Spiritual Perspective Research Articles

An online survey to describe pharmacy student spirituality and spiritual care perspectives

IntroductionLittle is known about student pharmacists' perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care (SC) in pharmacy education and practice. The purpose of this study was to examine student pharmacists' perspectives about spirituality and incorporating SC in pharmacy education and practice. MethodsStudent pharmacists were recruited from two private pharmacy schools in California, one religiously-affiliated and one non-religiously affiliated. A faculty member at each school invited student pharmacists via email or through Zoom (Zoom Video Communications) chat to complete the 37-item online survey through an embedded link. The investigator-designed survey was comprised of 22 items inquiring about spirituality and SC as well as several items assessing demographic and religious characteristics. ResultsParticipants included 470 student pharmacists (87.2% response rate) who were 28.9 ± 5.7 years old on average. Half of the respondents (50.5%) attended the non-religiously affiliated university. Most of the respondents were female (67%), Christian (67.8%), spiritual (79.2%), and religious (75.2%). They “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that: “understanding patients' spiritual beliefs is an important part of pharmacy practice” (83%), “I would pray with my patients as a pharmacist” (54.8%), “it is appropriate for a pharmacist to have spiritual or religious conversations with patients” (52.9%), and “it is appropriate for a pharmacist to pray with and for patients who request it” (66.9%). These beliefs were positively correlated with self-reported religiosity and spirituality. ConclusionsMost students considered themselves spiritual and religious and felt that spirituality and learning about SC were important. The respondents' SC perspectives were associated with their religiosity and spirituality.

Kabbalah, "Dybbuks", and the Religious Posthuman in the Shakespearean Worlds of "Twin Peaks"

In the series Twin Peaks, Mark Frost, David Lynch and others create a mythological framework structured by and filtered through Shakespeare in a postsecular exploration of the posthuman. Twin Peaks exemplifies a cultural postsecular turn in its treatment of the posthuman, taking the religious and spiritual perspectives to new —and often extreme—heights in its use of Kabbalah and other traditions. Twin Peaks involves spiritual dimensions that tap into other planes of existence in which struggles between benign and destructive entities or forces, multiple universes, and extradimensional, nonhuman spirits question the centrality of the human and radically challenge traditional Western notions of being. Twin Peaks draws from Shakespeare’s expansive imagination to explore these dimensions of reality that include nonhuman entities—demons, angels, and other spirits—existing beyond and outside of fabricated, human-centered worlds, with the dybbuk functioning as the embodiment of the postsecular religious posthuman.

In Search of the Authenticity of Contemporary Yogas of Non-Indian Matrix

In this article, we discuss the issue of the authenticity of contemporary yogas of non-Indian matrices, specifically, five Brazilian yogic perspectives. Several new Indian trade schools emerged in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, the so-called modern yoga and its types emerged. These are spiritual movements that, although contain traditional beliefs and practices, deviate from the previous yogic matrices. Modern yogis, in turn, transplant their spiritual schools to geographies far from the Hindu canopy, such as Europe and the USA. Meanwhile, these transplanted modern yogas originate from other yogic denominations, which we here call Contemporary Yogas or Neo-Yogas, are deviations from traditional or Modern Yogas. The yogas that exist in Brazil are examples of contemporary spiritual perspectives produced by singular syncretisms and hybridisms within the Brazilian cultural and religious context. We conclude to conceive the investigated Contemporary Yogas, upheld by non-Indian authorities, as can be understood as legitimate and possible New Spiritual Movements or deviations from modern yoga with new beliefs and practices.

The Biopsychosocial and Spiritual Perspective on the Readiness to Quit Smoking: A Comprehensive Review

Smoking cessation is a major public health goal today as smoking has threatened the safety, health, and lives of millions of people in the global community. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the role of biopsychosocial and spiritual factors towards the readiness to quit smoking and smoking cessation. The results of the study found that smoking behaviour adversely affects not only the biological aspects but also the psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. Apart from that, this study also found that the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects also play an important role in determining the motivation of smokers to quit smoking holistically. Therefore, research and empirical evidence on the biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects are needed to help healthcare teams to identify the barriers and motivating factors to quit smoking.

