Spirituality in the 21st Century
Spirituality in the 21st Century

Author: John L. Hochheimer

Publisher: Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 9781848881846

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Dialogue is at the center of the nine chapers in this book, the third in a series emanating from the 1st Global Conferen on Spirituality; Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy held in Prague, Czech Republic in March 2011. The authors engage in a variety of conversations between teacher and student, therapist and patient, author and author central to the emerging field of Spirituality Studies. They describe the spiritual dimensions of work being done in academic and applied fields around the world, such as adult and religious education, leadership, naturalism, health care, and literature. Throughout, the authors explore experiences of spirituality in the human search for meaning, belonging, suffering, healing, and forgiveness. Life, wrote James W. Carey, is like an ongoing conversation which started before you were born, in which you get to participate and contribute while you are alive, and which continues on after you die.

Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics

Author: Raysa Geaquinto Rocha

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-09-02

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 3111010414

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Can spirituality unlock the full potential of your organisation? "Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics" offers a groundbreaking exploration of how spiritual practices, wisdom traditions, and contemplative approaches can revolutionise organisational effectiveness and well-being. This seminal work brings together cutting-edge research from a distinguished panel of sixteen scholars across fourteen nations, illuminating the transformative power of integrating spirituality into knowledge management and strategies. Divided into two thought-provoking sections, the book first delves into the theoretical underpinnings of knowledge fields, spiritual knowledge management, and spirituality as a meta-story. The second section presents empirical insights across diverse contexts, including communities, the workplace, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Through its profound and multifaceted content, this book challenges readers to reimagine the role of spirituality in driving organisational success and personal growth. Whether you are a researcher, practitioner, or educator in management, knowledge management, or higher education, "Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics" offers invaluable perspectives on harnessing the power of spirituality to enhance knowledge dynamics and create thriving, purpose-driven organisations. Embark on a transformative journey that will reshape your understanding of the intersection between spirituality and organisations.

Children's Spirituality in Early Childhood Education
Children's Spirituality in Early Childhood Education

Author: Jennifer Mata-McMahon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1000904245

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This pioneering volume provides a thorough understanding of children’s spirituality from a holistic development perspective and explores the ways early childhood educators can nurture spirituality in the secular classroom. Making a critical distinction between spirituality and religion, this book draws on conceptual and empirical research, as well as authentic classroom vignettes to explore how theory translates into practice. Inviting readers to examine how their beliefs inform their practices, Children’s Spirituality in Early Childhood Education offers a purposeful window into supporting children’s learning and development with a focus on their souls, making it important reading for teachers, teacher candidates, researchers, and teacher educators in the field of early childhood education.

Spirituality across Disciplines: Research and Practice:
Spirituality across Disciplines: Research and Practice:

Author: Marian de Souza

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 3319313800

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This book collects multiple disciplinary voices which explore current research and perspectives to discuss how spirituality is understood, interpreted and applied in a range of contexts. It addresses spirituality in combination with such topics as Christian mysticism, childhood and adolescent education, midwifery, and sustainability. It links spirituality to a variety of disciplines, including cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and psychology. Finally, it discusses the application of spirituality within the context of social work, teaching, health care, and occupational therapy. A final chapter provides an analytical discussion of the different voices that appear in the book and offers a holistic description of spirituality which has the potential to bring some unity to the meaning, expression and practice of spirituality across a variety of disciplines as well as across cultural, religious and secular worldviews. "A strength of the book is that each chapter is characterized by a fearless confronting of oppositional perspectives and use of the latest research in addressing them. The book takes the difficult topic of spirituality into almost every nook and cranny of personal and professional life. There is a persistent grasping of the contentiousness of the topic, together with addressing counter positions and utilizing updated research across a range of fields in doing this. The opening and closing chapters serve as book ends that keep the whole volume together."Terence Lovat, The University of Newcastle, Australia "The interdisciplinary nature of the work is by far the strongest aspect of this volume. It has the potential to contribute to a dialogue between different professions and disciplines. This prospective publication promises to promote a more holistic approach to the study of spirituality. This volume takes into consideration a wide variety of issues. The way the editors have structured the sequence of chapters contributes to facilitate any possible dialogue between the different areas."Adrian-Mario Gellel, University of Malta, Malta

Finding All Things in God
Finding All Things in God

Author: Hans Gustafson

Publisher: Lutterworth Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 071884582X

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In Finding All Things In God, Hans Gustafson proposes pansacramentalism as holding the potential to find the divine in all things and all things in the divine. Such a proposition carries significant interreligious implications, particularly in the practice of theology. Presupposing theological practice as divorced from spirituality (lived religious experience), Gustafson presents pansacramentalism as a bridge between the two. In so doing, Gustafson offers a history of spirituality, sketching the foundations of a classical approach to sacramentality (through Aquinas) as well as a contemporary approach to the same (through Rahner and Chauvet). Through three fascinating case studies, this book presents particular instances of sacramentality in lived religious experience. Gustafson offers an exciting method of 'doing theology', one which is entirely compatible with the interdisciplinary field of interreligious studies.