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Author : Jennifer Mata-McMahon,Tihana Kovač,Grace Grace
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848883710
Author : Edie Lanphar,Agata Wilczek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848883772
Author : Peter C. Jupp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317186632
The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to assess the significance of spirituality in the sociology of religion. The authors explore the relationship of spirituality to the visual, individualism, gender, identity politics, education and cultural capital. The relationship between secularisation and spirituality is examined and consideration is given to the significance of Simmel in relation to a sociology of spirituality. Problems of defining spirituality are debated with reference to its expression in the UK, the USA, France and Holland. This timely, original and well structured volume provides undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers with a scholarly appraisal of a phenomenon that can only increase in sociological significance.
Author : Janet Groen,Diana Coholic,John R. Graham
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554583812
Over the past ten years, the fields of social work and education have grappled separately with definitions of spirituality, ways to integrate spirituality into the classroom, and the rendering of spirituality as a meaningful concept for practitioners, students, and researchers. Social work and education have many commonalities in areas of engagement with children, families, and communities. For the first time, this book brings together these two professional disciplines for interdisciplinary discussions that advance our knowledge in the broad area of “spirituality.” The book’s three sections reflect broad topic areas created to facilitate dialogue between the contributors, all of whom have established expertise in exploring spirituality in education or social work. The first section of the book explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of spirituality in education and social work. Examination of our respective heritages uncovers the religious roots within our professions and reveals a present understanding of spirituality that calls for active engagement in challenging oppression and working toward social justice. The second section shifts the focus to the pedagogical implications of incorporating spirituality into higher-education classrooms. The varied level of acceptance and the tensions that come from including spirituality, implicitly or explicitly, in the programs and coursework in our respective faculties are illuminated by authors in both professions. The final section explores issues related to practising and teaching in the field from a spiritually sensitive perspective.
Author : Marc David Baer,Todd Michael Johnson,Lily Kong,Seeta Nair,Henri Paul Pierre Gooren,Peter G. Stromberg,Fenggang Yang,Andrew Abel,Robert L. Montgomery,Rebecca Y. Kim,Raymond F. Paloutzian,Kelly Bulkeley,Heinz Streib,Eliza F. Kent,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona,D. Bruce Hindmarsh,Massimo Leone,Timothy J. Steigenga,Arvind Sharma,Andrea R. Jain,Dan Smyer Yü,Gurinder Singh Mann,Louis Komjathy,Anna Xiao Dong Sun,Lizhu Fan,Na Chen,Alan F. Segal,David William Kling,Marcia K. Hermansen,Karin van Nieuwkerk,Douglas E. Cowan,Stuart A. Wright,James T. Richardson,Seth Bryant,Rick Phillips,David Grant Stewart (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195338522
This handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world.
Author : Marian de Souza,Jane Bone,Jacqueline Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319313801
This book collects multiple disciplinary voices which explore current research and perspectives to discuss how spirituality is understood, interpreted and applied in a range of contexts. It addresses spirituality in combination with such topics as Christian mysticism, childhood and adolescent education, midwifery, and sustainability. It links spirituality to a variety of disciplines, including cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and psychology. Finally, it discusses the application of spirituality within the context of social work, teaching, health care, and occupational therapy. A final chapter provides an analytical discussion of the different voices that appear in the book and offers a holistic description of spirituality which has the potential to bring some unity to the meaning, expression and practice of spirituality across a variety of disciplines as well as across cultural, religious and secular worldviews. "A strength of the book is that each chapter is characterized by a fearless confronting of oppositional perspectives and use of the latest research in addressing them. The book takes the difficult topic of spirituality into almost every nook and cranny of personal and professional life. There is a persistent grasping of the contentiousness of the topic, together with addressing counter positions and utilizing updated research across a range of fields in doing this. The opening and closing chapters serve as book ends that keep the whole volume together."Terence Lovat, The University of Newcastle, Australia "The interdisciplinary nature of the work is by far the strongest aspect of this volume. It has the potential to contribute to a dialogue between different professions and disciplines. This prospective publication promises to promote a more holistic approach to the study of spirituality. This volume takes into consideration a wide variety of issues. The way the editors have structured the sequence of chapters contributes to facilitate any possible dialogue between the different areas."Adrian-Mario Gellel, University of Malta, Malta
Author : Kirmani, Mubina Hassanali,Chapman, Amy L.,Steele, Barbara M.,Moallem, Mahnaz,Schroth, Stephen T.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781668463727
Across academic circles over the last few decades, the interest and inquiry on spirituality continues to broaden. Currently, the school system in the United States and many Western countries put their focus on academic achievement at the expense of preparing their students inner cores for skills they will need to deal with a more complex and challenging world to come. Supporting Children and Youth Through Spiritual Education provides a platform for researchers and experts in the field of spirituality in children and youth to voice the urgent need for an educational system that truly nurtures the whole child. The book also considers the need to remove the misunderstandings about the terms spirituality and religion among those who work directly with children and youth. Covering key topics such as religion, cognitive development, and spiritual needs, this reference work is critical for principals, administrators, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
Author : Bettina E. Schmidt
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health
ISBN : 178179765X
This book shows how the relationship between wellbeing and spirituality is studied by a range of disciplines including religious studies, theology, anthropology, psychology and history while also linking the debate to various religious traditions including Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Afro-Brazilian religion and even paranormal experiences.
