Religious Experience Research Articles

BUDAYA TABLIGH DI MEDIA SOSIAL: NILAI SPIRITUAL TERHADAP TABLIGH USTADZ HANAN ATTAKI DI MEDIA INSTAGRAM PADA GENERASI Z DI INDONESIA

This research examines the impact of Ustadz Hanan Attaki's tablig on Instagram on the spirituality of Generation Z. This research uses a phenomenological culture approach to analyze Instagram as a new social media. Through content analysis of Instagram posts and an online survey involving 100 Generation Z respondents, this research explores how digital tabligh messages influence personal relationships with oneself, others, nature, and God. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method through a phenomenological cultur approach to understand how Generation Z interprets and internalizes the spiritual values ​​conveyed through digital tabligh. The findings show that social media, especially Instagram, plays a significant role in shaping the spiritual experiences and religious identities of young people in the digital era. This research contributes to new phenomenon culture regarding social media as part of religious communication and its impact on the spirituality of Generation Z in the digital era.

Revisiting Epistemological and Psychological Composition of Religious Experience

The impact of Carl Jung and William James on the early 20th-century Indian subcontinental semi-philosophical and semi-psychological tradition is examined in this article. To analyse and assess these traditions, a qualitative research design was used. Relevant documents, academic works, and philosophical literature were examined to provide context-rich understanding. Iqbal made a concerted effort to use intellectual and psychological frameworks to legitimize religious experience, notably referencing the concepts of William James. But significant conflations resulted from this integration, especially between prophetic and non-prophetic experiences, which diminished the uniqueness of Islamic Religious thought in the end. This attitude has open mindedly and happily accepted the fictitious versions of religion but this acceptance is disastrous and lethal than the explicit denial. To ensure the preservation of Islamic thought, it is crucial to approach Western philosophical ideas with caution and avoid conflating religious experiences. A re-evaluation of Iqbal's intellectual legacy is necessary to understand religious experiences from a non-Western perspective.

ESCHATOLOGICAL MOTIFS IN THE SHORT NOVEL “DEFINITELY MAYBE” BY A. AND B. STRUGATSKY

The article presents an analysis of eschatological motifs in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s short novel “Definitely Maybe” (“One Billion Years to the End of the World”) (1976), in particular, it describes the development of the motifs of the Last Judgment, the end of the world and the fate of the universe in the original idea of the story as reflected in the author’s sketches and in the final text. The motif of the Last Judgment underwent a strong change in the text of the story and was realized in the form of self-judgment of the scientists, who are the heroes of the story. They condemn themselves to a future in which their scientific potential will not be fully realized. The motif of the end of the world is stated in the title and the main conflict of the story, which entails the heroes’ confrontation with the force that prevents scientific discoveries that could lead to the end of the world. Most scientists try to make sense of what is happening by appealing to folklore, religious experience, or ideas about extraterrestrial civilization. The fate of the universe is closely connected with the phenomenon of the Homeostatic Universe, which influences the lives of the characters in the story not directly, but implicitly, through everyday phenomena, which by the story’s finale add up to an insurmountable obstacle for most scientists. The eschatological motifs of the Strugatsky brothers were formed under th

Mental Disorder and Religious Experience: The Need for a Humble, Pragmatic Pluralism

Mental Disorder and Religious Experience: The Need for a Humble, Pragmatic Pluralism

Psychopathology AND Religious Experience? Toward a Both–And View

Psychopathology AND Religious Experience? Toward a Both–And View

Deconstructing the Distinction Between Religious Experience and Psychopathology

Deconstructing the Distinction Between Religious Experience and Psychopathology

Introduction to the Special Theme Religious Experience and Psychopathology

Introduction to the Special Theme Religious Experience and Psychopathology

Is an AI-Generated Icon an Icon? A Case Study in Artificial Intelligence and Christian Spirituality

Abstract: This article examines the potential for AI-generated icons from the viewpoints of the iconographer, the worshiper, and the liturgical community. The ability of AI programs to produce convincing images reopens questions previously thought put to rest in the eighth and ninth centuries during the iconoclastic controversy. These questions go beyond icons themselves, questioning our materiality, the nature of spiritual experience, and the centrality of the incarnation for a Christian faith. While AI-generation may produce images virtually indistinguishable from those made by human hands, the processes involved in their generation and dissemination risk spiritually deskilling iconographers and distancing those who acquire them from the community of faith.

The Impact of Pastoral Care on Students’ Religious and Psychological Well-Being in a Christian Tradition-Based Residential Hall in Hong Kong

This study investigates the impact of pastoral care on the religious and psychological well-being of students residing in St. John’s College, a Christian tradition-based residential hall in Hong Kong. The research employs a mixed-methods approach and comprises two complementary studies: a quantitative analysis (Study 1) involving 98 participants and a qualitative investigation (Study 2) with 26 participants. Study 1 utilised the Religious Commitment Inventory-10 (RCI-10) and the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) to measure religious commitment and psychological well-being, respectively. Initial findings revealed significant correlations suggesting that higher levels of religious commitment engender improved psychological well-being. Study 2 explored these relationships further through semi-structured interviews, providing deeper insights into how pastoral care influences students’ religious practices and mental health. The qualitative data underscored the nuanced role of pastoral activities in fostering a supportive community atmosphere, enhancing both personal and communal religious experiences.

