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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Spiritualities"”.
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Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities
… between emerging and traditional Christian spiritualities are centered on the locus of authority and the role of community, areas this dissertation explores.</p> <p>"Spirituality" is emerging in unexpected ways and places, defying widespread predictions of secularization, leading some …
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Moral geographies of social justice and the city : theologies, spatialities and spiritualities in urban Scotland
The emerging geographical research field of moral geography is charting out new connections between geography and ethics. To date, the moral geographical literature has developed a theoretical apparatus for exploring the geography-ethics nexus, and has undertaken a number of empirical …
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Critiquing the Soul of White Supremacy and the Spiritualities of Whiteness: Narrative and Everyday Praxis
<p>This dissertation argues that whiteness and the oppressive structures it creates are maintained, managed, and justified by the religio-cultural tools of white Christians in greater Fort Wayne, IN. This dissertation studies the relationship among the repertoires of white Christians, racism, and …
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Reflective waypoints and relational bridging: a phenomenological exploration of spiritualities in therapeutic relationships between women living with borderline personality disorder and mental health nurses
Relational engagement with whole persons, body, mind and soul is the heart of compassionate recovery-orientated mental health nursing, yet spirituality continues to pose theoretical and practical dilemmas for service users, policy-makers, nurses and educators. This study examines ways in which the …
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Spiritual Direction with Women Who Have Autoimmune Diseases: A Model of Psychospiritual Care
… them establish and/or sustain well-integrated spiritualities and life-enhancing relationships with God/the transcendent (a naming convention that reflects diverse spiritualities and spiritual direction practices). Evaluation of medical, psychological, and pastoral caregiving approaches finds …
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Conspirituality in the Age of TikTok: A Thematic Analysis of #AgeofAquarius
… within New Religious Movements and alternative spiritualities on social media, the field of cyberethnography, and further illuminates the convergence between conspiracy theories and New Age beliefs.
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Space of Interfaith: Transcending Religious Boundaries to Reach Mutual Understanding
… merged to create a cohesive environment for all spiritualities. By creating a space for interfaith relationships, religion can be used as a resource for dialogue, communal understanding, and peacebuilding.
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Religion in Contemplative Studies
… of religious studies critiques of mind-centered “spiritualities.” In contrast to analyses of “spirituality” as a consumerist conceit, such as Carrette and King’s Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion (2004), many contemplative studies advocates are working to orient the field …
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Relational learning for a sustainable future: An eco -spiritual model
… to care and connect, as well as cultivating spiritualities rooted in wonder and the miracle of being, we may yet discover the capacity to create patterns of living and being that will promote a sustainable future.</p>
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The Augustinian canons in the Diocese of Worcester and their relation to secular and ecclesiastical powers in the Later Middle Ages
… parish churches is considered. The importance of spiritualities for the canons and whether or not the canons undertook parish ministry serve as the key points of exploration in the search for the Augustinian identity. l
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Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century
… forms of spirituality, and also, how these spiritualities seem to serve as precursors to arguably more noticeable changes in the High and Late Middle Ages.</p>
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Community, connection, caring : towards a Christian feminist practical theology of older women
… would complement other developing theologies and spiritualities of older women. At the same time, it would be flexible and provisional, taking on board new developments and data as they arise-particularly as succeeding generations of women age-and intentionally incorporating them.
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Spiritual healing in search of an identity: analysis of spiritual healers’ own accounts of healing in Britain from 1900 to 1965
… Woodhead (2005) as an integral part of New Age ‘spiritualities of life’. This research questions these assumptions and explores the background to contemporary presentations of spiritual healing by looking at the diverse range of spiritual healing modalities which were being practised in Britain …
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Toroidal Dance: A Yogic Perspective of Choreography, Transdisciplinarity, and Dance Dramaturgy
… and rooting myself in the framework of dance and spiritualities studies, I define my research as a toroidal fractal structure of seven layers, namely transdisciplinarity, yogic science (subtle nature), toroidal pattern, healing, dance dramaturgy (as subtle communication), multidimensionality, and …
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The Saving Grace of Spiritual Activities and Perceptions of God: Assessing Differences in Managing Anxiety for Spiritual Majorities and Minorities
… with traditional faiths or belong to minority spiritualities may not use the same coping mechanisms. The current study sought to contribute to the literature by obtaining a better understanding of whether the use of traditional spiritual activities and perceptions of God are different for …
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Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780
… and Christian doctrines and indigenous spiritualities. Prodigal Sons thus enriches and complicates our understanding of cultural interaction between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans in the most formative period of those encounters.</p>
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Being Good Women: The Rise and Appeal of Femininity Among Globalist Women
This thesis is focused on ethics as a practice of becoming. It examines a large, growing group of geographically dispersed women united in their devotion to a neo-Buddhist relationship guru who instructs them, online, in the embodiment of femininity as the means to realizing success in their …
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Espiritualidades e bem-estar espiritual no processo formativo de estudante de psicologia do Recife – PE à luz da abordagem integral/transpessoal
Esta dissertação investigou as perspectivas de espiritualidades e os índices de bem-estar espiritual em estudantes calouros/as e formandos/as das graduações em psicologia da FAFIRE e da UFPE, correlacionando-os com os processos de formação. Questionamos se e como as espiritualidades são …
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Te ahi tawhito, te ahi tipua, te ahi nā Mahuika: Re-igniting native women’s ceremony
This research examines the multiple ways in which Māori, and Hawai’ian and Native American women, are re-activating feminine ceremonial forms and recovering sacred relationships with customary feminine deities. Attention is focused on the creation of personal ritual practices that respond to …