State Of Spirituality Research Articles

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While Korea is thriving externally through Korean Wave, internally it is a provisional suicide group because of its high suicide rate and low birth rate. In this thesis, these problems were examined from the viewpoint of Korean philosophy focusing on Toegye’s theory of emotions. Korea has the longest dynasty in the world, and is the only place where the theory of emotions of Sadanchiljeong was discussed for 300 years. This theory of emotions might be able to be established because emotions had been valued since the ancient times. Yet, here, the emotions are not the ones categorized into rationality and feelings by the Western thought. Toegye’s theory of emotions goes beyond this dualism, and is accompanied by spirituality(Heoyreongseong). It’s also distinguished from that of Hoeam(Zhu Xi) in China. While Hoeam placed spirituality in the area of pre-intentional state(wei-fa), Toegye put spirituality between Sadan and Chiljeong. The pre-international state of spirituality placed by Hoewam became agnosticism, but Toegye discussed spirituality that both a fool and a saint could understand. The present Korea has become a group suicide society internally, and created Korean Wave externally by expressing the accumulated and compressed emotions because the tradition of valuing emotions has been broken in the process of colonization, the war, and condensed modernization. What Korean philosophy can contribute to the world history is to recover the emotions humans originally have.

Study of spirituality and well-being over-the-top services through the lens of stimulus-organism-response framework: a moderated-mediation analysis

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to empirically investigate the role of e-service quality factors in predicting e-satisfaction. The study context was spirituality and well-being over-the-top services. The e-service quality factors consisted of perceived functional completeness, perceived performance, perceived quality of interface and interaction, perceived quality of content and information and perceived quality of customer support. The study goal was to ascertain over-the-top services customers’ behavioral intention toward upgrading to premium subscription and the spread of electronic word of mouth.Design/methodology/approachThis study was based upon the integrated stimulus-organism-response framework where e-service quality represented the stimulus, e-satisfaction the organism, behavioral intention and electronic word of mouth as the response. The study used a moderated-mediation approach with e-satisfaction as the mediator and the price value of a premium subscription as the moderator. To empirically test the model, the authors collected data from 312 spirituality and well-being over-the-top services users in India. Partial least squares-structured equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data.FindingsThe findings of the study supported the association between e-service quality factors and e-satisfaction while using spirituality and well-being over-the-top service. The results furthermore indicated that satisfied spirituality and well-being over-the-top customers were willing to upgrade to the premium subscription and spread favorable electronic word of mouth. The moderated-mediation study results revealed that the price value of premium subscriptions moderated the relationship between e-service quality and e-satisfaction but did not moderate the relationship between e-satisfaction and behavioral intention, and e-satisfaction and electronic word of mouth.Research limitations/implicationsThis study offered a comprehensive stimulus-organism-response theoretical model by using the five e-service quality measurement factors as “stimuli” for motivating the internal state of spirituality and well-being over-the-top subscribers. This was toward sustained usage in over-the-top services subsequent to the end of the freemium period. Furthermore, in this study, both e-service quality theory and user satisfaction theory were integrated into the stimulus-organism-response model. This helped to better comprehend the impact of e-service quality factors in driving e-satisfaction among spirituality and well-being over-the-top service users.Practical implicationsThis study revealed the significance of differentiating premium over-the-top subscriptions based on price value. To ensure a high level of e-satisfaction from a premium subscription, a greater emphasis on the e-service quality dimensions was required. This study provided insights to managers regarding the role of favorable electronic word of mouth in fostering effective customer acquisition.Originality/valueThis was one of the first studies which concurrently integrated perceived value of the premium subscription and e-satisfaction with customers’ behavioral intention and electronic word of mouth through the theoretical lens of stimulus-organism-response.

The Scientific Society and the Spiritual Society in the Novel ‘Iraiyuthir Kaadu’

People's lives are intended to various changes in today's society. Novel literature is required in particular to record those changes because novel and society are intertwined. Indira Soundarrajan's ‘Irayuthir Kaadu’ is a testament to the social history novel which is a mix of historical and contemporary events. The research area of this article is the scientific society and the spiritual society of the above-mentioned novel. The Sociological Approach has been adopted for this research to analyze the dependency of people on technological gadgets and the state of spirituality in today’s society.

