Browsing by Subject "Spirituality"
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Analyzing the Crisis of Hilma af Klint: The Digital and Analog Analysis of Spirituality, Abstraction, and Art
(2018)Hilma af Klint, an oft-cited but underresearched Swedish artist, is often included in art historical literature on art and spirituality. And yet, the assumed art world affinity between Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and other ... -
Caring and thriving: An international qualitative study of caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children and strategies to sustain positive mental health
(Children and Youth Services Review, 2019-03-01)© 2018 Background: Child well-being is associated with caregiver mental health. Research has focused on the absence or presence of mental health problems, such as depression, in caregivers. However, positive mental health ... -
Embodied Attention: Learning from the Wisdom of the Desert and Saint Augustine in an Age of Distraction
(2014)Throughout the life of the Church, certain habits have been cultivated to shape the identity of its community and deepen our communion with God. We see in the writings of the Desert Fathers that attentiveness is one habit ... -
For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God
(2019)This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the relationshipbetween sport and spiritual formation. By inviting to the conversation contributionsfrom sociological research, personal narratives, biblical themes ... -
Got spirit? The spiritual climate scale, psychometric properties, benchmarking data and future directions.
(BMC health services research, 2017-02-11)Organizations that encourage the respectful expression of diverse spiritual views have higher productivity and performance, and support employees with greater organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Within healthcare, ... -
Keeping it Beta: Social Innovation & The Black Church. A Case for Strategy, Design & Social Change.
(2022)God created . . . and it was good. People of faith are a part of God’s work of creation that from the beginning of time has created and innovated without fail. A mantra of the ecumenical Black Church is that we serve a God ... -
Probing LAUDATO SI' For a New Spirituality in a Technocratic Culture
(2017)Pope Francis’ 2015 social encyclical Laudato si’ provides a challenging, helpful, and timely lens through which to view this cultural moment. By analyzing the reception of this encyclical, its structure and sources, and ... -
Quantum Regimes: Genealogies of Virtual Matter and Healing the New Age Body
(2021)This dissertation makes sense of New Age healing practices and the spiritual currents undergirding the increasingly popular landscape of alternative healthcare. To do so, it argues, we must first determine its material ontology ... -
Re-membering Identities: Terror, Exile and Rebirth in Hispanic Film and Literature
(2010)This dissertation examines fictional representations of Argentine and Spanish authoritarianism from the position of exiled, traumatized and/or marginalized subjects. Though the primary texts and films engage questions of ... -
Relational Hermeneutics: A Womanist's Approach for Renewing the Reader's Self-Understanding, Commitments, and Practices
(2021)How do readers regain their enthusiasm for reading Scripture when what they are reading does not relate to their life’s circumstances? With all the competing voices in the world today, readers find it challenging to ... -
Relational Hermeneutics: A Womanist's Approach for Renewing the Reader's Self-Understanding, Commitments, and Practices
(2021)How do readers regain their enthusiasm for reading Scripture when what they are reading does not relate to their life’s circumstances? With all the competing voices in the world today, readers find it challenging to ... -
Social, Evangelical, and Contemplative Approaches to Spiritual Formation in the Baptist Tradition
(2018)A precise definition for Christian spiritual formation is elusive and how it is described varies from one faith tradition to another. It also varies over periods of time, as a faith community meets the challenges which they ... -
Speaking Into Silence: Services of Hope and Healing for Today's Congregations
(2019)As many theologians and pastors have pointed out, there is much fertile ground to be discovered in combining worship with intentional pastoral care and vice versa. This concept of pastoral care being integrated into worship ... -
Spiritualities of the Displaced: An Ethnographic Study of the Lived Faith of Homeless Persons
(2013)My dissertation is a project of practical theology that starts with the problem of homelessnesss. It seeks to better understand the lived faith of homeless persons by listening to the voices of the extreme poor. It asserts ... -
The Dream Refinery: Psychics, Spirituality and Hollywood in Los Angeles
(2016)This ethnography examines the relationship between mass-mediated aspirations and spiritual practice in Los Angeles. Creative workers like actors, producers, and writers come to L.A. to pursue dreams of stardom, especially ... -
The Future of Christian Identity in the Episcopal Church
(2017)Recent surveys show that the number of Americans who claim no affiliation with a church body has doubled in the last decade. In addition to the unaffiliated, those who are affiliated with a church body are spending less ... -
This Tragedy Is Not Unto Death: Strength-Based Youth Development and Trauma-Informed Care for Church-Connected Youth
(2020)In observing the practice of youth ministry in the church, I have come to recognize the huge disparity between the needs of church-connected youth and what traditional communities of faith have offered them in the way of ... -
Toward an Ecclesiology of Presence: Understanding the Church as a Thin Place Where Heaven Touches Earth through the People of God
(2022)In a world that often seems to be burning around us, both literally and figuratively, it is difficult to notice a single burning bush. In a world deafened by the noise of the loudest and most powerful voices, the still ...
