Spiritual Empowerment Research Articles

When dominant models become dominating: A narrative identity approach to female leadership in Pentecostal organizations

ABSTRACT This article contributes to research on Pentecostal female leadership by approaching the topic from organizational leadership perspective. The study contends that an increased emphasis on the Pentecostal pneumatological narrative of spiritual empowerment of all people may help women build a robust and authentic leadership identity when it simultaneously influences the public narratives that shape leader identities in Pentecostal organizations. First, the paper shows that cultural assumptions about leaders implicitly impact how women are perceived in leadership roles. Secondly, it employs literature on organizational identity work to shed light on the complex role of female leaders in Pentecostal organizations from a narrative perspective. Finally, it brings these strands of organizational research into a critical and constructive dialogue with the Pentecostal pneumatological narrative to suggest a way forward that might bolster female leadership in Pentecostal settings.

Encouraging Factors For Women's Empowerment In Community Care And Social Work

Women are often seen as inferior to males in the community. Their occupations are limited to domestic duties such as caring for the family and making sure that everyday necessities are met. Despite their undervalued values, women continue to play a critical role in guaranteeing the welfare of the community, the well-being of the family, and the healthy development of the children. Nowadays, many women are joining the workforce, taking on leadership positions and taking part in a variety of community activities. This demonstrates the importance of women as contributors to society and the need to develop women's potential. Therefore, the study's goal is to investigate factors facilitating women's spiritual empowerment for treating female corpses. The study is focused on women empowerment at Desa Punggul by adopting qualitative method. The data are collected through participant direct observation and facilitating team's documentation, which are collected during community service program. The collected data are analyzed by using thematic analysis method. The study finds that women spiritual empowerment at Desa Punggul are enabled by two main factors. The first factor is the contribution of women organization (PKK). The women's organization promotes women's development in three areas: cognition (improving women's skills and knowledge, learning, or participating in decision-making, collaborating, and organizing community events), affection (boosting women's self-efficacy, self-worth, and strengthening women's mentality), and social (expanding social roles, establishing wider social relationships, and gaining support from their peers). The second component is the encouragement of a welcoming, cooperative, tolerant, engaging, and inclusive environment or community.

The Power of Authorities, Interpretations, and Songs: The Discourse of Authenticity in the Latvian Folklore Revival

This is a collaborative study on how, and by whom, the discourse of folklore authenticity was developed in Latvia in the 1970s–1980s and how it affected and still affects the Latvian folklore revival and post-revival practices. Influential positions and vital discussions have arisen in search of meaningful (authentic) folklore practices, such as honouring an unattainable ideal and practicing political resistance, creative ancientness, and spiritual empowerment.

A feminism of the soul? Postfeminism, postsecular feminism and contemporary feminine spiritualities

Increasingly popular ‘feminine spiritualities’ urge women to foster personal transformation and social change through spiritual empowerment and healing of ‘the feminine’. However, in spite of feminist undertones, feminism is rarely explicitly evoked, and is often even rejected. Gender scholars have debated over the ambivalent feminism of contemporary spiritualities, which are readily seen as closer to postfeminist rather than feminist ideals, or framed as a form of old-fashioned cultural feminism. While some recent analyses do explore the feminist potential of feminine spiritualities in more positive terms, the debates often lack practitioner perspectives on feminism and deeper considerations of the practitioners’ own self-definitions. Based on ethnographic interview material across Finnish and Anglo-American contexts, this article explores how adherents of feminine spirituality imagine feminism, and whether they consider their spirituality to be feminist or not and why. I argue that while practitioners hold varying, often ambiguous positions in relation to feminism, the narratives iterate shared themes that render feminism and feminine spirituality as incompatible: an emphasis on femininity over feminism, and a focus on spirituality instead of politics. Furthermore, practitioners critique mainstream feminism for being too secular, while often simultaneously agreeing with feminist criticisms of both cultural feminist and postfeminist ideals. I suggest that failing to take the voices of spiritual women into account prevents constructive dialogue and solidarity among secular and spiritual feminists as well as non-feminist women, and offers little room for emerging postsecular feminist identities.