The Spiritual Distress of Adolescents "Men Sex Men"(MSM) Infected with HIV in Bandung

The prevalence of cases of HIV infection in the group of adolescents “Men Sex Men (MSM) in Indonesia has continued to increase from 2015 to 2019. The problem of decreasing physical health, feeling depressed, social stigma, stress and inconsistent behavior with religious values will create prolonged distress that hinders the quality of life. The purpose of this study was to identify spiritual distress in adolescents infected with HIV with MSM. This study was conducted with a cross-sectional approach to 84 young people living with HIV/AIDS. The sample selection technique used snowball sampling with a Spiritual questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted by using frequency distribution and Lambda test processed using a computer system. The results showed that 56% were in a state of spirituality with no disturbance, 38.1% were in moderate spiritual distress, and 6% were severe spiritual distress. The SSI score mean of respondents was 16.3 ± SD 4.9. There was a correlation between the length of diagnosis and the incidence of spiritual distress with a p-value of 0.000 and a value of r = 0.459. Spiritual distress tended to occur a lot in the early days of being diagnosed with HIV. There was no correlation between age and the incidence of spiritual distress (p = 0.097). This study showed that spiritual care support for adolescents MSM would help overcome existential problems related to HIV.

The State of Spirituality in India and Insights for Marketing

There is an emerging paradigm shift in management over the last two decades towards spirituality. Before going for studies in marketing and spirituality in the Indian context, it is essential to first understand spirituality in the Indian context because India is a diverse country. However, there is lack of a pan – India study to understand the current state of spirituality. This research paper filled this research gap by studying spirituality in India's 36 states and union territories. The results showed differences across states and union territories, small states and big states, islands and mainland, and across different regions. Marketing professionals can use the findings of the study while designing the marketing strategy and marketing mix to reach out to the consumers in a better way. One limitation of this work is that it could have undertaken a pilot project or a case study to relate the findings on spirituality with the spirituality paradigm in the Indian context.

The Implicating Gaze in Bronzino’s Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus and the Intellectual Culture of the Accademia Fiorentina

The iconography of Bronzino’s sexually explicit Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus has long challenged scholars, especially since scientific analysis revealed below the portrait’s surface a fully conceived underpainting depicting a different moment from the story of Orpheus. First, I suggest that this change was associated with Cosimo’s military victory at the battle of Montemurlo, where the duke’s army finally extirpated his political opposition. Second, I contend that Cosimo’s nudity should be interpreted within the milieu of the Accademia Fiorentina, where the painting’s eroticism suggested to court literati that the duke had achieved the highest state of Platonic spirituality, known as “erotic furor.” Finally, I argue that although Bronzino’s Cosimo as Orpheus seemingly aggrandizes the duke, it is a polysemous image that former Republican, anti-ducal literati could likewise interpret as a scathing critique of the young ruler and an embodiment of the hope that political demise was close at hand.

Spirituality as a sociocultural determinant of health in the context of medical curriculum: A call for action.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the state of spirituality in the general medicine curricula in Iran. Methods: Reference books for general medicine were reviewed and data were analyzed according to the qualitative content analysis method. Results: After reviewing references, it was found that only 35 paragraphs of the educational reference pages dealt with this subject. Related topics to spirituality had 2 major themes: (a) spirituality and care (assessment, treatment, palliative care, and bereavement); (b) spirituality and professionalism (considering culture and medical ethics). Conclusion: This study showed that despite the importance of the subject and much evidence on spirituality and medicine, medical references have limitations. The authors suggested some strategies to develop a specific course and integrate all educational references with the objectives of the general medical education course in Iran.

