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The Workings Of Admiration And Adoration In Contrast To Self-Interest Within Religious Families, Toshi Shichida
The Workings Of Admiration And Adoration In Contrast To Self-Interest Within Religious Families, Toshi Shichida
Theses and Dissertations
The workings of admiration and adoration within individuals and the family as attitudes against self-interest were investigated. Interviews with American families in two New England states from ten Christian denominations (n = 20) were analyzed qualitatively. As a result, admiration was observed among almost all the families. Three means-end structures emerged in regard to spouses' configuration of the components of adoration, and these three groups of families indicated different features of family. The spouses of the Holistic Devotion (HD) group devoted all resources to God, rejecting the quest for self-interest, defining marriage/family as a coherent unit to serve God. The …