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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"spiritual quest"”.
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Spiritual Quest in French and English Post-War Novels
The spiritual quest deals mainly with God and what he represents for man. It dramatizes the search for ultimate significance and direction in life. In the face of banal preoccupations and pressures towards conformity, secularization and demythologization, some men pursue a transcendent ideal which …
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Spiritual quest as aesthetic vision: aspects of T.S. Eliot's poetics as related to his literary works
… developed in three stages which chart the poet's spiritual progress from the despair of the early poems through the confession and contrition of "The Hollow Men" and "Ash Wednesday" , to the sense of illumination and beatitude in Four Quartets. This progression, which reflects the pattern of the …
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A Journey through trauma: a memoir about grief, healing, memory, trauma, spiritual quest and social justice
I am finally getting used to being home. Two weeks into 2013, I have the kind of routine reserved for unemployed recent graduates. I wake up and try to convince myself to run. On the days where the tedium of being in Centurion wins out, I lace up, push the gate open and put my earphones in. I take …
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Presence in Distance: the Lived Experience of Adult Faith Formation in an Online Learning Community
… nature and meaning of community, especially the spiritual quest to contemplate the face of Christ in an online community. The study offers a deep understanding of the meaning of presence and the development of community in the context of faith. Serving as the philosophical methodological …
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Transition to Manhood Thwarted: Struggles Portrayed Through Images
… images when interpreted symbolically express a spiritual quest linked with a sexual identification conflict. Symbolic images produced in the art point to the emergence of an archetypal pattern of initiation marking the transition into manhood. When a man remains in adolescent psychology too long …
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Envisioning a Career With Purpose: Calling and Its Spiritual Underpinnings Among College Students
… current study tested the hypothesis that student spirituality would relate positively to the construct of calling and that these constructs together would lead toward career decidedness. To test this model, a sample consisting of 1139 students from a large Midwest university was surveyed. Results …
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The contribution of the (Carnegie) Non-European Library Service, Transvaal, to the development of library services for Africans in South Africa : an historical and evaluative study
… the role of the library in the African's spiritual quest for cultural awakening and upliftment.
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Believing Anew: Gianni Vattimo and A Form of Faith in Contemporary Culture
… in searching for something that willprovidea spiritual nourishment or enrichment fortheir lives. While the goal isto encounter somethingthat lies beyondourown selves, the seeker and their own personal experience remainsat the heart of this spiritual quest. As aseeker, oneis free to search, to …
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Learning by Wandering: Using Technology to Nourish the Spirit
… of the nature of learning and to address the question of how to use technology in education to nourish the human spirit. To do this, I use a combination of critical and historical analysis. I reconnect first of all with my native ancient Irish culture. From this perspective, I gain an …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… break through tightening social, artistic, and spiritual strictures of postwar America. The East-West cross-fermentation which developed after the war provided these poets with an inroad for post-Modernist textual and philosophical experimentation set against a backdrop of Cold War anxieties, …
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The rhetoric of autobiography : analysis of autobiographical writings of militant civil-rights leaders.
… Newton uses narrative to portray his life as a quest for justice and equality for blacks. Newton uses narrative to create an environment which serves as the motive for his violent actions. The narrative created by Newton shifts the blame for racial tension away from militant blacks and places …
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Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre
The Medieval English dream vision evidence influences from a variety of earlier vision literature, notably the apocalyptic vision and narrative dream. Philosophical visions by Plato, Cicero and Boethius, and Christian revelations of John and Paul contain traits that found their way into the dream …
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Toward the still point : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets and Thoreau's Walden
… Eliot in Four Quartets adds another layer of his spiritual goals beyond those expressed in Walden, he expresses his religio-philosophical quest for Incarnational "still point[s] of the turning world" (Burnt Norton 62) using autobiographical aspects and poetic tropes that are in many ways …