Queering Spirituality

This article explores the lived practices and beliefs of transgender and gender-diverse people, highlighting their fluid understandings of religion and spirituality. Two transgender and six gender-diverse people took part in in-depth qualitative interviews. Each participant, while coming from different experiences of religion and spirituality, emphasised the importance of their individualised beliefs and practices. The participants found categories of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ to be constrictive, preferring to highlight their internal connection to both their self and the world. The participants also found that their practices, consciously or unconsciously, were gender affirming. This research highlights the joy that can be found in queer understandings by focusing on the positive, rather than the negative, experiences of spirituality and religion.

MILLIY АN’АNАLАRNING INSОN MА’NАVIYАTI YUKSАLISHIGА TА’SIRI

This article examines the influence of national traditions on the growth and development of human spirituality. It examines how cultural practices, beliefs, and values shape individual and collective spiritual experiences, and sheds light on the relationship between national traditions and the rise of human spirituality, and the relationship between culture and spirituality. 'aimed at a deeper understanding of interdependence.

Josiah Royce, William James, and the Social Renewal of the “Sick Soul”: Exploring the Communal Dimension of Religious Experience

In The Sources of Religious Insight, Josiah Royce assesses William James’ pragmatic evaluation of exalted, private religious experience, advanced in The Varieties of Religious Experience as inadequate to encompass the full range of religious experience. Among other contributions, Royce adds social and communal experience to James’ individualistic appraisal. Rather than tacking on to the familiar contemporary critical conversation about the Jamesian restriction to private experience, I argue that James and Royce are helpfully brought together through an understanding of religious conversion: James’ foundational predicament of the “sick soul” returned to health through religious conversion gains depth and coherence through the attention Royce gives to overcoming alienation through communal participation. In our time of dislocation and self-preoccupation, drawing together these two seminal models of religious experience provides an instructive account of the individual’s transformation by way of communal renewal.

Cowper’s Pauses

Abstract This essay is about the status and significance of pauses in the poetry of William Cowper. The pause, it argues, is not only a formal feature of that poetry, manifest in caesurae and line-endings, but a human experience with which Cowper displays a richly vexed fascination. Consideration of Cowper’s prose writings reveals his sense that the proper management of pauses is a crucial and distinguishing characteristic of blank verse as against rhyming couplets. Attending to Cowper’s pauses, it is argued, can help us better to understand the distinctive mode of attention that his verse demands of its readers, especially in the long poem The Task (1785). Cowper’s complicated and ambivalent sense of the value of pausing is related, on the one hand, to a Protestant tradition of temporal improvement, and, on the other, to eighteenth-century debates about the nature of blank verse. Cowper’s sense of religious experience, the essay suggests, cannot properly be separated from the way in which he chose to write poetry. At their ambiguous best, Cowper’s pauses place the reader in a position akin to that in which the poet found himself as a Christian believer, doubtfully poised between election and reprobation, between salvation and damnation, and uncertain of what the future holds.

After the Sermon and Beyond the Pulpit: Transformative, Power-Sensitive Homiletics of Polyphony and Hope

This article considers the connection between preaching and power in search of a more inclusive understanding of preaching and more expansive modes of sermonic expression. As feminist and postcolonial theologians repeatedly emphasize, the pulpit, in both a concrete and symbolic sense, remains oriented toward white male preachers. German-language education also continues to be dominated by this perspective. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories of power and postcolonial theology, the concluding section of this paper introduces five dimensions of homiletical practice aimed at making preaching more sensitive to power dynamics: sharing interpretive power, starting from religious experience and lived theology; taking the body seriously (embodiment); daring polyphony; and imagining and acting together on the kingdom of God.

Ibn Barrajan's Sufistic Tafsir of Surah al-Baqarah and Ali Imran

This study aims to know the Sufistic interpretation in Tafsir Tanbih and the characteristics of Tafsir Tanbih, which is focused on Surah al-Baqarah and Surah Ali Imran. Tafsir Tanbih is an eclectic collection/source of various materials collected over the years from various sources, Tafsir Tanbih is a Sufi interpretation of Ibn Barrajan trying to understand the meaning of every divine word with the teachings of Sufism, it can be seen from some interpretations of Surah al-Baqarah lafadz nazala 'alaikal litaaba bil haqqi, interpreted that this verse opens the door to a person's realization in himself through His asma in the lafad al-hayyu and al-Qayyum, someone who ma'rifat is who knows with a strong, perfect substance, and His sublime attributes, and His good names. The characteristics of Tafsir Tanbih are the experience of Mysticism and Spirituality in Tafsir Tanbih, using an Integrative approach in Tafsir Tanbih, there are Moral ideas in Tafsir Tanbih, there is a relationship with Ma'rifah (Divine Knowledge) in Tafsir Tanbih, understanding Mutashabihat Verses in Tafsir Tanbih. And many other characteristics.