Pengaruh Size, Return On Asset dan Leverage Terhadap Islamic Social Reporting (Studi Empiris pada Bank Umum Syariah di Indonesia Tahun 2015-2019)

Islamic Social Reporting Is a standard for reporting corporate social performance based on Islamic sharia. Born from reporting standards based on AAOIFI (Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions) an international Islamic financial regulatory institution which was later developed in various countries. In particular, this index is an extension of social performance reporting standards, not only the role of companies in a country's economy but also public expectations about social justice related to the environment, minority and employee rights and the role of companies from a spiritual perspective. There are several factors that influence Islamic Social Reporting, including company size, company profitability and company debt. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that partially, first, variable size has a positive influence on Islamic Social Reporting for Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia. Second, Return on Assets has no effect on Islamic Social Reporting for Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia. Third, Variable Leverage has an influence on Islamic Social Reporting for Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the simultaneous issuance of Size, Return on Assets and Leverage has a positive and significant impact on Islamic Social Reporting for Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia.

Spirituality and Perception towards Spiritual Care among Nursing Students

Aim: A descriptive study was conducted to assess the perception of nursing students towards spiritual care in a selected college of nursing in Ernakulum District, Kerala. Background: In order for nursing education to prepare nurses for holistic patient care, it is critical that educators become more aware of the religious and spiritual dimensions in patient care and be able to provide adequate knowledge and skills for nurses to offer spiritually- based care in an ethical way. Furthermore, spiritual care is an essential component in the nursing context, as nurses have to care for patients who may often turn to the spiritual dimension to cope and heal. These aspects are important issues to be considered in planning what should be taught as part of spiritual care. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the spirituality and perception towards spiritual care among nursing students and to assess the relationship between the same. Methods: A Descriptive analytical study was conducted among 129 BSc Nursing students studying in a Nursing College attached to a Medical College Hospital of South India. Convenience sampling technique was adopted for the study. Spirituality assessment scale and Nursing Spiritual Care Perspective Scale (NSCPS) were used to collect the data. Pilot study was conducted and the study was found to be feasible. Permission from the authorities was obtained and data collection was done. The data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics and R software used for the analysis. Results: The study revealed that there was a statistically significant mild positive correlation between spirituality and nurse’s perception towards spiritual care (r=0.23, p and lt;0.01). Conclusion: Spirituality is a significant concept for the discipline of nursing with profound consequences for caring patients. Spirituality is an important aspect of holistic care. This study identified that there is a significant mild positive correlation between spirituality and spiritual care. The study found that nurses were very accepting of the need for spiritual care as part of their nursing role but that nursing education had not paid adequate attention to integrating this dimension into the nursing curriculum.

The Reception of Pistis Sophia and Gnosticism

Abstract This article surveys the reception of the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia in esoteric milieus in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. The first part of the article contains an overview of the text and scholarship on it. Then follows a study of the reception of Pistis Sophia in a broader array of esoteric circles. It becomes clear that the text was hailed as an example of ancient and great spiritual wisdom, although seldom discussed in detail theologically. Next, this is compared to the academic reception at the same time where it was, as previous scholars have made clear, discarded due to what was understood as a discrepancy with “Gnostic” characteristics. This article shows that Pistis Sophia was not discarded in esoteric circles but rather read in light of already established esoteric trajectories, for example Blavatsky’s, Krumm-Heller’s, or Papus’ particular spiritual evolutionary perspectives. Lastly, it is argued that the understanding of Gnosticisms that both these receptions reflect is still very much active today: academics and esoteric groups are guided by similar trajectories vis-à-vis Gnosticism, seeing it as a representative of a “universal religious essence” associated with progressive attitudes (for example regarding sex and gender), which allows/forces them to renegotiate the ancient sources themselves.

