Between Community And Seclusion

Author : Mirko Breitenstein,Gert Melville
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643148759

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Between Community and Seclusion by Mirko Breitenstein,Gert Melville Pdf

The fact that certain cultures and religions produced a way of life which, for the sake of self-perfection, expected its adherents to withdraw from various obligations to the world and to enter into the organisational structure of a monastic community obviously represents a constant anthropological foundation. The spectrum of monastic life within these various cultures was extremely diverse in its manifestations. It was the result of a high degree of flexibility in the face of constantly changing ideas about piety, social needs and concepts of community and individuality. However, an interreligious study with the aim of a scholarly analysis of comparable key elements across different monastic cultures does not exist yet. The editors as well as the authors of this volume are particularly interested in how monastic life was realised communally in many ways according to fixed norms and rules, how it shaped the understanding of community and civilisation and therefore made a decisive contribution to the formation of our cultural identity.

Author : Shaila Catherine
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781458783646

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Focused and Fearless by Shaila Catherine Pdf

Now ordinary meditators (and non-meditators) can understand how to attain non-ordinary states with relative ease. Blended with contemporary examples, pragmatic exercises, and ''how to'' instructions that anyone can try, Focused and Fearless provides a wealth of tools to cultivate non-distracted attention in daily life and on retreat. Shaila Catherine has a friendly, wise approach to the meditative states (jhanas) that lead to liberating insight. Focused and Fearless is about much more than merely meditation or concentration. It offers a complete path towards bliss, fearlessness, and true awakening.

Author : Ann Alty,Tom Mason
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489929693

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Seclusion and Mental Health by Ann Alty,Tom Mason Pdf

Seclusion as a concept is poorly understood and this is reflected in the literature on the topic, particularly from nursing authors. This has led to an emotionally charged altercation rather than academic debate, both within the literature and at conferences. But why bother learning about seclusion at all, particularly as it is used less and less within mental health? We would point out to those sceptical about the value of this book that seclusion is not only of interest as an intervention per se, but is valuable in reflecting a shifting ethos within care. For some reason, seclusion has been neglected; we believe that one reason is that it impinges upon widely held myths and beliefs within psychiatric practice. Questioning about seclusion uncovers uncomfortable facts and assumptions concerning the values underpinning today's mental health care approaches. Such uncomfortable questioning is often avoided for safer research pursuits. Also, we hold that this book is necessary in examining issues pertaining to seclusion practice. There is a gap within nursing knowledge in so far as seclusion is concerned, as our chapter on education upholds. Yet inquiries and litigation have highlighted the fact that seclusion practice must be more clearly understood as an intervention. At present, such understanding is erratic and far from useful in providing a higher standard of care. Practitioners need to make informed decisions regarding seclu sion, and this book aims to provide the necessary information on which to base these decisions.

Author : Kyle David Bennett
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493409587

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Practices of Love by Kyle David Bennett Pdf

Spiritual disciplines are often viewed primarily as a means to draw us closer to God. While these practices do deepen and enrich our "vertical" relationship with God, Kyle David Bennett argues that they were originally designed to positively impact our "horizontal" relationships--with neighbors, strangers, enemies, friends, family, animals, and even the earth. Bennett explains that this "horizontal" dimension has often been overlooked or forgotten in contemporary discussions of the spiritual disciplines. This book offers an alternative way of understanding the classic spiritual disciplines that makes them relevant, doable, and meaningful for everyday Christians. Bennett shows how the disciplines are remedial practices that correct the malformed ways we do everyday things, such as think, eat, talk, own, work, and rest. Through personal anecdotes, engagement with Scripture, and vivid cultural references, he invites us to practice the spiritual disciplines wholesale and shows how changing the way we do basic human activities can bring healing, renewal, and transformation to our day-to-day lives and the world around us.

Author : Jos D. M. Platenkamp,Almut Schneider
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030167035

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Integrating Strangers in Society by Jos D. M. Platenkamp,Almut Schneider Pdf

This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists—“strangers by vocation”—reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Māori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.

Author : John Hayes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469635330

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Hard, Hard Religion by John Hayes Pdf

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Children with disabilities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050681001

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Beyond Seclusion and Restraint by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Women's Health Council
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Female genital mutilation / cutting: a literature review by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Calgary. Archaeological Association. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032354121

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The Archaeology of Gender by University of Calgary. Archaeological Association. Conference Pdf

Author : Rokeẏā (Begama),Hanna Papanek
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0935312838

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Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones by Rokeẏā (Begama),Hanna Papanek Pdf

Tells the story of a feminist utopia and discusses the Muslim custom of purdah, the seclusion and segregation of women.

Author : Reece L. Peterson ,Joseph B. Ryan ,Michael Rozalski
Publisher : Council For Exceptional Children
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780865864757

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Physical Restraint and Seclusion in Schools by Reece L. Peterson ,Joseph B. Ryan ,Michael Rozalski Pdf

Explore the realities behind the headlines concerning children who have been isolated or physically restrained in schools, sometimes resulting in injury or even death. The editors address the legal and ethical issues underlying these practices, and, more importantly, what can be done to move schools away from potentially harmful treatment of children. This valuable resource explores the array of practices and approaches that provide effective and safe ways to prevent and reduce conflict, de-escalate conflict and aggressive behavior and train educators in crisis intervention.

Author : De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781622735877

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New Perspectives on African Childhood by De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade Pdf

What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.

Author : Vlad Naumescu
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Post-communism
ISBN : 9783825899080

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Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity by Vlad Naumescu Pdf

This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in postsocialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory based on two modes of religiosity, the doctrinal and the imagistic, author Vlad Naumescu reveals the mechanisms of reproduction and change that make the local eastern Christian tradition a living tradition of faith. He combines rich ethnographic materials with historical and theological sources to depict a religion in equilibrium between the two modes, maintaining revelation at the core of its doctrinal corpus. He argues that religion is a potential source for social change that empowers people to act upon reality and transform it. With his innovative exploration of the dynamics of an eastern Christian tradition, Naumescu makes a major contribution to the emerging anthropology of Christianity as well as to studies of postsocialism.

Author : Edward H’ Wolf
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426947469

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Secluded Mansion Nights by Edward H’ Wolf Pdf

Ambers of time flow through the asylums of life. As one embarks on a journey set behind the padded cells of imagination, only those embers of true sanity will prevail in the many adventures to survive the deity of life. Eddie goes on such adventures through the corridors of time within the chamber walls of the secluded mansion to discover what life is really like in the realm of the padded cells of his minds eye.

Author : Vallies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900059571

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The Vallies; Or, Scenes and Thoughts from Secluded Life by Vallies Pdf