Browsing by Subject "Jordan"

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    Country Report 2018: Jordan
    (2018) Abu Rumman, Samir
    In accordance to Articles 3 and 8 of the Law of Societies (2008), in order to provide services or to carry out activities on a voluntary basis without profit, any group of individuals no less than seven – except for “closed societies” whose membership is limited to one person or more – shall register in the National Registry of Societies, established in the Ministry of Social Development. The law requires that the founding member(s) of an society to be of Jordanian nationality, not less than 18 years of age, and not be sentenced to a breach of honor or any crime.
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    Transnational Muslim Americans: Four Women in Jordan
    (University of Marburg (Germany), 2013-02-15) Curtis, Edward E., IV
    American women who have lived in Amman, Jordan. It seeks to understand how residency in this Muslim-majority country in the Middle East has affected their religious attitudes and practices as well as their gender, ethnic, and national identities. In offering analysis of these women’s own thinking about how their time in Jordan had or had not altered their Muslim and American identities and practices, this article contributes to larger scholarly conversations about religion and politics in transnational perspective. The travel and observations of these four women in Amman evidenced the often unpredictable nature of personal change when a human being moves, both physically and spiritually, from one place to another. Their stories confirm that the focus of much social scientific literature on transnationalism on how institutions—both formal and informal, state and non-state--delimit, constrain, and shape political identity is useful and necessary in understanding transnational ventures. But it also shows that such literature does not always account for the possible religious meanings of human movement. The transnational Muslim Americans in this study engage in ethical and cosmic, national and transnational practices all at once. Their stories show how an account sensitive to religious activity can helpfully account for the multiple meanings of transnational practice among Muslim Americans.
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    Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Breast Cancer Women in Jordan
    (Iris, 2020) Hamash, Kawther; Hamdan, Omar Khalil; School of Nursing
    Purpose of the study: This study aimed to determine the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and its associated demographic factors among breast cancer patients in Jordan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Patient demographic and clinical characteristics were collected using a self-administered survey that included practices and CAM therapies used in Jordan. Findings: Two hundred and fifty-six participants between 18 and 65 years completed the questionnaire. Fifty percent of patients used more than one CAM therapy. The most commonly used CAM therapy was listening to the holy book, followed by herbal treatment, and nutritional therapy. The use of CAM was influenced by income, education, and marital status. Conclusion: CAM use was found to be higher among well educated, married, and economically stable patients. The high prevalence of spiritual and nutritional CAM practices indicates that patients need psychological support to ease their unpleasant symptoms. Although cancer patients contemplate CAM therapies as important and favorable treatment, some CAM therapies can have a lethal effect on the patient’s health outcomes. The high prevalence of using CAM therapies among breast cancer patients in Jordan oblige the need to boost awareness among health practitioners’ and necessitates the need for patient’s education regarding unsafe and lethal CAM practices. Future studies might investigate the physiological effect of CAM therapies on the patient’s symptoms and health outcomes to report evidence of its effectiveness. More studies should investigate the potential side effects and possible interactions between CAM therapies and conventional treatment.