The Vedic Era: Indian Women And Spirituality

this monograph, an attempt has been made to ascertain the spiritual state and spirituality of women in the Vedic period. The socio-religious status of women, their contribution and involvement in philosophical-intellectual debates, along with a comparison of Gender spiritual rights have also been revisited. Since the concept of spirituality has changed and grown over time, various definitions coexist today. Saints or enlightened ones have shown higher degrees of spiritual growth than the common man. The word "spirituality" has been used here to refer to a religious reforming process that comprises the examination of some universal concepts, such as compassion, love, generosity, afterlife, enlightenment, and truth. The Vedic civilization is an intriguing exception to the norm concerning the general situation of women becoming unsatisfactory as the years progressed. The role of women is increasingly gratifying the further back we look, including the spiritual realm. As a period of great social and political stability, the early Vedic era is regarded as the "golden age" of women. In contrast, the later Vedic era marked a sharp and apparent decline in the social standing of women. This work emphasizes the spiritual empowerment of women and highlights the crucial role they had in forming religious and cultural traditions during this time through a review of Vedic texts, academic interpretations, and archaeological data. The approach used in this work is strictly descriptive, and the data needed was gathered from primary as well as secondary sources with reference to Vedic women in antiquity. KEYWORDS- Vedic Era, Religion, Society, and Women’s Spirituality.

Explaining the Propositions of the Sound Heart Model as Spiritual Health Theory: Research Methodology

Background: Holistic, community-oriented health services require attention to spiritual health at all levels of prevention, in the spectrum of health and disease, throughout life. Spiritual health services are professional theory-based practice. The purpose of the study is to report the research methods of explaining the propositions of the Sound Heart Model as a Spiritual Health Theory. Methods: The theory was designed by using qualitatively derived theory based on the Concept-Integration method in six stages. An in-depth philosophical review of two decades of research indicated the need for spiritual empowerment. Concept analysis clarifies the concepts of therapeutic relationships and therapeutic content as spiritual communication, knowledge enhancement, skill training, and spiritual motivation. To validate the findings, in addition to Morse et al. suggestions, the findings were reviewed in four specialized national sessions "Chair of Behavioral Sciences", "Narrative Sciences Chair", "Pre-Summit Sessions" and "Summit Session" of "Chairs of Theorizing, Criticism and Scientific Debate" in the “Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution”. Conclusion: Spiritual self-care of parents, teachers and clergy is a priority. Secure attachment to the prophets and following their lifestyle is the basis of spiritual self-care. Spiritual self-care of parents, teachers and clergy creates spiritual mentoring competence. The correct religious behavior of spiritual mentors provides the possibility of model-oriented education. Spiritual communication based on compassion and empathy can create secure attachment, trust and security. Spiritual mentors should provide spiritual training without coercion and violence with "scaffolding". Mentors can facilitate the stages of faith growth and correct cognitive errors by increasing spiritual knowledge. Explaining the spiritual reason for life's sufferings increases resilience against suffering. By teaching "relationship development skills" with nature, self, people and God along with thinking about "the truth of religion", they can create a positive image of God and secure attachment to God. So that people can take refuge in God as a safe haven and feel safe.

Pemberdayaan Siswa Dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Tentang Pertolongan Pertama Luka Di Pesantren Ittiba As Sunnah Kampung Holtekamp Kota Jayapura

Students are an active age group, curious and trying many new things, most of the time students spend on school activities, so students have a high risk of experiencing injury in the school environment.Some pesantren are not only schools, but also provide dormitories so that the pesantren students live and can spend 24 hours doing activities in the pesantren area. Islamic boarding schools have characteristics in spiritual empowerment and also in empowering life skills (life skills). Therefore, it is important to empower Islamic boarding school students in increasing knowledge about wound first aid. The purpose of this dedication is:improve the knowledge and skills of Islamic boarding school students in providing first aid and wound care.The methods used in this service are lectures and demonstrations using slideshow media and brochures. Partners in this service are students of the Ittiba As Sunnah Islamic Boarding School, Holtekamp Village, Jayapura City. The result of this service is that participants understand the material presented so thatthe level of students' knowledge about first aid and wound care increased to 97% of students who had a good level of knowledge, 3% of students had sufficient knowledge, and no students had less knowledge.

Caring Spiritually: A Study on Spiritual Care Training in a Hospice Setting.

Spiritual care can improve patients' physical and emotional well-being, but patients at the end of life often experience their spiritual needs are not being sufficiently met by the health care professionals. This is caused by barriers among health care professionals that stem from inadequate education on spiritual care and lack of self-reflection on spiritual topics. By participating in spiritual care training, health care professionals seem to gain the knowledge, confidence, and skills they need to care spiritually for patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect and experiences of a training course in spiritual care for 30 nurses working at a Danish hospice. This was done by means of both a before-and-after questionnaire and focus group interviews. The course focused primarily on the nurses and their personal and collegial reflections on spiritual care, whereas increased spiritual care for patients seemed to be a secondary outcome of the course. There was a significant statistical correlation between the nurses' values and spirituality, and their confidence in being able to exercise spiritual care for patients. The training course facilitated spiritual empowerment, collegial spiritual care, and spiritual language among the nurses, which led to increased spiritual care for patients.

