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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"spiritual journey"”.
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Imagined Communions: One Woman's Spiritual Journey
… and photographs. This imagined communion is spiritual because it is imagined, articulated by print or multi-media rather than through physical human interaction. The concept of imagined communions is applied to Miller's textual methods when the researcher considers the links between the past …
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A Mother's Spiritual Journey with Her Disabled Son: An Autoethnography
… of medicine, education, career, family, and spirituality. Models of disability that seek to explain various ways in which society often views disability are examined, but none resonate with the researcher’s intimate experiences nor satisfies her deepest needs for insight and healing. Making a …
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Art for Life: A Spiritual Journey of Art and the Bonds of Community
… a way to live differently coupled with a spiritual connection and life-purpose, has caused me to take action in unexpected ways resulting in outcomes of revelation. In pursuit ways to re-connect to the significance of community, an exploration of my personal role and the role of art became …
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Art for Life: A Spiritual Journey of Art and the Bonds of Community
… a way to live differently coupled with a spiritual connection and life-purpose, has caused me to take action in unexpected ways resulting in outcomes of revelation. In pursuit ways to re-connect to the significance of community, an exploration of my personal role and the role of art became …
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…and… between I and Thou: stretching metaxic space for children as seen from the perspective of my own spiritual journey
… a diacritical hermeneutic of my own life and spiritual journey, which includes multiple ‘horizons’, in order to interpret the children’s responses. Finding the notion of the hermeneutical circle inadequate I have developed a dialectical hermeneutical, resonating and oscillating spiral, which …
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Thomas Merton : life, work & thoughts on Zen
… seeks to illustrate how Thomas Merton's life, spiritual journey, work and understanding of Zen is still relevant to contemporary religious challenges. Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, had a unique spiritual journey with the ability to be open to new experiences and to embrace the good in other …
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Sacred Threshold: An Examination of the Threshold in a Catholic Church for Hispanic Immigrants
… of an oppressed people and their subsequent journey to and arrival at the Promised Land. In the Christian Church, this journey continues in the lives of believers. The spiritual journey begins with salvation, continues with a repeated process of suffering and redemption, and terminates with …
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T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy
… <em>Sutras</em>, also forms the basis of a yogic spiritual journey in the poem.</p> <p>Delving deeply into how yoga philosophy likely inspired T.S. Eliot gives a foundation for a close reading of <em>The Waste Land</em> as a spiritual journey. By reading the poem in this way, we not only better …
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A Cheerio Tastes Like the Body of Christ: A Memoir
… Karen Kaufmann This memoir documents my personal spiritual journey from childhood to present day. I have selected six events from my history that illustrate this theme. The memoir describes my family’s strong connection to the Roman Catholic religion, my participation in following the dogma of the …
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A Cheerio Tastes Like the Body of Christ: A Memoir
… Karen Kaufmann This memoir documents my personal spiritual journey from childhood to present day. I have selected six events from my history that illustrate this theme. The memoir describes my family’s strong connection to the Roman Catholic religion, my participation in following the dogma of the …
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Personal Jesus and Other True Stories
… relationships, struggles with depression, and my spiritual journey as a search for emotional healing. These stories, written in loosely braided formats, take place in such settings as the family farm in Missouri where my mother grew up, a redwood forest on the coast of California, and a Spiritist …
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Spirituality and Leadership
… language of leadership is becoming increasingly spiritualized. Terms more often found in the sanctuary are now being applied to the leadership domain. Without a clear understanding of each, confusion results. This research explored the common boundaries between spirituality and leadership. Ten …
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Faith and Leadership: The Spiritual Journeys of Transformational Leaders
… the human community. Faith development and the spiritual journey can be viewed as providing a context for transformational leadership because they involve an individual's search for self-transcendence and ultimate meaning in life. This search is a process that includes movement towards wholeness …
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The Paradox of the Christian Poet: George Herbert's Problematics
… vacillations within The Temple to Herbert's own "spiritual conflicts" as a Christian poet. The thesis explores the poems as interconnected expressions of Herbert's dual nature as Christian-Poet. The thesis discusses over sixty of Herbert's poems, concentrating on close readings and intratextual …
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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground
… which provides a musical reflection of the human spiritual journey to the afterlife. It examines how Brahms brings his chosen texts to life with the aid of musical processes such as mixture, register transfer, coupling, covering lines, and contrasting textures. The present study will cite previous …
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God in the Darkness: Mysticism and Paradox in the Poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.
… the intensely personal nature of Herbert's spiritual journey. Only then can the full extent of his influence on Vaughan be understood.</p>
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Hit-and-Runs: A Memoir
… while tracing the narrator’s coming-of-age and spiritual journey from the mountains of Appalachia to the streets of Prague and home to Houston, as she “runs” with carnies and psychics, hurricane refugees, lovers, and predators from whom she must escape. Interspersed in these memoirs are lyrics …
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A search for spiritual integration
My paintings are about a spiritual journey. They act as a visual description as well as a vehicle for the journey itself. For me this journey has included an exploration of utopian visions and a spiritual ideal, as well as the struggle to integrate spirituality into my life. I consider contextual …
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And the Word Became Flesh: Visual Thoughts on the Book of John
… both suites visually represent the author's spiritual journey and resultant artistic growth.</p>
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