HARMONIOUS UNITY OF SPIRITUALITY, CULTURE,EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING

The article is devoted to the investigation of the problem of harmonious unity of spirituality, culture, education, and upbringing of a personality, which are the most important categories of pedagogical science and determine the tendencies and nature of personality development. The authors of the article provide an essential characteristic of these concepts. It is emphasized that in present day conditions, the state of spirituality of society, its decline "as a social phenomenon, as a critical state for the fate of mankind", is of particular concern. Therefore, the problems of the culture and spirituality of the personality are now the subject of attention of all the humanities. The authors of the article note that a growing person is at the center of pedagogical research. It is emphasized that nowadays it is necessary to take into account its energy and information essence, and peculiarities of its soul as an organic totality of all physical, energetic, conscious and unconscious psychophysiological and spiritual forces of a person. The need to consider the concepts of spirituality, culture, education, and upbringing in the context of formation of the value and sense sphere of personality is emphasized. In the article, the author's definition of this concept is presented and the psychological determinants of the formation of the value and sense sphere of a personality are identified. They include culture as a metasystem; spirituality as a vital determinant; ideals as meaningful factors; and modern information systems, spaces and practices. In the article, the concept of cultural personality development, worked out by D. Paul Shafer, is characterized. The shortcomings of modern education are described and the tasks of the new century education are defined. It is emphasized that education should perform an important culture-creative and human-creative function that promotes the cultivation of personality spirituality. It is emphasized that upbringing of a spiritually mature personality is ensured in the educational process by the readiness to co-operate in the context of cultural pluralism.

Состояние духовности москвичей различной конфессиональной направленности

Состояние духовности москвичей различной конфессиональной направленности

Creative Spirituality from the Islamic Perspective: Practices Amongst Students of a Product Development Competition

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of creative spirituality on product development among students who participated in the Islamic Innovation Student Competition (i-REKA) 2017 at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). The study employed the quantitative approach through a survey instrument design. Data were collected using questionnaires, and the constructs used were developed from prior research and previously-tested for reliability. A total of 147 questionnaires were analysed from the respondents in this study. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the characteristics of the respondents, including frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation, while the multivariate technique which was employed was regression. The findings revealed that significant relationships exist in the state of creative spirituality among students of the products development competition. These findings may provide a distinctive perspective on the concept of creative spirituality and product development, and its necessity in the Islamic educational system for the contemporary modern era.

THE SPIRITUAL HEALTH STATE OF THE ILL AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE MEDICAL CONCLUSIONS ON SOMATIC HEALTH AT THE HEALTH RESORT

According to the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO) of health, spirituality is one of the constituents of the person’s health. At this moment there are very few knowledge concerning the interrelation of spiritual and somatic health of the person. The objective – to estimate the spiritual health state of people, who suffer from chronic diseases, at the health resort stage of rehabilitation and to establish its connection to medical characteristics of somatic health. Methods. One hundred and fourty-eight ill, who have been suffering from chronic diseases and have been admitted for the treatment to the climatic resort. Biological, social and general medical characteristics, as well as the spiritual health state of the examined have been studied with the help of a special questionnaire. Results. All the examined at the health resort ill have been suffering from chronic diseases for a long period of time. The main diseases have been: cerebral atherosclerosis – 17.6% of cases, hypertensive disease – 17.6%, angina – 16.9%, diffuse cardiosclerosis – 15.5%, bronchial asthma – 14.9%, chronic non-obstructive bronchitis – 6.1%, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – 4.7%, vegetovascular dystonia – 2.0%, bronchiectatic disease – 1.4%, chronic pyelonephritis – 1.4%, other diseases – 2.1% of cases. Duration of the main disease on the average has been 9.92±8.38 (Ме: 7 (4; 15)) years, and the relapse rate during the last year – 1.43±1.75 (Ме: 1 (0; 2)) times. Complications of the diseases have been absent in 50.0% of the ill, indolent – 31.1%, moderately expressed – 14.2% and prominently expressed – in 4.7% of the ill. 61.5% of the examined ill have had the unfavorable state (low and average levels) of spiritual health. The state of spirituality of chronically ill people to a certain degree has depended on the state of their somatic health, which have been indicated by the presence of the connection (associations) between the answers to a series of questions in the questionnaire, which has described spiritual health, and medical conclusions and characteristics. The answers to 13 questions of the given questionnaire have been 29 times connected to the 14 studied medical characteristics of the ill. The answers to the questions of the questionnaire have more often been associated to the presence of nervous system diseases (6 dependencies), relapse rate of the main disease (5 dependencies), quantity of the affected organs (3 dependencies), presence of oncologic diseases (3 dependencies), severity of patient's condition (3 dependencies), duration of the main disease (2 dependencies) and presence of metabolic disorders (2 dependencies) in the ill. Conclusions. 61.5% of the ill who have been suffering from chronic diseases, and have been admitted to the health resort treatment have the unfavorable state (low and average levels) of spiritual health. The state of spirituality of chronically ill people to a certain degree depends on the state of their somatic health. Giving the health resort treatment requires the use of the programs of the formation and maintenance of the person’s spiritual health.

