which is devoted to the ethical and moral challenges faced by persons entering into marriage, especially entering into sacramental marriage. The Special Issue addresses three basic areas of marriage and family life from the perspective of theological sciences. The first area is religious life, the life of faith, and the spiritual life of marriage and family. This Special Issue aims to demonstrate how leading a spiritual life by spouses affects their self-perception, and in particular how it affects their relationships and quality of married life. The second area of research concerns the theology of marriage and family, which involves revealing the truth revealed by God regarding marriage and family. To examine the dimensions of sacramental marriage and family, the consequences of this are outlined as follows: unity, and fidelity indissolubility. The two basic aims of sacramental marriage and how they are realized are of note here, namely the common good of the spouses and the begetting and raising of offspring. It is also worthwhile to examine issues related to the marriage of people of different faiths and their religious life. The third area is the ethical and moral issues of marriage and family life, arising from the sacramental requirements and concerning respect for the personal dignity of each spouse and the new human life conceived in marriage; these issues are related to sexuality and sexuality, the transmission of life, the use of contraception and early abortifacients, in vitro fertilization, abortion or surrogate parenthood. This Special Issue addresses these issues in the context of ongoing social changes that increasingly distort God’s revealed truth about marriage and family.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Research area A: The religious life of marriage and family. The importance of faith in marital and family life, its impact on marital relations, on the educational process, and on involvement in the Church community and social life. The impact of faith on attitudes toward others. The importance of prayer and sacramental life in marital and family life. Issues of respect and interreligious dialogue in the context of family life and the increasing number of marriages between people of different faiths. Pastoral activities of the Church in favor of marriage and family.
  • Research area B: Theology of marriage and family. A look at these two basic institutions of human life from the perspective of theological science. God’s intention for marriage as a permanent and indissoluble union of one man and one woman and the family built on it, the vocation of love, and the responsible transmission of life. The sacramental dimension of marriage and the resulting qualities of marriage such as marital unity, fidelity and indissolubility.
  • Research area C: Bioethical issues of marriage and family. The research area concerns the ethics and morality of family life, starting with respect for the personal dignity of each spouse, through the requirements arising from the sacramentality of marriage and the qualities of marriage (fidelity in sexual intercourse and the exclusion of extramarital sexual acts, autoerotic acts), and issues related to sexuality, sexuality and the responsible transmission of life, the use of contraceptives and early abortifacients, in vitro fertilization, the problem of abortion, and so on. It also aims to look at these problems from the point of view of Christian ethics and morality, and what effect they can have on attitudes towards oneself and others, and on marital, family and social relations.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200-300 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editor, Prof.Dr. Miroslaw Brzezinski mbrzeziń[email protected]. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

Deadline for abstract submission: 20 May 2024

Deadline for full manuscript submission: 31 December 2024.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Mirosław Brzezinski
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • marriage
  • family
  • faith
  • religion
  • God's design for marriage
  • sacrament of marriage
  • sexuality
  • sexuality
  • ethics of married life
  • morality of married life
  • pastoral care of families.

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Marital Adjustment, Spiritual Well-Being, and Locus of Control in Married Couples
by Beyzanur Bedir Akpınarlı and Sema Eryücel
Religions 2024, 15(11), 1376; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15111376 - 13 Nov 2024
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The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between marital adjustment, spiritual well-being, and locus of control in married couples. A total of 526 married individuals living in İzmir, Turkey, 283 (53.8%) women and 243 (46.2%) men between the ages of [...] Read more.
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between marital adjustment, spiritual well-being, and locus of control in married couples. A total of 526 married individuals living in İzmir, Turkey, 283 (53.8%) women and 243 (46.2%) men between the ages of 18 and 65, participated in the research. The married individuals were evaluated individually rather than as couples. The of control scale (LCS) developed by Dağ, the marital adjustment test (MAT) developed by Locke and Wallace and adapted into Turkish by Tutarel Kışlak, the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS) developed by Ekşi and Kardaş, and a socio-demographic information form were applied to the participants. SPSS 22.0 was used for statistical analysis of the data obtained in the study. The findings were evaluated at a 5% significance level within a 95% confidence interval (p < 0.05). The findings of the study revealed that the marital adjustment of male participants was higher than that of females, and that as spiritual well-being increased, marital adjustment also increased. A positive relationship was found between transcendence, one of the sub-dimensions of spiritual well-being, and marital adjustment and internal locus of control. Similarly, a positive correlation was identified between harmony with nature and marital adjustment and internal locus of control, while a negative relationship was found between anomie and marital adjustment and internal locus of control. Moreover, negative and significant relationships were found between marital adjustment and external locus of control determinants such as belief in luck, meaninglessness of making an effort, belief in an unjust world, and anomie, one of the sub-dimensions of spiritual well-being. Additionally, a positive relationship was found between higher education and internal locus of control, and a positive relationship between marriages conducted between the ages of 17 and 20 and an external locus of control. Full article
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People with Disabilities and Their Families in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland: An Analysis of Barriers to Participation in Religious Practices
by Katarzyna Zielińska-Król
Religions 2024, 15(7), 840; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15070840 - 12 Jul 2024
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The available research suggests that the rate of involvement of people with disabilities and their families in the life of the Church is significantly lower than that of people without disabilities. The engagement of people with disabilities is largely dependent on (a) the [...] Read more.
The available research suggests that the rate of involvement of people with disabilities and their families in the life of the Church is significantly lower than that of people without disabilities. The engagement of people with disabilities is largely dependent on (a) the level of religiosity; (b) intrinsic motivation; (c) the level of trust in the institutions of the Church; and (d) broadly understood accessibility factors. Barriers experienced by people with disabilities are complex in nature, and make these people dependent on the help of others. Overcoming them requires significant investment, commitment, and change in the Church institution. These issues are relatively rarely addressed in the literature. The few, usually partial studies tend to concentrate on specific disabilities, discussed with no reference to the family context. However, it is usually the case that the religiosity and church activity of a person with a disability are firmly rooted in their family reality, shaped by the level of religiosity of their parents, and sometimes dependent on their presence and involvement. The aim of this article, which is both theoretical and empirical in nature, is to answer the question of which barriers form an obstacle to participation in religious life for people with disabilities and their families in Poland. This study uses the results of a nationwide qualitative research (focus group interview method) conducted among people with physical and intellectual disabilities, the hard-of-hearing and the deaf, the visually impaired, and their carers. Data analysis enabled the identification of the following barriers: infrastructural, personal and organizational (family-related and extra-familial). These research results can provide guidance in pastoral work with people with disabilities and their families, improving not only the quality of their religious experience, but also the number of the faithful in the Church community. Full article
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