Dissertation

February 22, 2020 Review to “What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding” (Ricoeur, 1971)

The French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur examines a few important issues in his thoughtful essay regarding our everyday use of the terms, speech, language, understanding, explanation, and interpretation. This essay brings a good understanding of a text in qualitative research. In most cases in textual analysis, there is the use of texts as data for description and interpretation. Most of the textual materials are written texts of oral speaking like interviews or observations. In understanding what has been said and observed, we use text to provide evidence of people’s thinking, acting or beliefs among others.

October 31, 2018 New Article Published: Research on Religious Missions in Cultural Psychology

Mission (lat. missio) stands for sending members of a religious group or organization to spread their faith. This article provides the reader with a short overview about the current state of art in cultural psychological research.

January 26, 2012 Religious Self-Transformation and Faith Development of Protestant Missionaries

According to the “Status of Global Mission” (Bonk, 2011, p.29), widely considered as serious statistics of missionary population, in the…

May 11, 2011 Mission possible? Optimization of ‘Others’ in the Context of Missionary Strategies of Persuasion

In a series of publication projects I focus on the question of how optimization and standardization of ‘others’ and foreigners…