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Healthcare and Spirituality is an introductory textbook which
emphasises the need to integrate spiritual issues in the process of
healthcare. It addresses the distance between patients and
healthcare professionals by using a patient-centred, holistic
approach known as the 'biopsychosocial model' or 'contextual care'.
It provides a framework to improve communication with patients and
their families and adopts a systems based approach covering a wide
range of caring environments. Healthcare professionals including
doctors, nurses, counsellors, therapists and others in caring
professions will find this book invaluable, as will undergraduate
healthcare students. It is also useful for religious or spiritual
leaders and workers.
Based on information gathered from the internationally used
Spiritual Needs Questionnaire, this book offers analyses of the
spiritual and existential needs among different groups of people
such as the chronically ill, elderly, adolescents, mothers of sick
children, refugees, patients' relatives, and others. The
theoretical background, specific empirical findings and the
relevance of addressing spiritual needs is discussed by experts
from different professions and cultural contexts. Supporting a
person's spiritual needs remains an important task of future
healthcare systems that wish to more comprehensively care for the
healthcare needs of patients, and of religious communities to
ensure that spiritual concerns of all persons, independent of their
religious orientations, are met in and outside healthcare settings.
This book explores the place of the body and embodied practices in
the production and experience of grace in order to generate
transformative futures. The authors offer a range of
phenomenologies in order to move the philosophical anchoring of
phenomenology from an abstracted European tradition into more open
and complex experiential sets of understandings. Grace is a sticky
word with many layers to it, and the authors explore this
complexity through a range of traditions, practices, and
autobiographical accounts. The goal is to open a grace-space for
reflection and action that is both futures-oriented and enlivening.
Listening for the Heartbeat of God presents a spirituality for
today, modeled on the vital characteristics of Celtic spirituality
through the centuries. Here is in emphasis on the essential
goodness of creation and of humanity made in the image of God. This
book traces the lines of Celtic spirituality from the British
church in the fourth century through to the twentieth century, in
the founder of the Iona Community, George Macleod. J. Phillip
Newell finds Celtic spiritual roots in the New Testament, in the
mysticism of St. John the Evangelist. John was especially
remembered as the one who lay against Jesus at the Last Supper and
heard the heartbeat of God. Hence he became a Celtic image of
listening to God in all of life. This fresh angle on Celtic
spirituality--linking figures in the Bible and in British Christian
history--will be warmly welcomed by all who are concerned to
refresh the roots of their faith. +
In a major original study, Graham Maddox analyses the role of
religion in the development of democracy from the tribes of ancient
Israel to the present day. The book contrasts Athenian direct
democracy with the Old Testament monarchy in which the concept of
religious opposition - vital to modern democracy - arose. Maddox
then develops his discussion of the relationship between religion
and democracy through early christianity to the Reformation and
Calvinism, ending with a chapter on modern democracy. Maddox's
contentious thesis concerning the development of democracy is truly
interdisciplinary drawing on political science, religious history
and theology.
From Ram Dass, one of America's most beloved spiritual figures and
bestselling author of Be Here Now and Be Love Now, comes this
timeless classic about the experience of being and the risks and
rewards of our spiritual path. Originally published in 1976, Grist
for the Mill offers a deep spiritual journey of self-discovery, and
a universal understanding of what it means to "be" and to grow as
human beings. The book is fully revised with a new introduction. As
Ram Dass puts it, "When the faith is strong enough it is sufficient
just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness,
towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has
taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche,
on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond
identification."
Why was an artist with no architectural experience inspired to
design and build a five-story spiral house made of stone? Can a
home designed as sacred architecture be a comfortable place to live
in the 21st century? How does living in a sacred space support
one's path to awakening? These questions are answered in the story
of artist Tom Gottsleben and his wife, Patty Livingston, who spent
20 years exploring what it means to build and live in a home
designed as sacred space. This inspiring and informative book tells
of Tom's years exploring stone sculpture and landscaping walls, his
lifelong spiritual practice, accidental discovery of sacred
geometry, and how Patty's pragmatic nature grounded the project in
the practicalities of a comfortable home. Although this is the
personal story of one couple's journey and their beautiful home and
joyful approach to life, its purpose is to attune readers to seeing
and creating sacred space in their own lives.