Tragedy of homo faber and hopes of homo humanus

The article discusses the role of Homo Faber’s human labor in the development of civilization, the development of a human himself as a thinking being (Homo sapiens). The fact of the deep crisis of Homo Faber, fixed in fiction and philosophical studies, is stated. The attempts of representatives of the “school of human relations” to intensify the motivation and creative activity of Homo Faber are analyzed. The factors of modern production that contribute to the destruction of the spirituality of the individual and the degradation of Homo Faber are revealed. The possibilities of his spiritual development, concluded in the model of Homo Humanus, giving hope to Homo Faber for a better destiny, are considered. Possible ways of development of Homo Faber are explored: the use of personality selfdevelopment resources, human adaptation to civilized tectonic shifts, as well as the variant of managing human evolution. The strategy of evolutionary change includes: the goal that is to form Homo Spiritus (spiritual man), as the highest form of Homo Humanus. It determines the choice of means of managerial influence - using a powerful arsenal of education, science and modern technology, allowing significant expansion of space exploration, the microworld, consciousness and, having received innovative knowledge about the world, to cause cathartic processes in the human soul, to form the desire for spiritual ascent. The process of influencing on human consciousness is planned to be carried out taking into account the main stages of spiritual self-development definition. Thus, at the stage of a person formation – to bring up spiritual qualities (curiosity, cordiality and diligence), at the stage of personality formation - spiritual (openness to the world, intelligence and creativity). At the stage of self-assertion in life, to achieve the integration of the processes of increasing the plasticity of a personality, as an ability to manifest a state of spirituality in various spheres of being, and spiritual concentration, as the depth of the world perception. At the stage of self-realization of the personality, to support the desire for transcendence and the fullness of self-expression. Using the principles of the concept of continuous development and relying on the arsenal of the possibilities of the lifelong concept of lifelong education affirmed in society, to counteract the spiritual degradation of the individual. Aiming to intensify aspirations in spiritual self development, the author suggests studying the academic discipline “Fundamentals of Human Evolution”, the content of which consists of interrelated sections, each of which is intended to ensure the emergence of a certain modification of the spiritual image of the personality: Homo wondering (person surprising, revealed to the world), Intelligent Populous (person of intelligent), organically combining Homo Cogitate (a person capable of deep reflective critical thinking) and Homo Responsible (a person in charge), Homo Inspired (human inspired to create), creating together the image of a human of spiritual noospheric future – Homo Spiritus.

Lektury Andrzeja Pleśniewicza (Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Valery Larbaud). Wobec nowoczesności

The article is a proposal to read three essays – “Paul Valéry”, “Rainer Maria Rilke” and “Valery Larbaud” by Andrzej Pleśniewicz, a largely forgotten literary critic of the inter-war period. Reading selected works of the mentioned poets of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries by Andrzej Pleśniewicz appears to be a recognition of established in them diagnosis of the state of modern spirituality – the spiritual condition of modernity.

