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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Hans Kolstad -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Are Demons Real?-Personal Experiences -- Chapter Two How are Demons Created? Earth Radiation -- Chapter Three How to Stop or Prevent the Demonic Effects of Earth Radiation -- Chapter Four How Do We Free or Defend Ourselves from Demons? -- Addendum -- Spiritual beings and drugs -- Poltergeists -- Conclusion -- Afterword by Phil Rogers -- Acknowledgements.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Albert Bandura -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Overview, Assessment, and Modeling -- 1 Spirituality, Religion, and Health: What's the Deal? -- 2 Prayer and Health -- 3 A Few Good Measures: Assessing Religion and Spirituality in Relation to Health -- 4 How Does One Learn to Be Spiritual? The Neglected Role of Spiritual Modeling in Health -- Part 2: Meditation -- 5 Meditation: Exploring the Farther Reaches -- 6 The Eight-Point Program of Passage Meditation: Health Effects of a Comprehensive Program -- 7 Mantram or Holy Name Repetition: Health Benefits from a Portable Spiritual Practice -- Part 3: Spirit and Action -- 8 Compassion and Health -- 9 The Calling Protocol: Promoting Greater Health, Joy, and Purpose in Life -- Part 4: Special Populations -- 10 Religion/Spirituality and Health in Adolescents -- 11 Spirituality and Cancer -- 12 Spirituality and HIV/AIDS -- 13 Spirituality at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Care -- Part 5: Ethical Issues -- 14 Spirituality, Religion, and Health: Ethical Issues to Consider -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

The ethnic Somali inhabited area in the Horn of Africa is presumably the largest geographical area inhabited by a single people group in Africa. It covers most of the three adjoining political units of Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti, in addition to large areas of eastern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya. The region has for centuries been subject to prevailing frictions between the Muslim Somali population and their Christian neighbors. Professor Said S. Samatar describes this relationship accordingly: "Somali Islam is a frontier Islam, hemmed in on all sides by pagan and Christian interlopers. Characteristically, frontier Islam is bellicose, xenophobic and profoundly suspicious of alien influences."1 Christian Somalis, although few and scattered, thus carry with them a difficult heritage pertaining to cultural and religious representation. Despite more than a hundred years of Protestant missionary efforts, the growth of the church in this area has been slow and the present number of evangelical Christian Somalis in the Horn of Africa presumably does not exceed a few hundred. This little group of believers constitutes a culturally marginalized and persecuted minority, and the story of the Christian church among the Somalis represents a story of unnamed struggles and sufferings. ; publishedVersion

PurposeThis paper aims to provide a Norwegian perspective of how trade unions in the former Soviet block countries have dealt with the challenges of the post‐communist period and how the European trade union movement has attempted to assist them as they have adjusted to representing and protecting the interests of workers in a market economy.Design/methodology/approachThis paper considers the point that the experiences of trade union development in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe should not be assumed to have followed some monolithic pattern.FindingsEach of the individual states experienced challenges that were unique to them and which reflected the economic, geographical and social situation they found themselves in when they took the "leap in the dark" at the end of the 1990s. The speed at which they made the transition to a market economy was also quite diverse with some countries such a Czech Republic and Hungary making progress quickly whilst others, for understandable reasons, were much slower off the mark.Research limitations/implicationsOne of the main thrusts of this paper is the diversity of experience amongst the former Soviet block countries both prior to and after the 1989 changes. The paper invites researchers to explore this diversity further in terms of causality and the impact of this diversity on the democratisation process of Central and Eastern European Countries.Originality/valueProvides a timely reminder of the dangers of perceiving trade unions in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe as replicas of their counterparts in the West. The picture he paints of the diversity of the region, the weakness of national trade union headquarters starved of funds to pursue industrial objectives by local trade union organisations who have a "holiday club" mentality and retain the bulk of the income for social and welfare benefits reminds us of the extreme difficulties that face trade unions in CEE countries as the strive to build strong and effective organisations capable of challenging multinational conglomerates.

A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child care centres to an equal cash transfer to all families with preschoolers. In the decision model applied (Michalopoulos et al. 1992) the mother chooses consumption, market time and average quality of child care. The model is adjusted to the Norwegian child care market and data for mothers who both are employed and receiving child care subsidies (1990) are used, since this group of mothers is assumed to respond most to the reform. Weaknesses in data and simplifying model assumptions imply that the results must be used with caution. Results from our simulation experiment do not indicate any large decrease in mothers labour supply, when altering the transfer system. The reform will give a substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well-off households.