Stone Garden Tourist Value

The high level of change in people's social life demands an increase in people's knowledge of their social behaviour, which has an impact on the growth of people's intelligence to adapt to changes in the social environment, including customers. Customers have become the target of attention for business organizations including Stone Garden, through increasing customer value. The study purpose is to explain the visitor value from a functional, social, emotional and spiritual perspective during their visit to Stone Garden, followed by the meaning of visitor values from a sociological perspective. The research method used is a quantitative descriptive method with a sample measure of 100 people, using the percentage formula followed by determining the range to determine the interval for assessing respondents' perceptions. The results showed that the functional, social, emotional and spiritual values were included in the excellent category. The high value of visitors becomes a reference in determining the sociological value. Stone Garden has become an important part of people's lives because it can provide benefits and be used as a reference for travelling for the community. Stone Garden has become a superior tourism model because it shows something different, namely rock-based natural tourism as the advantage vehicle. This advantage is a motivation for organizations that can foster confidence in the development of tourist destinations in the future as well as for the community so as to direct other people to visit Stone Garden.

El vínculo formativo de Centros de Gestión y Desarrollo Deportivo en universidades

The sociogenesis of humanity throughout all civilization processes, has reported in the historical development of physical activity as an important platform for human development and a source that generates countless benefits for society, relying on collaborative knowledge from the biological, psychological, socioanthropological, socio-cultural, socioeconomic, educational, epistemological and spiritual perspective, positioning physical activity as a knowledge based on an integral vision. This condition of integrality of physical activity turns it into a world of possibilities to favor any type of population in favor of benefits for its development and even more to the student population that conforms the different faculties of the University of Guayaquil, whose lifestyles, ways of feeding, logics of insertion to society and cultural habits, many of them inheritances of legacies foreign to their idiosyncrasy, have generated direct incidences in their personal development.

IMPACT OF SOCIAL MICRO FINANCE ON THE WELFARE OF THE CITY OF SURABAYA THROUGH THE CIBEST MODEL

Social microfinance is the development of Microfinance Institutions whose main task is to provide capital and assistance to micro business actors through a revolving capital system originating from ZIS. Contracts that can be used in social microfinance are productive zakat and qardul hasan contracts. Several zakat management organizations have implemented micro-social finance programs, one of the zakat management organizations is LAZNAS Yatim Mandiri with the Bisa LAZNAS Yatim Mandiri program. The purpose of this study was to measure the success of the Can LASNAS Yatim Mandiri program by measuring it from a material and spiritual perspective. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative with CIBEST analysis tool. The result of the research is that there are differences in welfare before receiving productive zakat maal and after receiving productive zakat maal where the level of welfare decreases from four families to 3 families.

Parental Perspective in Paediatric Palliative Care: A Systematic Review of Literature Using the PRISMA Method.

Research in Parental Perspectives are pivotal in gaining understanding of parents’ experiences, issues, concerns and attitude in pediatric palliative care which affects their decision making. However only a limited number of such studies have included the first-person perspective of Parents. The aim of this article is to understand the contribution of previous research on parental perspectives in pediatric palliative care through a systematic review of literature. Nine articles that met the inclusion criteria were accessed and seven key themes emerged; Psychological perspective, parental concerns, parental needs, parental attitude, spiritual perspective, cultural perspective and financial perspective. This review highlights requirement of more research into parental perspective if possible, covering all key aspects along with additional research in cultural perspective and development of validated tools, checklists and psychometric questionnaires for the assessment of these perspectives in various domains: spiritual, financial, psychological, cultural and social.