Reclaiming Yoga as a Practice of Female Empowerment

Abstract: Womb yoga is a women’s yoga practice developed in the UK from the observation that male bodies and experiences are privileged in mainstream yoga. Based on modern postural yoga, womb yoga integrates the philosophy and mythology of śakta tantra in reference to scholarly texts and reinterprets tantric traditions in line with Anglo-American Goddess spirituality. Through body practice, chanting, visualization, and ritual, female cyclic experiences and the different stages of women’s lives are approached as gateways to the divine and as opportunities for spiritual empowerment. In addition, by offering a seasonal understanding of the menstrual cycle and establishing energetic resonances between natural elements and the body, womb yoga fosters experiences of cosmic connection and communion. The study is based on ethnographic research, combining participant observation and in-depth interviews. It details the practice of womb yoga and the experiences it engenders among participants, and discusses its feminist potential.

Empowerment of Mustahiq BAZNAS Kab. Sukabumi through the Micro-Enterprise Awakening Program (BUMI) Based on the Village Mosque of Zakat Civilization (DPZ)

BAZNAS Sukabumi Regency has a particular program in Micro Enterprise (BUMI) based on the Village of Zakat Civilization mosque (DPZ). It is carried out following the local community's socio-cultural factors by empowering spiritually and materially at the same time according to its motto of the Koran (spiritual) or spiritual empowerment and ngejo (rupiah) or material empowerment. This study aims to determine the level of success of the mustahiq empowerment program through the BUMI DPZ program in BAZNAS, Sukabumi Regency. The research is survey research by conducting interviews and using a questionnaire, with descriptive analysis methods and qualitative approaches, to collect facts in the field from interviews in the form of questionnaires to respondents. The results show that the BUMI DPZ BAZNAS program's success rate in Sukabumi Regency is still low due to various obstacles, including the assisted residents' mentality (mustahiq) still consumptive in orientation. The limited number of assistants need to deal with other institutions at the same team that offers assistance programs in interest-bearing loans. Even though assistants play a significant role in changing the mindset of society as well as agents of change to create empowered community conditions, whereas, in terms of community development, it can be said to be successful with community activeness, the assistants follow routine recitation held by a companion and have routinely issued alms. Some have even become guardians for orphans in their environment.

Contribution of Compassion International to the Livelihood of Smallholder Farmers in Bushenyi District

The study was to assess the contributions of Compassion International to the livelihood of smallholder farmers in the Bushenyi district of western Uganda. The specific objectives were to; (i) assess the household livelihood changes resulting from smallholder participation in Compassion International programs; (ii) assess the level of beneficiary participation in Compassion programs, (iii) analyse the contribution of Compassion International to food production and security, and (iv) examine the challenges being faced by Compassion International that hinder their operations in rural settings of Uganda. The study adopted a descriptive survey design that applied both quantitative and qualitative approaches for data collection. Data was captured from 206 respondents using both a questionnaire and an interview schedule. Data was analysed using SPSS version 16 to generate both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study found that smallholder participation in Compassion International programs has resulted in livelihood changes such as; enhanced child education, household economic and spiritual empowerment, increased access to agricultural inputs, income-generating projects, and enhanced household capacities. The study also found that beneficiaries participated in compassion programs by attending organisation outreaches, seminars, and annual meetings, mobilising local resources towards the cause, participating in project activities, paying annual membership fees, and giving feedback on project activities and operations. Compassion International has contributed towards household food production and security of the household across the district by setting up agricultural support projects, mobilising farmers, providing agro-inputs, and facilitating extension service delivery. The study further established that; poor funding, corruption and misuse of funds, competition and poor power relations with the local government are the key challenges hindering Compassion International’s operations in the Bushenyi district. The study concluded that though smallholder farmer participation in compassion programs has resulted in improved livelihood changes for member households, there remains a huge socio-economic gap in the Bushenyi district. The organisations’ operations are still hampered by a number of challenges. The NGO needs to tackle poverty reduction dynamically, strategically, and comprehensively. This is because poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that needs a multidimensional approach. There is a need to look at other categories of needy people in society such as the elderly, widows, and disabled persons, rather than placing emphasis on a category.

