Methods Of Prayer Research Articles

Implementation of Prenatal Children's Education in an Islamic Perspective (Implementasi Pendidikan Anak Prenatal dalam Perspektif Islam)

This article aims to analyze the implementation of prenatal education for children in an Islamic perspective and what factors influence the implementation of prenatal education for children in Pekon Sukamara, Bulok District, Tanggamus Regency. The research was conducted qualitatively with a descriptive approach, where data was collected through observation, interviews and documentation studies. The analysis was carried out in three stages, namely data reduction, data presentation and verification. The results of the study show that parents (pregnant women and their families) have implemented what prenatal education is and have done it through several methods including song methods, prayer methods, prayer methods, kinesthetic methods, storytelling/communication methods, listening to recitation methods at the taklim assembly, audio method, dhikr method, relaxation method. Then the factors that encourage and inhibit the process of educating a child in the womb are economic factors, educational factors, environmental factors, family conditions, emotional factors and support from the people around them.Keywords: Prenatal Education, Islam

МУЗЫКАЛЬНЫЕ И ВЕРБАЛЬНЫЕ КОМПОНЕНТЫ В МУСУЛЬМАНСКОМ БОГОСЛУЖЕНИИ

To begin with that is well known fact that any traditional culture (including Islamic culture) is variable in its nature. The regional component of divine service (Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Moscow) is a specific factor of modification in this article. Moreover, it is assumed that the objective reason of the appearance of regional features of the researched musical material could be the vastness of the Russian territory and the relative distance of mosques in provincial cities from the Kazan center. By the way, despite the different ways of musical intoning, the sacred word of the Koran remains unchanged, and variability is the universal principle of any traditional culture. The ritual-plastic side introduces a special feature in the chanting of juma-namaz, the Friday prayer, that is prescribed by the Koran (obligatory collective prayer of Muslims is performed on Friday during the noon prayers in mosques). Actually in any religious cult prayer practice is associated with certain bodily movements that are determined not only the nature of vocal intonation, but often with the direction of the melodic movement. Moreover, this interconnection of musical and plastic intonations in chanting of juma-namaz deserves a separate consideration. The ritual gestures are strictly defined. They are canonized not only by gestures and movements, but also with what verbal formula they must be coincided. The main complex of ritual movements in juma-namaz is concentrated in “dramatic heart” of worship. It is concentrated two rak’ahat-standing (the canonized order of words and actions that constitute the Muslim prayer). The supreme variety of movements is “Takbir” (exaltation of God), which includes a waist-bow and straightening, two earthly bows and seats, a waist-bow and straightening after a bow. The gestures can be changed during one chant or in the transition between two chants. The special cohesion of bodily and melodic movements is singled out the hymns of rak'ah in general. By the way, if in the first two chants attention is focused on intense melodic movement in a relatively unfolded vocal form, in “Takbir”, on the contrary, the relative “low mobility” and shortness of melodic structures “the score” of body movements is richer. Taking everything into account, the body movement is not an end in itself. It is just one of the ways of expressing the prayer state of the soul, which is in some way consistent with other methods – words and melodies. In this case, the art of the singing also acts as one of the methods of prayer and it determines not only by the proper musical patterns (it is secondary), but it mostly determines be the tajwid (the rules of reading the Koran).

MENJAGA KESEHATAN MENTAL DENGAN PENDEKATAN SHALAT: ANALISIS SANAD DAN MATAN HADIS

Abstract
 This paper seeks to open insight into the study of psychology that is in the Sunnah, regarding mental health. As one source of teachings in Islam, the Hadith contains information and knowledge, including mental health problems in the world of psychology today. With the approach of the study of sanad and matan hadith, the writer tries to explore texts that discuss the topic of mental health and its relevance in the hadith. then it can be concluded that 1) maintaining mental health in the perspective of the Sunnah based on the idea of ​​moderation in meeting the needs of life with a spirituality approach and, 2) the method of spiritual Hadith realizing mental health, among others by praying as a solution to mental illness. Achievements by the method of prayer can be seen from the lives of prophets and friends, with themselves, relationships with others, and the universe that all come together in harmony.

SINCERITY: A VALUE REALITY IN BUILDING RELIGIOSITY FOR ACCOUNTING STUDENTS

This research aims to describe the value reality in building religiosity for accounting students. This research uses spiritual paradigm with qualitative approach and ulul albab perspective in constructing ontological, epistemological, and research method. The data was obtained through observation, interviews, and library research in one of the reputable Islamic-based universities in Indonesia which has an accounting program. Using the methods of prayer, dhikr , tafakkur , and tawakkal , this research has succeeded in describing the value as a reflection of faith. Therefore, it is expected that accounting education is able to produce students with religious, amanah , and noble character.