Defining the Sacred

How do we define what is sacred architecture? People of all ages are turning away from organized religion, and looking for a more genuine, personal experience of the spiritual. In considering sacred architecture, a distinction is whether architecture itself is sacred or that architecture is an instrument that calls forth the sacred. Distinctions should be drawn between situational versus substantive sacred space. A divine presence is believed to reside in substantive sacred space. In situational, anyplace can be sacred depending on the presence, location, and actions of human beings, often acting in community.Edward Anders Sovik was one of the most influential architects in the design of modern churches in the US. Active from the mid-20th-century through the 1970s, Sovik designed mostly Protestant churches and wrote extensively about church design and its liturgical underpinnings. Sovik believed that early Christians perceived themselves as a community of faith unattached to any place. His skepticism about the sacredness of buildings and objects sits squarely within Protestant theology. His religious architecture offers a good model for today, as the definition of sacred architecture is changing. Sovik’s emphasis on the secular and the sacred is prescient regarding the current state of religion and spirituality, and became the basis of a recent graduate design studio at Catholic University of America.

Просвещение и онтология. Русское доклассическое Просвещение: Киреевский

This work continues a series of articles The Enlightenment and ontology. It investigates the ontological component of the Russian Preclassic Enlightenment. The author claims that the Russian Enlightenment arises in the 30s-40s of XIX century. As the founders of the Russian Preclassic Enlightenment he considers Kireyevsky, Chaadayev and Herzen. This article considers the philosophy of Kireyevsky. Based on the concept of the nature and features of the Enlightenment, developed in the preceding articles, the author argues that Kireyevsky is a figure of the Enlightenment. The basic concept in the philosophy of Kireyevsky is the concept of education. It is a process of transformation of reality under the influence of education and the result of this process – a certain state of spirituality. The Russian Orthodox education formed the basis of Russian civilization and the very nature of the Russian people. The influence of Western education damaged the foundations of civilization and the nature of the people. To correct damage is possible by means of a new philosophy which should be based on the synthesis of Christian Orthodox and Western education. The aim of this project is to implement the utopia of holistic man. Kireyevsky also emphasizes the inextricable and essential link between the Russian Education and literature. This allows to consider Kireyevsky as the representative of the Enlightenment. The author also shows that Kireyevsky constructs two ontological models. The first model could be called ethnic and civilizational. Civilization is a phenomenon, able to change its own ontological status. The second model can be called prophetic. As a carrier of the sacred word, a writer appears as a prophet and lawgiver. His work provides the highest ontological status for society. The first model is new. The second model descends from the previous stages of development of the Russian Enlightenment. At the same time Kireyevsky tries to overshadow the traditional ontological model where the main role is played by the sacred tsar, even though the traditional model was basic then in Russia.

Book Review: St. Peter's B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints

St. Peter's B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints. Edited by Mary Ann B. Miller. Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 2014. xxii + 288 pp. $15.95 (paper).Can the lives of the saints, and the mythologies that have grown up around them, teach us even today how to live-how to love, to bear suffering, to transcend the mundane, to help and heal others, and ultimately to die? In a great variety of ways, the poems in St. Peter's B-list explore this question. 'The lives of saints are writes James Martin, sj in the afterword, and the many perspectives and styles represented in the anthology certainly support this notion, as saintly narratives are subjectively experienced and interpreted by the poets. All of the poems seem to acknowledge a great divide between the stories about saints imparted to us in childhood and the realities of living in the world as we know it, although the stories provide a meta-narrative of self-sacrificial compassion. While the saints represent an ideal toward which to strive, the poets find that miracles and transcendence remain unavailable to them, and they are left to weather the vicissitudes of life without extraordinary divine intervention.The tonal and ideological range of the poems in this anthology is wide, encompassing reverence and irreverence, devotion and apostasy, curiosity and apathy, humor and sincerity. While the saints of this anthology are limited to those of the Roman Catholic tradition, most of the poems included will likely be accessible and pertinent to non-Catholics-and often even to the non-religious. To this end, a helpful appendix summarizing the lives of each saint mentioned in the poems is included. Admittedly, a number of mediocre poems are included, but these are punctuated by striking poems that stand out like fresh light bulbs in a string of sputtering ones. Many of the mediocre poems are simply prosaic and dull, although a few are more spectacularly so-sparking and crackling to their demise, at least putting on some kind of linguistic fireworks before fizzling out. more successful poems, such as Susan Blackwell Ramseys The Story I Like Best about Saint Teresa-effectively recognize humor and humanity in the stories of the saints, demonstrating that whatever sainthood might mean, it does not mean a state of sterile and perfect spirituality:The story I like best about Saint Teresa[...]is not the one of Teresa stuck in mudaxel-deep on her way to try to haulsome convent full of fashionable widowstoward reform, drenched, the pretty spitfireshouting at the clouds If this is the wayyou treat your friends, no wonder you have so few! …