Patient Trying to Tell Something Else: Severe Stress During COVID-19 Pandemic

Identifying mental health illness poses a dilemma, particularly the distinction between heart disease and severe stress. Without early intervention, it can be escalating into psychiatric disorder and suicide. A 44-year-old man sought cardiologist consultation for the "heart disease" symptoms. As a medical laboratory technician in charge, his commitments and extensive responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic add to his hypertension and dyslipidaemia comorbidities. Despite non-significant investigations related to heart disease, he returned with the same intense unresolved symptoms. His Depression Anxiety Stress Scales 21-item assessment revealed severe stress. Stress management counselling includes detecting the underlying stress impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural changes, and stress coping skills was done in 4 sessions. The 1st one-hour session was to instil positive thinking and behavioural changes of the severe underlying stress and to counsel the stress coping skills. Stress coping skill includes relaxation techniques (Deep Breathing Technique and Progressive Relaxation Method) and spiritual empowerment (Islamic Integrated Meditation). The next three counselling sessions of thirty minutes duration to heighten the stress management counselling (positive thinking, stress coping skills, spiritual empowerment) as well as to review his wellbeing and physical diseases control were done at two-week interval. At twelve-week follow-up, reassessment of stress level showed significant improvement with no similar symptoms. This case highlights the clinical complexity and diagnostic challenges in detecting mental health illness. Diagnostic acronym PROMPT with the 'PT' refers to 'Patient Trying to Tell Something Else' demonstrated; without a high index of suspicion, mental health ailment may be overlooked. This case also underlined the integration of behavioural changes, stress coping skills, and spiritual empowerment in stress management counselling.

Experiences of African American Mothers Following the Death of Their Infants

ObjectiveTo explore the lived experiences of African American mothers after the death of their infants. DesignQualitative, interpretive phenomenologic study. SettingNortheast Louisiana. ParticipantsSeven self-identified African American women whose infants died during the first year of life; the women’s ages ranged from 18 to 38 years at the time of the infant’s death. MethodsHeidegger’s interpretive phenomenologic approach guided the data collection and analysis. The women were interviewed using in-depth questioning to determine the meaning of the infant loss experience and their subsequent efforts to cope. ResultsSix themes represented the experiences of loss for the mothers: Shattered Dreams, Questioning God, Dissociation, Paralyzing Fear, Left in the Dark, and Uniqueness of Grieving. Three themes affected the women’s efforts to cope after their loss: Authentic Presence, Spiritual Empowerment, and Disconnectedness. ConclusionAfrican American women who experienced infant death described intense feelings of loss, guilt, and isolation. These negative emotions can potentially affect their physical and psychological health. These findings may help health care providers develop culturally sensitive understanding of African American mothers’ experiences of loss and equip providers to provide holistic assessment, appropriate support, and treatment for these vulnerable women.

Sufisme Pedesaan dan Nalar Beragama Inklusif: Ekspresi Keagamaan Majelis Dzikir Birrul Walidain di Karanganyar Jawa Tengah

This research focuses on how the community in Karangwuni Village Karangmojo Tasikmadu, Karanganyar Regency expresses religious movements as an effort to build a moderate society. Majelis Dzikir and Shalawat Birrul Walidain in the village are very strategic public spaces to instill an inclusive Islamic character. Village communities are synonymous with harmonious behavior and mutual help, and from a diversity perspective, they tend to be open or moderate. This study uses the sociology of religion approach with qualitative methods. This study found that makes taklim in the village became a medium for spiritual empowerment as well as a space for culture. Besides that, the Birrul Walidain taklim assembly is also a public space that displays moderate Islam in the countryside. This study offers the need for a moderate socio-religious movement carried out massively throughout the villages in the archipelago to build a tolerant Islam by prioritizing the principles of tawassuth, tawazun, and tasamuh, to create a peaceful and harmonious society. The existence of an inclusive taklim assembly can be a social capital in building a moderate society.

The Effect of Implementing Spiritual Empowerment Program on the Spiritual Mentoring Competence of Soft Warfare Officers

The Effect of Implementing Spiritual Empowerment Program on the Spiritual Mentoring Competence of Soft Warfare Officers

Religiosity and human capital formation in the overlapping generation model in Indonesia

This research aims to determine the extent of the part of spiritual empowerment and the construction of human capital in the overlapping generation model in Indonesia. The study constructs a model by mathematical approach, which ensures the equilibrium of the entire market; use data of the Indonesian region in the 1983-2019 period and the analyzed by regression. Government spending in the fiscal and monetary sector effectively increases the Gross Domestic Product; the influence of labor positively affects the use of capital stock, where the current capital stock is influenced by the stock capital of the previous year. The aspect of government spending has a positive effect on capital stock.