This is a rare piece of empirical research, which reveals the
workings of a spiritual order, its leadership, as well as their
approaches, methods and tools. It demonstrates how the seekers, who
were partly drug addicts and HIV patients, and the general segment
of this Order, have been able to positively transform themselves. A
multidisciplinary approach enlightens the analysis and discussion
by bringing together spirituality, psychology, neuroscience as well
as organisational development, to produce a rich tapestry of first
hand insights. This book provides an integrated approach to
understanding the landscape of a spiritual order primarily using a
mixed method and a holistic approach with a particular focus on
Islam. Qualitative examples include interpretivistic
phenomenological approaches and neuro-linguistic programming. The
book highlights the positive impact of worship by providing
practical guidance and suggestions on how to spiritually improve
oneself. This dualistic approach generated a working model for
spiritual leadership and self-development. The unsuspecting but
important link of spirituality to the United Nations sustainable
development goals (SDGs) is highlighted and discussed, which needs
to be factored into the global development narrative. The text is
primarily for researchers, yet has a secondary use for students and
general readership given the comprehensive review establishing a
conceptual framework for worship and morality.
Sometimes what we already "know" about Jesus gets in the way of
our really knowing him.
Many depictions of Jesus show him as a character who coolly and
calmly floats above the grit and grime of human existence. He
doesn't hurt, he doesn't fear, he doesn t laugh and, most
tragically, he doesn t love very passionately. He seems not to feel
at all. But a closer look at the Bible reveals something
surprisingly different.
In this eye-opening spiritual study, Peter Wallace examines
Jesus s actions as well as his teachings to uncover a passionate
figure who was involved, present, connected, honest and direct with
others. Through Wallace s deeply personal insights and compelling
examples, you will be encouraged to model this passionate Jesus by
building personal authenticity in every area of your own life,
particularly in your self-acceptance and self-expression, your
relationships with others and, above all, your relationship with
God."
This volume contains papers on both medieval and modern aspects of
Muslim-Jewish relations. For the medieval period, there is a
diverse treatment of literary and philosophical issues. The mutual
influence of Islamic and Jewish texts is explored, as well as the
perceptions Muslim and Jewish writers had about each other. The
subject matter of these papers is diverse - Isral'iliyat
literature, Arabic wine-poetry, Hebrew allegorical poetry and
Jewish exegetical commentary. The interdependence of Muslim-Jewish
intellectual life is emphasized here. The papers on the modern
period all deal with Muslim-Jewish relations in the wake of the
sweeping historical, institutional and political changes which have
characterized the modern Middle East. There are papers dealing with
new definitions of Judaism and Zionism for example that can only be
understood against the background of pre-modern ideas but which are
specific to the pressures and needs of contemporary life. From a
different perspective, there is also a study of language learning
as an indication of new and promising social relations.
The studies in this volume are drawn together from a widely
scattered set of publications, many difficult of access. They
exemplify the variety of influences - religious, cultural,
political - that interacted in Syria in Late Antiquity, and the
range of responses that these evoked in changing historical
circumstances. The first section of the book is concerned with the
development of Syriac Christianity, with particular articles
looking at the relations between Christians and Jews, and at the
position of holy men. There follow two sections focusing on
Marcionism and on Manichaeism, while the final studies examine
aspects of Syriac Christianity after the Arab conquests.
This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine
groups-including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the
iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various "Catholic" schisms,
such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or
the reappearance of the Virgin Mary. Eleven contributing authors
offer rich ethnographies and sociological insights on new spiritual
groups that highlight the quintessential features of Quebec's new
religions ("sectes" in the francophone media). The editors argue
that Quebec provides a favorable "ecology" for alternative
spirituality, and explore the influences behind this situation: the
rapid decline of the Catholic Church after Vatican Il; the "Quiet
Revolution," a utopian faith in Science; the 1975 Charter of Human
Rights and Freedoms; and an open immigration that welcomes diverse
faiths. The themes of Quebec nationalism found in prophetic
writings that fuel apocalyptic ferment are explored by the editors
who find in these sectarian communities echoes of Quebec's larger
Sovereignty movement.
Winner, 2018 Paul J. Foik Award for Best Book on Catholic History
in the American Southwest, presented by the Texas Catholic
Historical Society The remarkable history of the Santuario de
Chimayo, the church whose world-renowned healing powers have drawn
visitors to its steps for centuries. Nestled in a valley at the
feet of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, the Santuario
de Chimayo has been called the most important Catholic pilgrimage
site in America. To experience the Santuario's miraculous healing
dirt, pilgrims and visitors first walk into the cool, adobe church,
proceeding up an aisle to the altar with its magnificent crucifix.
