Spirituality

matter where a person lives a community is always near. Communities are usually a place that has a certain feel with the people within the community. Four themes that are a part of almost every community and leaves an impact in today’s world are spirituality, women’s issues, sustainability, and social justice. These themes may touch base with some and to others not at all, but in the end they are present in almost all lives. Each theme has an individualized definition and idea, but when the four…

Church: Spirituality Verses Religion Religion has always been a major part of the American culture and many other cultures under varying forms of practice. It is a huge field of study being very complex in nature that psychologist and other scholars struggle understanding. Thus, provoking much research based on various hypothesis and theories of religion verses spirituality and the significance to mental health. “Original Work”: Although the value of spirituality to mental health has…

With an increased interest in integrating religion and spirituality is credited to a common worldly social practice, through cultural acceptance and education. In this role, religion is focused on spiritual diversity. The primary focus appears to be from a human experience that is rooted in practices of eclectic…

The active, written, discursive pursuit of the incomprehensible established in Rahner’s writing acts as a form of spirituality. In this way, self-reflexivity grounded in tradition develops as spiritual theology. Evident in Ronald Modras’ Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the 21st Century, Patrick Byrne’s “The Passionateness of Being: The Legacy of Bernard Lonergan”, and Bernard Lonergan’s “Method in Theology” and “Healing and Creating in History”, I will focus on how…

Each clinician will have his or her own way of defining his or her own religion and spirituality. However, it is vital that he or she does not then impose their definition on individuals, couples, and families since it would no longer be about their presenting problem, but how they fit into the clinician’s view of religion and the family.…

Ivan Yefremov’s The Nur-i-desht Observatory conveys ideas of spirituality and other worldly powers; however, when discovered that the source of renewal and everlasting joy comes not from the temple-esque observatory, but instead from worldly and rational radium, it becomes not a place of serenity and human development, but instead, one of scientific discovery. The battle between a spiritual awakening or a stimulant inducing elation forces a question about the existence of divine encounters,…

Religious and Spiritual views on homosexuality Religion and spirituality are two linked yet distinct areas associated with faith that can either be combined or treated individually overall. Nowadays, people are becoming losing faith therefore becoming less religious and motivated to believe in a religion, or in spirituality due to the shift in society’s expectations. Religion organizes or formalizes spirituality. Spirituality is more like an individual practice and has to do with having a sense…

beautiful natural phenomenon, but as an appreciation of the mythological history behind it. Not everyone believes in such narratives, but perhaps these narratives, fictional or not, are put into place to create and maintain the connection between spirituality and nature. Maui, the demigod, and humans have altered nature for personal preferences. However,…

The Dreaming is a fundamental tenet of Aboriginal spirituality which refers to their spiritual beliefs about creation and existence. The Dreaming encapsulates all wisdom and perception of reality in Aboriginal societies hence is crucial to all thoughts and actions of Aboriginal spirituality.The Dreaming is inextricably intertwined to the land because it is the medium through which the Dreaming and ancestral spirits is communicated to on a metatemporal plane. The Dreaming also holds an the…

have wanted to be a nurse. Not just a regular Register Nurse but a Pediatrician Oncology Nurse. That is why I have decided to write this paper on how children with cancer use religion in their lives at such a critical time, how their parents use spirituality to cope, and spiritual distress. In the article, Seminars in Oncology Nursing, it states “Spiritual integrity is a basic human need, the perceived spirit within each individual as a driving force giving mean to life for that individual.”…