The Role of Islamic Microfinance Approach for Community Development

The fields of zakat-based microfinance and community development are not often placed under the same theoretical lens that both aim to empower disadvantaged people. This study investigates the experiences of borrowers in the implementation of zakat-based microfinance and analyses the different driving factors they applied in their choice of the zakat-based microfinance of Da’arut Tauhid Peduli in Bandung, Indonesia. It applies a community development framework, based on the five characteristics, to explore this Islamic microfinance approach as an effective community development program, which has a religious dimension. Primary data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with the borrowers along with participation observation at a weekly majelis meeting, and these were triangulated with information cross-checked with management staff of the institution. The findings demonstrate three out of five characteristics of zakat-based microfinance approach as an effective community development program. They include characteristics in constantly maintaining power relation between borrowers and the institution, increasing capability and ability of borrowers to be more independent and empowered, and long-term duration of the program and sustainability. The findings showed that spiritual factors appear to have been an additional driving force on top of economic and non-economic factors for most borrowers choosing this particular program. With respect to zakat-based microfinance as a community development approach, practitioners need to develop longer-term strategic planning that takes into account the principles and core components of both zakat and community development; this would facilitate both the economical and spiritual empowerment of recipients to widen the scope of change, as well as expand benefits from their families to the wider community

Pemberdayaan Mustahiq BAZNAS Kabupaten Sukabumi Melalui Program Bangkit Usaha Mikro Berbasis Masjid Desa Peradaban Zakat (BUMI DPZ)

BAZNAS Sukabumi Regency has a superior program named Micro Enterprise/ Bangkit Usaha Mikro (BUMI) that based on Zakat Civilization’s Village/ Desa Peradaban Zakat (DPZ) of mosque which is carried out following local socio-cultural community factors, by spiritual and material empowerment at the same time in accordance with its motto ngaji (ruhani) or spiritual empowerment and ngejo (rupiah) or material empowerment. This study aims to determine the success level of the mustahiq empowerment program through the BUMI DPZ program in BAZNAS, Sukabumi Regency. The research that will be used is a survey research by conducting interviews and using a questionnaire, with descriptive analysis methods and qualitative approaches, in the form of collecting facts in the field from interviews in the form of questionnaires to respondents. The results show that the success level of the BUMI DPZ BAZNAS program in Sukabumi Regency in terms of rupiah development is still low due to various obstacles, including the mentality of the assisted residents (mustahiq) who are still in consumptive orientation is still quite difficult to changing to be a productive one and already familiar with the usury system coupled with the limited number of assistants who at the same time have to deal with other institutions that offer assistance programs with interest-bearing loans, even though assistants play a major role in changing the people's mindset as well as agents of change to create empowered community conditions, while in terms of ruhiyah development it can be said to be successful with community assistants activeness to follow routine recitation held by a companion and have routinely issued

The Effect of Spiritual Empowerment with Multimedia Educational Method on the Spiritual Health of the Cancerous Children’s Family

Minoo Asadzandi1*, Safora shahrabi farahany2, Hassan Abolghasemy3, Mohsen Saberi4 and Abass Ebadi5 Author Affiliations 1Research fellow Medicine, Quran and Hadith Research Center, Anesthesiology Department, Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences. Member of Founding Board, Spiritual Health Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Hereditary Diseases of Blood Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Quran and Hadith Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, IR Iran 5Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Lifestyle institute, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Received: January 08, 2021 | Published: January 18, 2021 Corresponding author: Minoo Asadzandi, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Nursing Faculty. Sheikh Baha’i Street southern, Molla Sadra Ave. Vanak Square. Tehran, Iran DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.33.005367

Spirituality Yoga and Women Empowerment Process

Women empowerment is a process and contextual in situations. There are two approach of women empowerment. Agency approach focuses only on agency and structure approach on structure; however, both approach are incomplete. My argument is agency and structure both approach is inseparable. Structure and agency come together in structuration. This article is based on the Brahma Kumaris World spiritual university (BKWSU) as structure and Brahama Kumaris (BK, Daughter of Barhma) as agency in women empowerment process. BKWSU is a women led largest organization in the world. The objective of the study is to explore the process of empowerment and contribution of spiritual organization in the area of women empowerment. The qualitative descriptive approach with intensive literature review method the study has been conducted in Rajyog centers of Kathmandu. In conclusion, BKs have strong belief that self-confidence is the most powerful means of empowerment. They do not have the sense of male or female but they think that they all are soul. It ca be taken as spiritual empowerment or inner empowerment which is prerequisite for further empowerment.