Christian Male Mate Selection in Nairobi

Religions, 2021

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International Journal of Prevention and Treatment, 2012

Existing professional services for young people especially in developing countries need to be informed by the local situation for them to be effective. The study aimed at identifying sources of relationship guidance, young people's fea rs and reasons for marriage. 65 young Christians in Nairobi with an average age of 25.23 (sd.4.38) co mpleted a self-report questionnaire. Results indicate that the participants relied mainly on friends for relat ionship guidance. Social emot ional benefits, especially co mpanions hip, were the major motivation for young people to marry. Infidelity and divorce were the main sources of fear of marriage. Suggestions for research and practice are given.

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014

This study focused on the challenges encountered by young Christian adults in choosing life partners. The research was carried out using descriptive survey design. A sample of forty (40) respondents was used in this study. The researcher administered questionnaires and held interviews to gather data. The data collected was systematically presented in form of a pie chart, graphs and tables. Interpretation and discussion of data gathered was systematically done in relation to relevant literature citations. This study established that the propinquity effect is the main challenge that impact early adults' choices about marriage. Also, because of the law of attraction and attitude similarity, interdenominational marriages are inevitable. The study recommends that early adults must in earnest be wise enough to fill the gap between principles of interpersonal attraction and their church doctrine. Also, denominations should feel duty bound by their own teaching and example, to so mould the character of the young adults from their earliest years that they will be pure and noble and will be attracted to the good and true. Society should allow mate choices as afforded in choices of denominations.

Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing , 2017

Are Christian women more religious than Christian men today? Are career women less religious than housewives within the Christian religion? This study seeks to answer these and other questions through exploring gender differences in commitment to Christianity through select documentary evidences in the capital city of Abuja, Nigeria. Theories of gender differences in religious commitment are explored. Contemporary factors influencing these gender differences are analyzed. Gender differences are examined through indices of Christian commitment. Findings reflect the rate of influence of identified contemporary factors on gender differences in commitment to Christianity.

The quiet city of Calabar in southeastern Nigeria is famed for its burgeoning church scene offering various spiritual services. In this religious marketplace, The Brook Church stands out due to its beautiful building, well-dressed congregation, clever branding, and its 'unique' preaching. Focusing on young women's engagement with The Brook Church, this article builds on recent analyses seeking to understand the attraction of Pentecostalism for this often marginalised and disenfranchised social group. Examining The Brook Church's life-affirming doctrine of Zoe, in which individual aspirations are realised through careful and timely management of the religious self, the article explores how religious action and rhetoric mould new subjectivities aimed for success. Illustrating how Pentecostal practice gives young women a new-found sense of self-worth and confidence, the article's emphasis on the individual project suggests we should broaden debates that solely equate young women's engagement with Pentecostalism with sexuality and marriage opportunities. Keywords Nigeria – Pentecostalism – young women – aspirations – religious practice – self-management

Sociology of Religion, 2014

Studies of young evangelicals' dating patterns tend to analyze gender by focusing on ideology. This paper suggests a view of gender and religion that examines the two institutions as interrelated by considering how and when gender and religion emerge as salient in Christian dating. Drawing on a study of young evangelicals' relationships, I explain how ideal discussions of Christian dating emerged as gender-neutral against a backdrop of secular conceptions of romantic relationships but how their personal accounts reveal a series of divergent gendered evangelical worldviews when they turn to focus on their experiences constructing relationships within the evangelical subculture. The three worldviews of idealist, independent, and ambivalent each represent different patterns of how young evangelicals emotionally understand their life as both gendered and religious indicating more complicated patterns of gender, dating, and religion than presented in previous studies.

2019

This research focuses on a small study of Evangelical churches in New Zealand, examining both the practice and content of pre-marriage counselling sessions. Two competing visions of gender relations – egalitarianism and complementarianism – are embedded within Christian pre-marriage counselling discourse, representing different interpretations of the bible. Here, sociological research and theology intersect. In this article I examine how differing interpretations of Scripture shape marriage advice given to engaged couples. This study’s interview participants, whose pseudonyms are provided – John, Stephen, William, Sharon, and couple Ron and Shivani – are leaders within their respective Evangelical church who facilitate pre-marriage counselling with couples. I will analyse interview participants’ discussion of their personal theology, examining to what extent it shapes their premarital instruction.

2014

Leng Jakawa, declare that 1. The research reported in this thesis, except where otherwise indicated, is my original research. 2. This thesis has not been submitted for any degree or examination at any other university. 3. This thesis does not contain other persons' data, pictures, graphs or other information, unless specifically acknowledged as being sourced from other persons. 4. This thesis does not contain other persons' writing, unless specifically acknowledged as being sourced from other researchers. Where other written sources have been quoted, then: a. Their words have been rewritten but the general information attributed to them has been referenced b. Where their exact words have been used, then their writing has been placed in italics and inside quotation marks, and referenced. 5. This thesis does not contain text, graphics or tables copied and pasted from the Internet, unless specifically acknowledged, and the source being detailed in the thesis and in the References sections.

The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies

This study focuses on the role of Christian mentorship in embracing the sacrament of matrimony in Ogembo Town Catholic Church. The study argues that today, in the church membership, there is a serious inconsideration of the institution of marriage as a sacrament to a height that some even opt to substitute it with temporary arrangements (cohabiting) for living together without officially being married in church. Such temporary arrangements can be dissolved whenever either party desires. Many Christians seem to have lost commitment to conducting church marriages. A triangle theory of love and social capital theory was used to enucleate the arguments of the paper. The target population of the study was 400 participants. However, the actual sample size of 120 participants (comprising 2 priests, 4 catechists, 6 married Christian couples, 6 Christian counselors, 93 cohabiting Christians, and 15 local church leaders from all the 15 local churches that compose Ogembo Town Catholic Church) ...