A Case for Integrating Spirituality and Religion in Counselor Training

This thesis is a comprehensive review of the current empirical and theoretical literature on the status of religion and spirituality in counselor education. Specifically, literature related to the role of religion and spirituality in counseling outcomes is reviewed, in addition to both counselor educators and counseling students’ views on how religion and spirituality are infused in counselor training. The current state of religion and spirituality in counselor education is explored. Finally, the author provides recommendations for the implementation of religion and spirituality in regards to research, training, and practice.

The attribution of religion as an objective consequence of its functional limitations

Modern Ukrainian society has a number of unresolved problems that can impede its further cultural and spiritual progress. You can find out about this from scientific or religious literature as well as from the media. In particular, these problems are connected with the present state of spirituality of our people, with the lack of a solid foundation in our worldview for building a worthy future and awareness of the proper moral and ethical norms of social co-existence. “In Ukraine, as O. Sagan rightly points out, there is a need for a kind of moral growth of the society ... The general moral condition of post-Soviet Ukrainian society remains complicated, and nowadays, negative tendencies are exacerbated. As long as the latter progress, the people may be subject to manipulation by both political and religious figures. ”

Semangat Feminisme Dalam Pengalaman Spiritual Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

Sufism (tasawwuf) states strongly the equity of human beings: men and women. Existinggender differences do not hinder the spiritual achievement of men and women because spirituality connotes universal meaning free from any particular gender identity. Spirituality concerns eternal life and values, whereas gender identity is a profane affairs and consituting a wordly life. In this light, although men and women assume different gender role in their worldly life, both of them have same potency to achieve the highest spiritual experience and gain ascetic happiness. Sufis doctrine celebrates oneness without any individuality. The history of sufism witnessed the effifacy of women to the top highest state of spirituality. Rabi'ah Al-Adawiyah was the phenomenal example of one who initiated the concept of mahabbatullah in its holistic meaning. Through her concept of hubb (love) Rabi'ah reached the highest spiritual maqam (state) in sufis ranks, higher than other sufis could reach at her time. The achievement of Rabi'ah to the ultimate stage of spirituality through her notion of mahabbah is a clear and firrn proof that spirituality never requires particular gender identity; both women and men have equal potency and opportunity to attain or experience such ultimate encounter with spirituality.

Technical Spirituality at Work

The authors assess the current state of workplace spirituality from the philosophical perspective of Jacques Ellul and show how the workplace spirituality movement has not escaped the infiltration and pervasiveness of technique. First, they describe Ellul's notion of technique. They then demonstrate how the workplace spirituality movement presently displays the hallmarks of technique in its quest for results and facts, in its use of experts, and in the broadening and hence dissolution of the notion of spirituality. The authors highlight several scholars who have raised concerns and critiques of the movement in its technical form. They suggest some possibilities for moving toward an authentic spirituality at work followed by some implications for undertaking scholarly research on workplace spirituality that explicitly recognizes technical dominance in spirituality. It is incumbent on those of us involved in workplace spirituality to resist its domination and find ways of fostering authenticity in spirituality at work.