Catechesis and its Six Tasks

The aim of catechesis is not simply to give information to interlocutors about the Catholic faith. Catechesis seeks to do much more than this, with its ultimate aim being that of putting the human being in communion with Christ. This is achieved through the six tasks of catechesis which need to be deeply embedded in human experiences. The six tasks through which catechesis seeks to achieve its endeavours include: knowledge of the faith, liturgical education, moral formation, formation in prayer and methods of prayer, education for community life and missionary initiation.

Teresas Weg des inneren Betens

The article begins with a quick look at the historical context, while the presentation of St Teresa’s path of mental prayer follows the stages of her biography: Beginning of mental prayer (1), Confirmation (2), Finding own method of prayer (3), Crises (4), Consequences (5), Practice of mental prayer (6), Fruit of prayer (7).

Liturgia das horas: a memória de Cristo ao longo do dia

A liturgia das Horas é um métodode oração que nos coloca emhoras determinadas em comunhãocom Cristo e, assim, nos mantémimersos no seu mistério pascal, Temsua fonte na tradição judaica, que acada três horas costuma fazer, atravésdo canto dos salmos, a memóriade Deus Criador, a fim de reforçaros compromissos da Aliança. A Igrejaprimitiva seguiu a mesma intuição,direcionando-a a Cristo. Mas foi, aospoucos, transformando esta oraçãopreciosa de todos os cristãos em umaoração de alguns membros seletos,ligados geralmente à vida sacerdotal,monástica ou consagrada. A reformado Concílio Vaticano II restaurou aliturgia das Horas e pretende queseja devolvida a todos os fiéis.

Healing Through Prayer

A qualitative study using a semistructured interview process explored the experience of being healed through prayer in 20 participants from several Protestant Christian faith traditions. Five cluster themes and their subthemes were identified, such as Spirituality and Suffering (subthemes of Purpose of Suffering and Spiritual Meaning of Suffering); The Healing Experience (subthemes of Problems that Were Healed, Incomplete Healings or Recurrences, and Healing of Friends and Family Members); The Connecting Network of Prayer (subthemes of Connection to God, Connection to Others, Meaning of Prayer, Methods of Prayer, and Unanswered Prayer); Spiritual Transformation of Prayer (subthemes of Changed Lives and Sense of Purpose); and Spiritual Phenomena (subthemes of Sense of God's Presence, Use of Complementary and Alternative Practices, and Mysterious Phenomena).

Political Hesychasm? Vladimir Petrunin’s Neo-Byzantine Interpretation of the Social Doctrine of the Russian Orthodox Church

Hesychasm is a Christian Orthodox mystical and ascetic tradition that has its roots in the monastic life of early Byzantium. It denotes a method of prayer and a way of life in monastic community, and it describes the overall process of orienting a person's entire being towards an experience of the Divine.1 Asceticism and experiences of self- transcendence are phenomena we encounter in every religion; suffice to think about Sufi Islam, Zen Buddhism or Yoga. Orthodoxy knows the practice of hesychasm, and what is indeed noteworthy about this is that Orthodoxy preserves a Christian ascetic and mystical tradition throughout history, whereas in Western Christianity forms of spiritual exercises and mysticism come to play a minor role. The twentieth century brings about a revival of interest in hesychasm both in Eastern as well as Western Christian theology, a revival that Sergej Khoruzij describes as "anthropological turn in Christian theology" and connects with the names of Georgij Florovskij, Sergej Bulgakov and John Meyendorff on the part of Orthodoxy, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Yves Congar on the part of Catholicism.2 From this theological perspective, hesychasm stands for a form of religious experience and becomes indicative of an anthropological discourse that preserves a sensibility for experiences of self-transcendence.3 If this is the theological and practical meaning of hesychasm, what is political hesychasm? I first encountered the term in the title of the book Politiceskij isikhazm i ego tradicii v social' noj koncepcii Moskovskogo Patriarkha, published by the Aleteija publishing house in Saint Petersburg in 2009 in the series Library of

The Experiences of Prayer in Christian Patients with Breast Cancer

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning of prayer in Christian patients with breast cancer. Methods: Data collection and analysis were conducted by the Colaizzi analysis of phenomenological method. Data were collected by in-depth interviewing the participants and by further follow-up observations. Sixteen patients participated in this study. Results: The significant statements (188), formulated meanings (42), themes (38), clusters of theme (10), and categories (5) were emerged. The 5 categories were as follows: communication with God, healing and peace, spiritual growth, distrust in prayer, and method of prayer. Conclusion: Further studies need to consider the period of faith, comparison between christian and other religions, and length of diagnosis. A better understanding of the meaning of prayer will lead to a more comprehensive view of the spiritual care for patients with breast cancer, and can lead to guidelines for assessment and intervention to reduce suffering from cancer.

