A TEOLOGIA DA MISSÃO INTEGRAL:APROXIMAÇÕES E IMPEDIMENTOS ENTRE EVANGÉLICOS E EVANGELICAIS

A identidade do Movimento Evangélico vem dos puritanos, dos movimentos avivalistas, mas principalmente dos milenarismos que marcaram o final do século XIX e o começo do século XX. Os pressupostos do fundamentalismo foram articulados exatamente para dar sustentação ao anseio escatológico desses grupos. A identidade evangélica se formou a partir dos vexames do fundamentalismo que tentou diminuir o impacto do darwinismo nos Estados Unidos. Os evangélicos se organizaram e mostraram capacidade de mobilização. Seminários, revistas, conferências e eventos evangelísticos tornaram os evangélicos uma força no cenário mundial, principalmente na América Latina. Embora tenham demonstrado maior flexibilidade em interagir com a cultura, os evangélicos mantiveram os pressupostos milenaristas e fundamentalistas. Na América Latina, conseguiram relevante participação no Congresso Internacional de Evangelização em Lausanne, 1974. Foi proposto que a missão da igreja incluísse responsabilidade social com a mesma relevância que a proclamação dos conteúdos da fé. Mesmo tendo chegado tarde ao Brasil, lideranças jovens se mobilizaram em torno da proposta da Missão Integral. Entretanto, a questão sobre o que deve ser considerado prioritário não foi totalmente respondido, gerando decepção e desencorajamento entre evangelicais.(AU)

A TEOLOGIA DA MISSÃO INTEGRAL:APROXIMAÇÕES E IMPEDIMENTOS ENTRE EVANGÉLICOS E EVANGELICAIS

A identidade do Movimento Evangélico vem dos puritanos, dos movimentos avivalistas, mas principalmente dos milenarismos que marcaram o final do século XIX e o começo do século XX. Os pressupostos do fundamentalismo foram articulados exatamente para dar sustentação ao anseio escatológico desses grupos. A identidade evangélica se formou a partir dos vexames do fundamentalismo que tentou diminuir o impacto do darwinismo nos Estados Unidos. Os evangélicos se organizaram e mostraram capacidade de mobilização. Seminários, revistas, conferências e eventos evangelísticos tornaram os evangélicos uma força no cenário mundial, principalmente na América Latina. Embora tenham demonstrado maior flexibilidade em interagir com a cultura, os evangélicos mantiveram os pressupostos milenaristas e fundamentalistas. Na América Latina, conseguiram relevante participação no Congresso Internacional de Evangelização em Lausanne, 1974. Foi proposto que a missão da igreja incluísse responsabilidade social com a mesma relevância que a proclamação dos conteúdos da fé. Mesmo tendo chegado tarde ao Brasil, lideranças jovens se mobilizaram em torno da proposta da Missão Integral. Entretanto, a questão sobre o que deve ser considerado prioritário não foi totalmente respondido, gerando decepção e desencorajamento entre evangelicais.(AU)

A TEOLOGIA DA MISSÃO INTEGRAL:APROXIMAÇÕES E IMPEDIMENTOS ENTRE EVANGÉLICOS E EVANGELICAIS

A identidade do Movimento Evangélico vem dos puritanos, dos movimentos avivalistas, mas principalmente dos milenarismos que marcaram o final do século XIX e o começo do século XX. Os pressupostos do fundamentalismo foram articulados exatamente para dar sustentação ao anseio escatológico desses grupos. A identidade evangélica se formou a partir dos vexames do fundamentalismo que tentou diminuir o impacto do darwinismo nos Estados Unidos. Os evangélicos se organizaram e mostraram capacidade de mobilização. Seminários, revistas, conferências e eventos evangelísticos tornaram os evangélicos uma força no cenário mundial, principalmente na América Latina. Embora tenham demonstrado maior flexibilidade em interagir com a cultura, os evangélicos mantiveram os pressupostos milenaristas e fundamentalistas. Na América Latina, conseguiram relevante participação no Congresso Internacional de Evangelização em Lausanne, 1974. Foi proposto que a missão da igreja incluísse responsabilidade social com a mesma relevância que a proclamação dos conteúdos da fé. Mesmo tendo chegado tarde ao Brasil, lideranças jovens se mobilizaram em torno da proposta da Missão Integral. Entretanto, a questão sobre o que deve ser considerado prioritário não foi totalmente respondido, gerando decepção e desencorajamento entre evangelicais.(AU)

