Selfation

Selfation

Author: Johan Roeland

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 908555019X

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This book addresses the merits of this influential understanding of religious changes, qualitative in-depth study of evangelicalism among Dutch youngsters, one of the most popular renditions of Christianity in the Netherlands.


Self-Action Leadership: the Key to Personal & Professional Freedom

Self-Action Leadership: the Key to Personal & Professional Freedom

Author: Jordan R. Jensen

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-10-09

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1504933117

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Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal & Professional Freedom is a groundbreaking personal leadership manual that introduces a metaphysical (or self-help) Theory of Everything. In the book, Dr. Jensen interweaves nearly three decades of personal experiences, literature reviews, and action research into an original Theory and Model of personal leadership called Self-Action Leadership. In the narrative sections of his book, Dr. Jensen describes the life and career challenges he has faced and overcame while struggling to manage obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression. Self-Action Leadership is the most comprehensive personal leadership handbook to hit the market since Dr. Stephen R. Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.


Self-Supervision

Self-Supervision

Author: Patrick J. Morrissette

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-23

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1000423662

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Self-Supervision synthesizes the literature on the theory and practice of self-supervision and provides counselors and human service professionals with a plan for the pursuit of independent professional growth. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on his work and on the changes in society and the field since the book’s initial publication. In these chapters, professionals will find cost-effective and efficient strategies for developing their skills while still ensuring that they’re providing quality treatment. They’ll also find a diverse array of strategies for self-supervision and a thoughtful discussion of reflective processes required to effectively evaluate one’s own practices.


The Collected Works of William Walker Atkinson - Self-Help Collection

The Collected Works of William Walker Atkinson - Self-Help Collection

Author: William Walker Atkinson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-12-29

Total Pages: 5782

ISBN-13:

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The Collected Works of William Walker Atkinson - Self-Help Collection is a comprehensive anthology of the influential self-help writings by the renowned author. Atkinson's literary style is characterized by practical advice and metaphysical themes, making his works a unique blend of psychology, mysticism, and personal development. This collection serves as a valuable resource for individuals seeking guidance on achieving success, improving mental faculties, and harnessing the power of thought. Atkinson's writings are not only timeless but also serve as a reflection of the self-help movement during the early 20th century. William Walker Atkinson, a pioneer in the New Thought movement, was a prolific writer and a respected figure in the field of personal development. His deep interest in psychology, philosophy, and esoteric teachings influenced his work, leading him to publish numerous books on self-improvement and spiritual growth. Atkinson's holistic approach to self-help continues to inspire readers to this day, making his works essential for anyone seeking personal transformation. I highly recommend The Collected Works of William Walker Atkinson - Self-Help Collection to individuals interested in exploring the intersection of psychology and spirituality. This anthology provides valuable insights and practical tools for self-improvement, making it a must-read for those on a journey of personal growth.


Self-focusing: Past and Present

Self-focusing: Past and Present

Author: Robert W. Boyd

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 0387347275

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Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation for nearly 50 years. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of this topic and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. This book should be of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications. From a practical point of view, self-focusing effects impose a limit on the power that can be transmitted through a material medium. Self-focusing also can reduce the threshold for the occurrence of other nonlinear optical processes. Self-focusing often leads to damage in optical materials and is a limiting factor in the design of high-power laser systems. But it can be harnessed for the design of useful devices such as optical power limiters and switches. At a formal level, the equations for self-focusing are equivalent to those describing Bose-Einstein condensates and certain aspects of plasma physics and hydrodynamics. There is thus a unifying theme between nonlinear optics and these other disciplines. One of the goals of this book is to connect the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filament-ation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of fs pulses, white light generation, and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10 km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing collapse. This book consists of 24 chapters. Among them are three reprinted key landmark articles published earlier. It also contains the first publication of the 1964 paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.