The Orthodox Church: an introduction to its history, doctrine, and spiritual culture

Preface. List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Note on Sources. Introduction: Strange Encounters. 1 The Pilgrimage of the Orthodox through History . A Brief History of the Orthodox from the Apostolic Era to the Middle Ages. Perspectives of History. Earliest Christian Foundations. The Development of Ecclesiastical Centres. The Age of the Fathers. Creeds and Councils. East and West: The Parting of Ways. The Slavic Mission. The Organization of the Orthodox Churches from Medieval to Modern Times. The Extension of the Orthodox Church. Synopsis of the Organization of the Orthodox Churches. The Ancient Patriarchates. The Orthodox Church of Cyprus. The Church of Sinai. The Russian Orthodox Church (Patriarchate of Moscow). The Wider Russian Heritage. The Orthodox Church of Greece. The Patriarchal Church of Bulgaria. The Patriarchal Church of Serbia. The Patriarchal Church of Romania. The Church of Georgia. The Church of Poland. The Church of Albania. The Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia. The Three Autonomous Orthodox Churches. The Various Orthodox Diaspora Communities. The Orthodox Church in America. 2 The Orthodox Sense of Tradition . The Holy Tradition. Sources of Authority in Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy's Reading of the Scriptures. An Ecclesial Reading. The Principle of Consonance. The Principle of Authority. The Principle of Utility. Patristic and Conciliar Authorities. The Symbolical Books. The Pedalion (Holy Canons). Tradition and Revelation. 3 The Doctrine of the Orthodox Church. I: The Glory of the Lord . The Christian God. The Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus. The Immortal Father. The Holy Trinity. 4 The Doctrine of the Orthodox Church. II: The Economy of Salvation . Humanity and its Sufferings. Salvation and the Call to Ascent. The Song of Creation. The Blessed Theotokos: Joy of All Creation. The Dance of the Blessed: The Angels and the Saints. Outside the Gates: Demonology and the Enigma of Evil. The Church: Bride of the Lamb. 5 The Holy Mysteries and Liturgies . Greater and Lesser Mysteries:. The Mystery of Baptism. The Mystery of Chrismation. The Mystical Supper: Communion in the Holy Eucharist. The Eucharistic Liturgy. The Mystery of Metanoia. The Mystery of the Great Anointing. The Mystery of Marriage. The Mysteries of Ordination. The Lesser Blessings of the Church. The Services of Prayer. The Trisagion Prayers. The Daily Offices. Personal Prayers. Traditions of Orthodox Prayer and Spirituality. Methods of Prayer. The Prayer of the Heart. The Jesus Prayer. Hesychasm. Fasting and Feasting. The Holy Icons: Doors to the Kingdom. Sacred Art. The Orthodox Vocabulary of Worship. Icons and Iconoclasm. Icons of the Lord. Icons of the Virgin. Icons of the Saints. 6 'The God-Beloved Emperor': Orthodoxy's Political Imagination . Caesaro-Papist Caricatures. Byzantine Models of Godly Rule. The Ambiguity of Scriptural Paradigms of Power. The Concept of the Priestly King. Dominion as an Apostolic Charism. Patristic Ideas on Symphonia. New Polities in the Aftermath of Byzantium. 7 Orthodoxy and the Contemporary World . The Poor at the Rich Man's Gate. The Grace of Peace and the Curse of War. Freedom in an Unfree World. A New Status for Women. Biological and Other New Ethical Environments. Sexual Ethics and Pastoral Care. Ecumenism and the Reconciliation of the Churches. Religious Pluralism in the Global Village. Evangelism in a New Millennium. Glossary of Orthodox Terminology. Select Bibliography. Index

The Hesychast method of prayer: its anthropological and symbolic significance

Hesychasm is an Eastern Christian method of prayer based on the invocation of the Name of Jesus and on the ‘descent of the noûs (‘intellect’, ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’) into the heart’. This spiritual path, the method of which emerged in its most explicit form between the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries on Mount Athos, is the core of Christianity, since it consists in the inner practice of the fervent and continuous repetition of the holy Name and aims to achieve metánoia (‘change of the noûs’) for the entire human being; and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through an incessant militia super terram comparable to the Muslim jihād al-akbar (‘great holy war’). A meditated analysis of some forms of symbolism which characterize the method in question plus a few comparisons between some central components of Hesychasm, Sufism and other traditional spiritual paths may be an adequate starting-point to understand more deeply the symbolic and anthropological aspects of this eminently ‘paradoxical’ ascetic discipline.

