Spirituality, whether or not rooted in religion, is a core feature of what it means to be human. This important practice manual explains why spirituality and religion should be a fundamental consideration for professions that are centred around help...Loe edasi...
Tilton examines how cultural, political and economic forces exert pressures on the levels of freedom and equality for female Buddhists within the Buddhist community as well as womens rights within society....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the element of thresholds makeshift gates, makeshift structures and house doors as concepts of liminality in ancient Near Eastern magical rituals and the idea of transformation they reflect, specifically concentrating on the g...Loe edasi...
The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology....Loe edasi...
Social work is constantly epistemically evolving and embracing diverse bodies of knowledge to inform its ontology and practice frameworks....Loe edasi...
This Handbook provides readers, practitioners, and policy makers methods and approaches which can facilitate a spiritual and contemplative stance in research activities, and is an essential resource for researchers and students of Religion, Spiritua...Loe edasi...
This book gives a detailed account of two pañcyati monasteries, the Kadri Mah of Mangalore where its heads enthronement is spectacularly performed every twelve years, and the Caughera Mah of Dang Valley in Nepal, the royal foundation of which gives...Loe edasi...
This book examines the ways in which mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ine...Loe edasi...
This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and oriented toward spiritual growth....Loe edasi...
This book offers a framework for qualitative studies of spirituality within motherhood research. It will appeal to women who have transitioned to motherhood. It will be of assistance to professionals who wish to approach any aspect of maternity care...Loe edasi...
Covering ten major religions, this book explores how practical wisdom from spiritual traditions permeates corporate cultures. It includes case studies of over twenty multinational corporations analysed with an emphasis on their spiritual values, alo...Loe edasi...
Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise examines the many forms of spirituality in sport from a psychological perspective, covering topics linking spirituality to athlete development, injury, exercise motivation, and ageing athletes, and offe...Loe edasi...
This book begins by delving into definitions of mysticism and existentialism, and then traces the elements of mysticism present in German and French thought during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Loe edasi...
First published in 1935, Men & Gods in Mongolia is rare and unusual travel book that takes the reader into the virtually unknwon world of Mongolia, a country only now opening up to the West....Loe edasi...
Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves is the first volume to address the gendered intersections of religion, spirituality and the secular through an ethnographic approach....Loe edasi...
This key text presents an accessible and diverse exploration of spirituality in mental health practice, broadening the definition of spirituality to comprise a variety of transcendent experiences....Loe edasi...
Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of todays capitalist corporations? By analysing the nature of inclusive organizations, and the ethical preferences in Islamic choice framework, the authors highlight individual as...Loe edasi...
This book revisits Edwards doctrine from the perspective of recent work in the philosophy of emotions and other sub-disciplines, recovering this often neglected doctrine in contemporary theology and renewing it through interacting with contemporary...Loe edasi...