The association between social support and levels of psychological distress in pregnant women in Australia

The purpose of this study was to explore associations between forms of social support and levels of psychological distress during pregnancy. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of 2,743 pregnant women from south-east Queensland, Australia, was conducted utilising data collected between 2007-2011 as part of the Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL) project, Griffith University. Psychological distress was measured using the Kessler 6; social support was measured using the following four factors: living with a partner, living with parents or in-laws, self-perceived social network, and area satisfaction. Data were analysed using an ordered logistic regression model controlling for a range of socio-demographic factors. Results: There was an inverse association between self-perceived strength of social networks and levels of psychological distress (OR = 0.77; 95%CI: 0.70, 0.85) and between area satisfaction and levels of psychological distress (OR = 0.77; 95%CI: 0.69, 0.87). There was a direct association between living with parents or in-laws and levels of psychological distress (OR = 1.50; 95%CI: 1.16, 1.96). There was no statistically significant association between living with a partner and the level of psychological distress of the pregnant woman after accounting for household income. Conclusion: Living with parents or in-laws is a strong marker for psychological distress. Strategies aiming to build social support networks for women during pregnancy have the potential to provide a significant benefit. Policies promoting stable family relationships and networks through community development could also be effective in promoting the welfare of pregnant women.

l bilanciamento tra le libertà economiche e i diritti sociali collettivi operato dalla Corte di Giustizia è un contemperamento tra diritti equiordinati?* = The balance between economic freedoms and collective social rights and actions; Court of Justice is a choice between rights equiordinati? Actions by the Court of Justice. WP C.S.D.L.E. “Massimo D’Antona”.INT – 98/2012

In the Viking and Laval judgments and more recently in the Comm. v. Germany ruling, the Court of Justice applied the proportionality test to collective rights, setting a series of restrictions to the exercise of the right to strike and the right to collective bargaining. The way the ECJ balances the economic freedoms and the social rights is indeed very different from that of the Italian Constitutional Court. Unlike the European Union Treaties, the Italian Constitution recognizes an important role to the right to take collective action which has to be connected with article 3, paragraph 2, consequently the right of strike is more protected than the exercise of economic freedoms.

Convergence of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance in weak economies : the case of Bangladesh

The convergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance (CG) has changed the corporate accountability mechanism. This has developed a socially responsible ‘corporate self-regulation’, a synthesis of governance and responsibility in the companies of strong economies. However, unlike in the strong economies, this convergence has not been visible in the companies of weak economies, where the civil society groups are unorganised, regulatory agencies are either ineffective or corrupt and the media and non-governmental organisations do not mirror the corporate conscience. Using the case of Bangladesh, this article investigates the convergence between CSR and CG in the self-regulation of companies in a less vigilant environment.

Toward a view of complementarity trust and policy influence effects of corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity

The extant literature argues that nonmarket strategies can establish, sustain, or enhance a firm’s competitive advantage. Less clear is how and why effective nonmarket strategies influence a firm’s competitiveness. Moreover, the extant literature tends to examine the two building blocks of nonmarket strategy—corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate political activity (CPA)—separately. In this article, we extend trust to the nonmarket environment. We analyze how CSR and CPA complement each other to create strong trust between firms and the polity, and how they consequently influence government policy. We show the mediating role of trust in policy influence, and argue that CSR and CPA should be aligned for the successful influence of salient government policy.

Corporate social responsibility and sport event sponsorship

Demonstrating socially responsible behaviour has become increasingly important for corporations. Using the Psychological Continuum Model (PCM) as its theoretical framework, this paper examines the meditational role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the relationship between sport participation motivation, event attachment and purchase intent of a sport event’s sponsors’ products. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of sport event participants (N=689) to measure sport participation motivation (recreation and charity), attachment to the event, CSR, and purchase intent of sponsors’ products. Results reveal that CSR fully mediates the link between purchase intent and sport participation motivation and partially mediates the influence of attachment on purchase intent. The authors propose that corporations strategically align with sport events in which participants are attached to allow for CSR and the meaning elicited by the event to work jointly.

A quite unreasonable state of affairs : corporate social responsibility and the John Lewis Partnership

On the surface the subjects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Critical Management Studies (CMS) seem to be closely related. Both are concerned with reflecting on the impact of management and organisation on employees, the wider community and the environment. Both suggest that there may be a need for organisations to take responsibility for and account of people other than shareholders and both have used the concept of accountability to suggest that organisations may need to do more than just comply with the legal framework.