Author : Pehr Granqvist
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462542680
"The primary aim of this book is to examine the ways in which aspects of religion and spirituality are linked to emotional attachment processes and close relationships. My approach is heavily influenced by John Bowlby's attachment theory and the enormous amount of research it has generated in developmental, social, and clinical psychology. A major aim of this book is to demonstrate the utility of approaching religion and spirituality from the perspective of a mainstream theory in developmental, social, and clinical psychology. This book will educate readers who are not yet familiar with attachment theory and the attachment-theoretical approach to religion and spirituality"--
Author : Mr Matthew Wood
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409477471
This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, alongside comparative studies in America and Europe, Matthew Wood criticises the view that such phenomena represent spirituality in which self-authority is paramount. Instead, he emphasises the role of social authority and the centrality of spirit possession, linking these to participants' class positions and experiences of secularisation. Informed by sociological and anthropological approaches to social power and practice, especially the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, Wood's study explores what he calls the nonformative regions of the religious field, and charts similarities and differences with pagan, spiritualist and Theosophical traditions.
Author : Raymond F. Paloutzian,Crystal L. Park
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462520534
Paloutzian (experimental and social psychology, Westmont College) and Park (psychology, U. of Connecticut) provide a 33-chapter handbook on the psychology of religion and spirituality, for social and clinical psychologists, pastoral counselors, and students and researchers in psychology and religious studies. Psychologists and a few religious studies specialists from the US and some countries in Europe address the foundations, including definitions, core issues, measurement assessment, research methods, psychodynamic psychology and religion, and evolutionary psychology as a foundation for the psychology of religion; religious and spiritual development across the lifespan; and the neural and cognitive bases of religion and connections to emotion, personality, culture, and social behavior. They discuss religious practices and rituals, conversion experiences, prayer, spiritual struggles, fundamentalism, forgiveness, values, and morality, and implications for individual and collective well-being in terms of health, mental health, coping, psychotherapy, workplace spirituality research, terrorism, and other areas. New topics in this edition include cross-cultural issues, spiritual goals, emotional values, and mindfulness. Most chapters have been redesigned or rewritten, with 25 new and eight revised chapters. The main themes of the book are more integrated, and the introductory and concluding chapters argue that the application of religious meaning systems and the multilevel interdisciplinary paradigm can allow reconceptualization of the field and expand research. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Raymond F. Paloutzian,Crystal L. Park
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462510139
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives on this core aspect of human experience. The forms and functions of religious practices and rituals, conversion experiences, and spiritual struggles are explored. Other key topics include religion as a meaning system, religious influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior, and connections to health, coping, and psychotherapy. New to This Edition *Two chapters on cross-cultural issues. *Chapters on spiritual goals, emotional values, and mindfulness. *Reflects significant theoretical and empirical developments in the field. *Many new authors and extensively revised chapters. *Robust index amplifies the volume's usefulness as a reference tool. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Author : Bettina E. Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health
ISBN : LCCN:2019981008
Author : Dr Elisabeth Arweck,Dr Mathew Guest
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409471165
Religions have always been associated with particular forms of knowledge, often knowledge accorded special significance and sometimes knowledge at odds with prevailing understandings of truth and authority in wider society. New religious movements emerge on the basis of reformulated, often controversial, understandings of how the world works and where ultimate meaning can be found. Governments have risen and fallen on the basis of such differences and global conflict has raged around competing claims about the origins and content of religious truth. Such concerns give rise to recurrent questions, faced by academics, governments and the general public. How do we treat statements made by religious groups and on what basis are they made? What authorities lie behind religious claims to truth? How can competing claims about knowledge be resolved? Are there instances when it is appropriate to police religious knowledge claims or restrict their public expression? This book addresses the relationship between religion and knowledge from a sociological perspective, taking both religion and knowledge as phenomena located within ever changing social contexts. It builds on historical foundations, but offers a distinctive focus on the changing status of religious phenomena at the turn of the twenty-first century. Including critical engagement with live debates about intelligent design and the ‘new atheism’, this collection of essays brings recent research on religious movements into conversation with debates about socialisation, reflexivity and the changing capacity of social institutions to shape human identities. Contributors examine religion as an institutional context for the production of knowledge, as a form of knowledge to be transmitted or conveyed and as a social field in which controversies about knowledge emerge.
Author : Jim Parry,Simon Robinson,Nick Watson,Mark Nesti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134136827
Exploring the spiritual dimensions of sport, this broad-ranging study takes a provocative look at the human aspects of the sport experience. It is a must-read for students of sport studies, sports coaching, and sport and health psychology.