The body in the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola

The return to the original sources of spiritual traditions advocated by the Second Vatican Council has resulted in a radical reappraisal of the aims and methods of Ignatius of Loyola's manual of ascetical training, the Spiritual Exercises. This article summarises and comments on references to the body in the text of the Exercises and, using the tradition of interpretation given by the original Directories, focuses on the last exercises in the book—the three methods of prayer.

Sufi Healing in Martin Lings View: Dzikir and Prayer as Healing Therapy

The problem of spiritual emptiness is not enough to only be cured by medical methods, but also by spiritual treatment, for example by Sufi healing methods. Sufi healing methods are considered relevant to heal patients who experience emotional and mental disorders. This paper focuses on studying Sufi healing with the method of prayer and dzikir in the view of Martin Lings. This paper is analyzed with a qualitative approach using exploratory and analytical methods. The findings obtained are, for Martin Lings the conception of Sufism can be used as a method for spiritual treatment, where the goal is to lead people who have problems with their spiritual emptiness to have kindness and peace of mind. Healing therapy methods that can be used are prayer and dzikir. According to Martin Lings, prayer will give birth to a sense of awareness of the human need for God. Meanwhile, with dzikir gives birth to self-realization of all the shortcomings of oneself and the hope of Allah's forgiveness.

Book Review: Methods of Prayer in the Directory of the Carmelite Reform of Touraine

Book Review: Methods of Prayer in the Directory of the Carmelite Reform of Touraine

Book Review: Methods of Prayer in the Directory of the Carmelite Reform of Touraine

Book Review: Methods of Prayer in the Directory of the Carmelite Reform of Touraine

The Embracing Prayer

An article on ‘The Divine Office as a Method of Prayer’ in The Life of the Spirit, August 1951, by Dom Bede Griffiths, impressed me as having much to say that is of use to all Christians both lay and religious, especially in these times when a slow but deep-seated revolution in spirituality is taking place. Perhaps, however, the most significant sentence of all comes in the opening paragraph. After telling the story of the young priest who studied the psalms so carefully that to him they ceased to be prayers at all, the writer says:‘This is perhaps an extreme example, but it illustrates a fact of great importance, namely, that prayer is not necessarily an exercise of discursive thought, and the study of a certain kind can be an obstacle rather than an assistance to prayer.’

The Divine Office as a Method of Prayer

The Divine Office as a Method of Prayer

The Doctrine of Grace in the Spiritual Exercises

^TOT the least attractive side of the formal study of the Spiritual ^ Exercises as an ascetic document is that it can be made the focus of many of the theoretical problems that arise for the student of ascetical theology. From the days of Melchior Cano down to Henri Bremond the Exercises have been a sign of contradiction to many Catholics, who have levelled against them strictures of the greatest diversity, varying in their severity from heretical' to merely ' 'obsolete/' Conversely, apart from official Papal approval, the Exercises have never failed to raise up champions. Rightly regarded as the corporate heritage of a religious order which has always been jealous of its orthodoxy, the Exercises have found apologists from Doctor Ortiz to Brou and Grandmaison and Cavallera. One could, doubtless as a tour de force, write a history of the spiritual trends of the last four centuries against the backdrop of the Exercises. The chief criticisms directed against them stem from those subtle and vexed problems oscillating about the co-operation of man with God in the life of grace. In this problem practice can be as difficult and dangerous as theory*. St. Ignatius has been called by Catholic writers, not necessarily in a pejorative sense, a pragmatism and a voluntarism A mere cursory reading of the Exercises shows that Ignatius did not minimize personal effort and activity, nor shrink from setting down in the book a number of industriae and methods calculated to deploy to their maximum the energies of the human instrument in its co-operation with God. One can list the election, the examen, the methods of prayer, additions and annotations, formulae such as agendo contra/ ' se exercere, id quod volo, a general attitude of control and prevision, etc.—