A Discourse on Self-Examination

A Discourse on Self-Examination

Author: Nathaniel Vincent

Publisher: Puritan Publications

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1626630364

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In one of the best treatments on self-examination ever written, Vincent takes great care teaching, “Prove your own selves,” from 2 Corinthians 13:5. Christians often do not take the necessary time to examine themselves in light of true Christian conversion and practice. The Apostle Paul even says that Christians must examine themselves before coming to the Lord's Supper. It is a requirement and commandment of utmost importance. Vincent explains what it means to prove ourselves, what it is to be proved, what we are to prove, the manner of proving, the rule of proving, special seasons of proving, and arguments for self-examination. He also shows differences between Christians and unbelievers in several cases of conscience, with a practical section of sin-mortifying application. He then concludes the book with how self-examination works prior to the Lord's Supper, and gives a number of personal meditations on how Christians should think before they come to the Lord's Supper. This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.


Liquid Ecclesiology

Liquid Ecclesiology

Author: Pete Ward

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9004347356

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In Liquid Ecclesiology Pete Ward explores the theological contours of the turn to ethnography in the study of the Christian Church. His approach rests on a theology of culture that holds in tension and paradox the expression of the Church and divine presence. This theological framework is then developed through an extended qualitative empirical case study examining the communicative practices of the contemporary evangelical Church. The case study examines how the evangelical Gospel through expression has become marginalised in the everyday life of communities being replaced by a new more individual and personalised theology seen in worship songs. The final section of the book returns to the debates around ethnographic forms of theology and the question of normativity. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in empirical and theological work, as well as those researching the contemporary Church and evangelicalism


Faith in Small Groups of Adolescents

Faith in Small Groups of Adolescents

Author: Harmen van Wijnen

Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9463010742

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The church is struggling with the gap between the church and adolescents. Over the last decades, the problem of ‘bridging the gap’ was often outsourced to youth ministry in different forms, such as special youth workers, faith-learning programs, local activities, national events, holidays, and education of youth leaders. However, the overall conclusion is that over the last ten years, traditional youth ministry forms cannot function as the bridge they should be; the gap is too deep and too wide, or perhaps the metaphor of the gap is no longer appropriate to describe the current situation regarding the church and adolescents. This book aims to provide a creative and innovative contribution to the search for new paradigms in youth ministry. This book shows that small groups are very important for adolescents. The natural social environment greatly influences adolescents in their process of transformation from childhood to adulthood, including faith socialization. The emphasis on the natural social environment can be defined as follows: “Being goes before organizing, and the individual cannot ‘be’ without others.” Briefly, “being together as a basic given.” The conclusion of this book is that youth ministry needs a twofold turn: a turn from the individual to the communal, and a turn from an organized environment to a natural environment.


Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume II

Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume II

Author: Paul J. Thibault

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-13

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1000209571

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Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term "language" as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably limited our thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked volumes of Thibault’s study articulate crucially important aspects of an emerging new perspective shift on language—the Distributed Language view—that is now receiving more and more attention internationally. Rejecting the classical view that the fundamental architecture of language can be localised as a number of inter-related levels of formal linguistic organisation that function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the distributed language view argues that languaging behaviour is a bio-cultural organiation of process that is embodied, multimodal, and integrated across multiple space-time scales. Thibault argues that we need to think of human languaging as the distinctively human mode of our becoming and being selves in the extended human ecology and the kinds of experiencing that this makes possible. Paradoxically, this also means thinking about language in non-linguistic ways that break the grip of the conventional meta-languages for thinking about human languaging. Thibault’s book grounds languaging in process theory: languaging and the forms of experience it actualises is always an event, not a thing that we "use". In taking a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, the book relates dialogical theories of human sense-making to the distributed view of human cognition, to recent thinking about distributed language, to ecological psychology, and to languaging as inter-individual affective dynamics grounded in the subjective lives of selves. In taking this approach, the book considers the coordination of selves in social encounters, the emergent forms of self-reflexivity that characterise these encounters, and the implications for how we think of and live our human sociality, not as something that is mediated by over-arching codes and systems, but as emerging from the endogenous subjectivities of selves when they seek to coordinate with other selves and with the situations, artefacts, social institutions, and technologies that populate the extended human ecology. The two volumes aim to bring our understanding of human languaging closer to human embodiment, experience, and feeling while also showing how languaging enables humans to transcend local circumstances and thus to dialogue with cultural tradition. Volume I focuses on the shorter timescales of bodily dynamics in languaging activity. Volume II integrates the shorter timescales of body dynamics to the longer cultural–historical timescales of the linguistic and cultural norms and patterns to which bodily dynamics are integrated.