The relationship between culture, attitude, social networks and quality of life in midlife Australian and Taiwanese citizens

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to specifically investigate the differences in culture, attitudes and social networks between Australian and Taiwanese men and women and identify the factors that predict midlife men and women’s quality of life in both countries. Methods: A stratified random sample strategy based on probability proportional sampling (PPS) was conducted to investigate 278 Australian and 398 Taiwanese midlife men and women’s quality of life. Multiple regression modelling and classification and regression trees (CARTs) were performed to examine the potential differences on culture, attitude, social networks, social demographic factors and religion/spirituality in midlife men and women’s quality of life in both Australia and Taiwan. Results: The results of this study suggest that culture involves multiple functions and interacts with attitudes, social networks and individual factors to influence a person’s quality of life. Significant relationships were found between the interaction between cultural circumstances and a person’s internal and external factors. The research found that good social support networks and a healthy optimistic disposition may significantly enhance midlife men and women’s quality of life. Conclusion: The study indicated that there is a significant relationship between culture, attitude, social networks and quality of life in midlife Australian and Taiwanese men and women. People who had higher levels of horizontal individualism and collectivism, positive attitudes and better social support had better psychological, social, physical and environmental health, while it emerged that vertical individualists with competitive characteristics would experience a lower quality of life. This study has highlighted areas where opportunities exist to further reflect upon contemporary social health policies for Australian and Taiwanese societies and also within the global perspective, in order to provide enhanced quality care for growing midlife populations.

Corporate social responsibility and the parameters of dialogue with vulnerable others

This article presents a case study of corporate dialogue with vulnerable others. Dialogue with marginalized external groups is increasingly presented in the business literature as the key to making corporate social responsibility possible in particular through corporate learning. Corporate public communications at the same time promote community engagement as a core aspect of corporate social responsibility. This article examines the possibilities for and conditions underpinning corporate dialogue with marginalized stakeholders as occurred around the unexpected and sudden closure in January 2009 of the AU$2.2 billion BHP Billiton Ravensthorpe Nickel mine in rural Western Australia. In doing so we draw on John Roberts’ notion of dialogue with vulnerable others, and apply a discourse analysis approach to data spanning corporate public communications and interviews with residents affected by the decision to close the mine. In presenting this case study we contribute to the as yet limited organizational research concerned directly with marginalized stakeholders and argue that corporate social responsibility discourse and vulnerable other dialogue not only affirms the primacy of business interests but also co-opts vulnerable others in the pursuit of these interests. In conclusion we consider case study implications for critical understandings of corporate dialogue with vulnerable others.

Corporate social responsibility and communication

Corporate activities are increasingly scrutinized for their effect on society and the environment. It is unthinkable that a corporation today will declare publicly that its only goal is to make money for its shareholders. Instead, corporations typically claim to balance the needs of society and the environment against the need to make a profit. That is, corporations say they practice corporate social responsibility (CSR). This edited volume explores the complexities of this seemingly simple claim.As such it is an essential resource to complement the latest academic thinking from management and communication research on how corporations communicate about CSR This chapter presents an overview of the book.

Self-efficacy partially mediates between social support and health-related quality of life in family caregivers for dementia patients in Shanghai

Background: There is a paucity of research assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and self-efficacy in caregivers of relatives with dementia in mainland China. Aims: To compare the level of HRQoL between caregivers and the general population in mainland China and to assess the role of caregiver self-efficacy in the relationship between caregiver social support and HRQoL. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Shanghai, China. The caregivers were recruited from the outpatient department of a teaching hospital. A total of 195 participants were interviewed, using a survey package including the Chinese version of the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), demographic data, the variables associated with the impairments of care recipients, perceived social support and caregiver self-efficacy. The caregivers' SF-36 scores were compared with those of the general population in China. Results: The results indicated that the HRQoL of the caregivers was poorer compared with that of the general population when matched for age and gender. Multiple regression analyses revealed that caregiver self-efficacy is a partial mediator between social support and HRQoL, and a partial mediator between behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) and caregiver mental health. Conclusion: Assisting with managing BPSD and enhancing caregiver self-efficacy can be considered integral parts of interventions to improve caregiver HRQoL.