Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Glen G. Scorgie, Simon Chan, Gordon T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In recent decades Christian spirituality, spiritual formation and spiritual theology have become important concepts in the global evangelical community. Consequently, an accessible and reliable academic resource is needed on these topics—one that will offer a discerning orientation to the wealth...
Spirituality, Inc.
Religion in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
For many Americans spirituality and business seem to be polar opposites: one is concerned with lofty questions of ultimate significance, the other with mundane matters of the daily grind. Yet over the last two decades the two have become increasingly linked, and as the barriers between them are broken...
Spirituality of Later Life
On Humor and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Humor expresses a certain heroic defiance in the face of life’s most challenging experience and provides a valuable resource for the celebration of life and the divine comedy of faith, hope, and love.-From the book chapter by Melvin A. Kimble, PhD
Studies have shown that as many people...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
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,...
Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine
Toward the Making of the Healing Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Understand and make use of the connections between health and religion to improve your practice!
Research points to a clear link between people's religious beliefs and practices and their health. These developments have ushered in a new era in health care, in which meaning and purpose stand...
The Power of Spirituality in Therapy
Integrating Spiritual and Religious Beliefs in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Factor your clients' religious beliefs into their therapy!
A recent Gallup poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed said they would prefer to receive counseling from a therapist who is religious. The Power of Spirituality in Therapy: Integrating Spiritual and Religious Beliefs...
Islamic Spirituality
Theology and Practice for the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Islamic Spirituality: Theology and Practice for the Modern World examines and explores the inner dimension of Islam. The writings of important figures in the historical development of Islamic spirituality are examined, as well as the major sources of religious authority in Islam, the Qur'an and Hadith.
Both...
Critical Spirituality
A Holistic Approach to Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people holistically, seeking to understand where they are coming from and what matters to them at a fundamental...
Awakening
Renewing the Spiritual Dimension of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Religion and spirituality are today at odds, and in many ways religion has lost contact with its basespirituality. As we try to reconcile the objective world out there with our own subjective experience of it, the split between what religion says and what our spirituality reveals can become even more...
Experimental Spirituality
Going Beyond Belief to Discover the Hidden Foundations of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
We live in an era when traditional religious approaches to spirituality are increasingly losing relevance. Equally, the sciences, which have very successfully helped us understand physical reality, are not equipped to fathom the subtleties of deep inner experience. Each approach offers useful insights,...
Biblical Foundations of Spirituality
Touching a Finger to the Flame
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Biblical Foundations of Spirituality invites readers to “touch a finger to the flame” of the Bible by offering guidance on what, how, and why to read Scripture as a source of spiritual nourishment. The second edition builds on Barbara Bowe’s acclaimed book with two new chapters by Laurie Brink...
A Christian Guide to Spirituality
Foundations for Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Spirituality is lived belief. When we pray, worship, or reach out to our neighbors, we live out our beliefs. Our beliefs structure our spirituality like skin stretched over the bones of our bodies.
These beliefs start with faith in God the Father through Jesus Christ as revealed through the...
Religionless Spirituality
Paragidm for a Global Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Religionless Spirituality claims that neither religion nor materialistic science satisfies the ache of the human heart for meaning or significance. We have experienced wonderful progress through the advances of science. Unfortunately, our achievements in many respects have become our atrocities. Since...
Minding the Self
Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Many people have an aptitude for religious experience and spirituality but don't know how to develop this or take it further. Modern societies offer little assistance, and traditional religions are overly preoccupied with their own organizational survival. Minding the Self: Jungian meditations on...