Aristotle's philosophy on happiness and its meaning to educate Vietnamese today

Introduction. This article focuses on clarifying Aristotle's views on happiness. The objective is to describe the development of the idea of happiness from ancient times to the present to explain the role of happiness in social life. Every person needs happiness, and every society wants to achieve it. Aristotle considered happiness to be a human epistemological process. Happiness plays a vital role in human life's purpose. Happiness is also a right that every person should have in their life. The purpose is to find out the content of happiness and the method to achieve happiness for people, especially Vietnamese people, in the process of global integration. They are educating people toward a happy life. Materials and methods. Based on the study of Aristotle's Nicomaque Ethics to clarify the happiness category. The work played a pivotal role in Aristotle's determination of happiness. The article uses materialist dialectic to explain arguments about happiness expressed by Aristotle in ten separate books and based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. In addition, the article uses analytical and synthetic methods to clarify the point of happiness in the history of human philosophical thought from ancient, medieval, and modern times thereby drawing the content of Aristotle's view of happiness. Results and discussions. Aristotle was the first to address happiness and research on happiness. He affirmed that happiness is a need, a good nature of human beings. Happiness is considered under moral value as a criterion to evaluate a person's virtue, so it has moral significance. Happiness is human action in life towards beauty. Happiness is also a cognitive ability in humans; through training, training, and education, people can achieve the value of happiness. Therefore, it is necessary to educate people to achieve happiness; however, the happiness of Aristotle is from a spiritual perspective. Meanwhile, material life plays a vital role in shaping the concept of human happiness. Therefore, Aristotle has not mentioned the decisive role of material life. At the same time, happiness is the factor that individuals do well, society is also good, but the part of social happiness places on the individual's view of happiness. Practical significance. Clarifying Aristotle's perspective on happiness, the article points out the amount of socio-economic development orientation from a macro perspective in building a happy Vietnam. The nation's happiness is the development of both material and spiritual factors. On that basis, personal happiness is the cause of national construction and renovation. Since then, for Vietnam to be happy, it is necessary to improve the people's role as the master of the country, to take the people as the root. It is essential to educate Vietnamese people comprehensively so they realize that their happiness is closely related to the people's happiness in the cause of building the nation's happiness. The third is educating people about the spirit of building happiness in the government associated with the country's socio-economic development because the happiness of the Vietnamese people is to ensure material and spiritual benefits for the Vietnamese people.

Preventing Sexual Harassment at Workplaces – the Legal and the Spiritual Perspective

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the spiritual trajectories of promoting harassment-free workspaces. The paper develops a bilateral model of individual and organizational spirituality about both the intentionality and outcomes of spiritual modes of thinking, decision-making, and performance. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper follows the case analysis method. It draws upon the experiences of an NGO working as an external change agent for instituting the spirit of the PoSH Act, 2013 in organizations. The authors have shortlisted 10 case studies from more than 100 sexual harassment cases handled by the NGO for addressing the larger issues of spirituality in organizations. The paper is interspersed with anecdotal and ethnographical references to continually juxtapose the letter and spirit of the legislation preventing harassment in India. Findings: As evangelists of harassment-free workspaces, the authors find that realization of this goal will not be possible with only passive, mechanistic compliance with the letter of law or the rules of the organization laid down in this regard. Research Limitations: The major limitation of this paper is that it only accounts the secondary information, the empirical investigation is missing. Managerial Implications: The aim of harassment-free workspaces as a building block of a harassment-free world is a collective journey of individuals, Internal Complaint Committees, organizations, and society as a whole. That organization where the spirit is given more importance than just the letter, and the closer an organization is to the principle of equality, as expected of us by the universe, the closer it is on its spiritual path to creating harassment- free workspaces. Originality/Value: The paper draws on the first-hand experience of the NGO and is an original contribution to the further development of research in this area.

Notas sobre os saberes do povo Tentehar: “tudo para nós é espaço sagrado”

this paper discusses indigenous spirituality from the observation of the Tentehar people, better known as the Guajajara, and keeps a dialogue with other relevant interpreters of the original peoples’ cosmovision. The central issue is to inquire about the existence of a multifaceted perspective of spirituality intertwined with contexts of historical and everyday struggles. For this, testimonies available on websites and in specialized literature are used, as well as historical and empirical research on the Tentehar from Maranhão state. The female initiation ritual is observed and it is understood that in the past the preservation of this ritual was related to the conflict in Alto Alegre city. It is concluded that indigenous spirituality is intertwined with the existential, cultural, social and political dimensions of the original peoples.