They then turn left to enter a low-slung room filled with cast-off
crutches, a statue of the Santo Nino de Atocha, and photos of
thousands of people who have been prayed for in the exact spot they
are standing. An adjacent room, stark by contrast, contains little
but a hole in the floor, known as the pocito. From this well in the
earth, the Santuario's half a million annual visitors gather
handfuls of holy dirt, celebrated for two hundred years for its
purported healing properties. The book tells the fascinating
stories of the Pueblo and Nuevomexicano Catholic origins of the
site and the building of the church, the eventual transfer of the
property to the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, and the modern
pilgrimage of believers alongside thousands of tourists. Drawing on
extensive archival research as well as fieldwork in Chimayo, Brett
Hendrickson examines the claims that various constituencies have
made on the Santuario, its stories, dirt, ritual life, commercial
value, and aesthetic character. The importance of the story of the
Santuario de Chimayo goes well beyond its sacred dirt, to
illuminate the role of Southwestern Hispanics and Catholics in
American religious history and identity. The healing powers and
marvel of the Santuario shine through the pages of Hendrickson's
book, allowing readers of all kinds to feel like they have stepped
inside an institution in American and religious history.
A Little Light on the Spiritual Laws sets out clearly and simply 36
Spiritual Laws which govern life on Earth. Vividly illustrated with
stories and metaphors, it shows how to achieve prosperity, success,
gratitude and purification. If you do not understand the rules of
the game you cannot play in the top league. In the same way you
cannot be happy, healthy and successful until you understand the
Laws of Life. This book offers a definitive, accessible guide to
mastering life and when practised at the highest level, it contains
the keys to heaven.
"Waiting For Eli: A Father's Journey from Fear to Faith" is a
176-page hardcover book about a Lafayette, La., couple and their
infant son Eli who was born with a dreaded birth defect called
spina bifida. It is an inspiring story of faith, hope and the power
of prayer. The book takes us on an emotional roller coaster ride,
starting with the day the author first learns of his son's medical
condition. This moving story has a strong pro-life, pro-love
message, and is made even more compelling by the author's
descriptions of little miracles along the way.
Become inspired, find your voice, and create work that matters. Why
are human beings driven to make? It's as if we collectively
intuited, long before science gave us the language, that the
universe bends toward entropy, and every act of creation on our
part is an act of defiance in the face of that evolving disorder.
When we pick up a paintbrush, or compose elements through our
camera viewfinders, or press fingers into wet clay to wrestle form
from a shapeless lump, we are bending things back toward Order and
wrestling them from Chaos. But making things is often not enough.
We also want the things we make to be filled with meaning. We're
each trying to describe what we know about life, to create a
collective sense of "safety in numbers." When we reach the end of
our traditional descriptive powers, it's time to weave collective
meaning from poetry, painting, writing, dancing, photographing,
filmmaking, storytelling, singing, animating, designing,
performing, carving, sculpting, and a million other ways we daily
create Order out of the Chaos and share it with each other for
comfort. On this journey we need a creative philosophy which will
help us find our voice, discover our message, deal with the
responses to our work, maintain inspiration, and stay mentally
healthy and motivated creators as we strive to find "the meaning in
the making." Table of Contents Chapter 1: Order Chapter 2: Logos
Chapter 3: Breath Chapter 4: Voice Chapter 5: Ego Chapter 6:
Control Chapter 7: Attention Chapter 8: Envy Chapter 9: Critique
Chapter 10: Feel Chapter 11: Shadows Chapter 12: Meaning Chapter
13: Time Chapter 14: Benediction
This book explores border crossing among pragmatism, spirituality
and society. It opens up American pragmatism to dialogues with
pragmatism and spiritual quest from other traditions such as India
and China thus making contemporary pragmatism a part of much needed
planetary conversations. It cultivates new visions and practices of
spiritual pragmatism building upon the seminal works of Charles
Sanders Pierce, William James, Sri Aurobindo, John Dewey, Martin
Heidegger, Mahatma Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Ludwig Wittgenstein and
Luce Irigaray which can help us rethink and transform conventional
conceptions and constructions of practice, pragmatism, language,
religion, politics, society, culture and democracy and create new
relationships of pragmatism, spirituality and society.
In Drawing Near, John Bevere invites readers to explore a life of
intimacy with God. Emphasizing the need for obedience, he urges us
to practice-just as we would practice anything we hope to
improve-our communication with the Holy Spirit. Understanding that
prayer is a dialogue, not a monologue, Bevere encourages us to
listen at the Father's feet. Study questions in each chapter offer
opportunity for reflection, and a "How to draw near to God" section
offers practical steps toward developing true intimacy with Him.
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