Kei te moe te tinana, kei te oho te wairua – As the body sleeps, the spirit awakens: exploring the spiritual experiences of contemporary Māori associated with sleep

ABSTRACT For Aotearoa New Zealand Māori, sleep and wairua (spirit) are closely intertwined. During sleep the wairua awakens and journeys across multiple dimensions of time and space to attain the tools and knowledge the individual needs to navigate waking life. While this function of sleep is understood within Mātauranga Māori (bodies of knowledge regarding everything within the universe) (Hikuroa 2017), it has yet to be explored within psychological sleep research. This qualitative study contributes to addressing this gap by exploring nine Māori participants’ personal experiences of wairua during sleep. A whakapapa thematic analysis identified two interconnected layers. The first layer contributed to a spiritual explanatory framework for sleep, developed to encompass participants’ beliefs regarding wairua, which were utilised to interpret their sleep experiences. The second layer describes these interpretations, comprised of three central themes: (1) Tohu/Guidance; (2) Ako/Space and time for learning; and (3) Tau/Attaining a state of stability, peace, and purpose. These findings suggest that the spiritual experience of sleep supported participants in navigating their waking lives safely, purposefully, and meaningfully, contributing to Indigenous and Māori scholarship regarding the spiritual and cultural purpose of sleep, and with important implications for clinical, social, and academic approaches to understanding and supporting sleep.

Strategic Dynamics of India-Myanmar Relations: An Assessment

Relationships between India and Myanmar are based on common historical, ethnic, cultural, and religious experiences. The relationship between Myanmar and India has been cordial over time. The two nations' proximity has also promoted and maintained friendly relations and allowed for more interpersonal interaction. However, in the existing situation, relations seem to be hampered due to changes in geopolitical and geostrategic aspects. The Government of India (GOI) decided to end the Free Regime Movement (FMR) between India and Myanmar on February 08, 2024, to preserve the demographic makeup of the Northeastern states and to safeguard national security. Since New Delhi decided to fence the 1,643 km long border between India and Myanmar, the basic cause behind this decision is to prevent external aggression that may prove detrimental to the regional stability of the region. Myanmar is important to India both strategically and economically given its location. The nation is essential to India's ambitions to use its Act East Policy (AEP) to expand its influence in Southeast Asia, particularly among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). However, since the military took over in February 2021, political unrest has been present in Myanmar. The Arakan Army, the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar National Democratic Army launched "Operation 1027" on October 27, 2023, against the military Junta, which further intensified the unrest and hampered India's AEP's main goals.

Correlation Between Spirituality and The Level of Psychological Well-Being in the Elderly at Banyuwangi Nursing Home

Background: Elderly in nursing homes face various problems such as a decline in body condition and health due to the aging process which has an impact on psychological well- being. Problems in psychological well-being can be addressed through spirituality, which functions as a coping mechanism. Purpose: This study aims to analyze the relationship between spirituality and the level of psychological well-being in elderly at nursing home in Banyuwangi. Methods: This study is a quantitative study, correlational study design with a cross sectional approach. The sample in this study consisted of 42 respondents selected using a total sampling according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. This study used the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) questionnaire and the Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) questionnaire. Results: Descriptive analysis showed that the majority of elderly at nursing home in Banyuwangi had a high level of spirituality (50.0%) and a high level of psychological well-being (38.1%). Based on the Kendall's Tau b correlation test, the p-value was 0.001, indicating there is relationship between spirituality and the level of psychological well-being in the elderly at nursing home in Banyuwangi. The results of the r-value was +0.487, show there is a positive correlation which means the higher the level of spirituality in the elderly, the higher the level of psychological well-being. Conclussion: spirituality has an important role in improving the psychological well-being of the elderly, so efforts can be made to improve the psychological well-being in the elderly by increasing spirituality in the elderly.

Book Review: Religious Experiences and the Knowledge of God: The Evidential Force of Divine Encounters by Netland, Harold A.

Book Review: <i>Religious Experiences and the Knowledge of God: The Evidential Force of Divine Encounters</i> by Netland, Harold A.

Exploring the spiritual well-being experiences of transnational religious festival attendees: A grounded theory approach

This study aimed to examine the spiritual well-being outcomes that encompass eudemonic well-being elements within transnational religious festivals. Employing a constructivist grounded theory method, the study focused on two UNESCO inscribed transnational religious festivals attended by an Ethiopian diaspora community. Through this research, six dimensions of spirituality were identified: attachment to God, spiritual reward, spiritual growth, self-transcendence, religious knowledge, and sense of meaning. Each of these dimensions contributed to various domains of well-being, such as personal growth, environmental mastery, engagement, and positive relationships. The study also discovered that the experience of spirituality is influenced by individuals' roles and levels of engagement within the festivals. Key activities such as prayer, attending mass services, baptism, participating in religious programs, singing, and volunteering, are instrumental in yielding spiritual well-being outcomes. The findings offer valuable insights for event organizers and destination managers seeking effective strategies for marketing and managing religious-themed migrant festivals.