Creators of the Musical Spirit, or the Spiritual Perspective of Music

Creators of the Musical Spirit, or the Spiritual Perspective of Music

Spiritual perspectives of Thai psychiatrists on mental health

Spiritual perspectives of Thai psychiatrists on mental health

STEAM Education for Transformative Mathematics Learning

In this paper, I have tried to explore hegemonic western cultural worldview which heavily influences the traditional disciplinary egocentric curriculum practices. Western hegemonic culture's overriding inspirations in mathematics education have established western modern worldviews, culture, and traditions as universal standards. Through the so-called standard norms and values, the powerful countries (mainly western and European countries) have seized others' cultures, values, and perspectives and thus developed the culture of silence. Conventional disciplinary egocentrism indoctrinates hegemonic culture that makes the learners unaware of their ways of being, knowing, and doing. It severely affects less powerful (politically, economically and technologically) countries' education systems by pervading instrumental, decontextualized and bureaucratic thought and beliefs. It engulfs humanitarian, biocultural, political, and spiritual perspectives of mathematics education. It signifies that we urgently need to revitalize mathematics education by incorporating newly emerging perspectives; one such perspective might be STEAM education. I would like to discuss the different perspectives of STEAM education and explore how STEAM education contributes to creating new synergetic learning spaces in mathematics education by enhancing transformative learning practices. The primary concern of STEAM education is to acknowledge local and contextual ways of beings, knowing, and doing. The recognition of the local cosmological knowledge, perspectives, and values support authenticate the learning process. The learning authentication widens the possibilities of active engagement of learners in the learning and decision-making process by deploying creative, critical, and imaginative thinking and skills. A deep engagement in a multi/inter/transdisciplinary learning process embraces the learners into bio-cultural differences; the lifelines of the human being support developing awareness, self-consciousness, and spiritual sensibility. STEAM perspectives always focus on enriching transformative agendas to create more authentic, inclusive, and empowering educational practices. It also empowers the learners to act as change agents for enhancing socially, ecologically, and bio-culturally just society that underpins to transform mathematics education.

INTERNALIZATION OF ISLAMIC VALUES IN THE 21st CENTURY CONSTRUCTION ORNAMENTS

This article aims to determine the concepts as well as some Islamic construction ornaments that contain Islamic values. Art and spirituality will not be complete if they do not touch on architecture, so Islamic architecture has an important meaning from the perspective of spirituality. In the 21st century, there are architectural issues in how buildings respond to the environment. Therefore, buildings including ornaments must be environmentally friendly and apply the concept of simplicity design and apply appropriate technology. The research used is library research with descriptive methods. The result of this research is that the art of decoration is one of the most important character building elements in Islamic architecture. Types of typical Middle Eastern ornaments include calligraphy, geometric ornaments, and arabesk.

Integration of Negativity, Powerlessness and the Role of the Mediopassive: Resilience Factors and Mechanisms in the Perspective of Religion and Spirituality

Abstract Defining psychological resilience while taking into account all of its different facets has proven to be a difficult task, requiring an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. This article will present some of the theologically relevant current findings of the new research group on “Resilience in Religion and Spirituality” (DFG-FOR 2686) working in cooperation between theology, philosophy, psychosomatic medicine, palliative care, and spiritual care (chapter 1). Even though our project builds on factors and mechanisms of resilience already intensively discussed (chapter 2), we will add some further aspects on resilience as a multidimensional and dynamic process of adaption (chapter 3) and on the integration of negative experiences, of endurance, of the formation of powerlessness and of the mediopassive (chapter 4). This will allow for some prospective considerations on understanding challenges and problems of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (chapter 5).

The Diverse Spirit: Spiritual Care Perspectives and the Implications for Older Adults in Various Settings

Religiosity and spirituality are commonly supported and viewed as essential elements of well-being in old and very old age, particularly at end of life. These essential elements often include the exploration of the meaning in life, inner peace, belonging, contentment, and near-end-of-life-completion. The positive outcomes of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices have been well established. However, these experiences and related positive outcomes may not always include a diverse array of older adults. The spiritual care of older adults is becoming more culturally diverse and includes differing perspectives on what constitutes spiritual care, both in approach and practice. This symposium will explore the current state of spiritual care for older adults through a lens of cultural diversity and inter-religious/spiritual perspectives. A focus on the current practices of spiritual care for older adults and future implications will also be considered. Recommendations pertaining to future gerontological inquiry in the importance of spiritual care, as well as diverse approaches within gerontological practice will be highlighted and discussed.