Integrative Spirituality

Integrative Spirituality
Author: Patrick J. Mahaffey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 042987975X

In Integrative Spirituality, Patrick J. Mahaffey elucidates spirituality as a developmental process that is enhanced by integrating the teachings and practices of multiple religious traditions, Jungian depth psychology, and contemplative yoga. In the postmodern world of religious pluralism, Mahaffey compellingly argues that each of us must fashion a unique path to wholeness which integrates aspects of life and of the self that have become disconnected and disowned. Integrative Spirituality uniquely conjoins four components: exemplary religious pluralists from three traditions, individuation, the forms of contemplative Hindu yoga that have been successfully transmitted to the West, and a presentation of two models for integrating psychological growth and spiritual awakening. The book presents pioneering practitioners in each field who exemplify how we may fashion our own approach to integrating both spiritual awakening and psychological development and delineates an array of spiritual practices that integrate the somatic, psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects of life. Ultimately, Mahaffey contends that integrative spirituality is a mode of being that fully embraces the divinity inherent in each of us and in the world. Integrative Spirituality will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, transpersonal and Jungian psychology, and religious studies and contemplative education. It will also be of interest to analytical and depth psychologists in practice and in training, and to anyone seeking a greater understanding of spirituality, psychological growth, religious traditions, individuation, and contemplative yoga.

Finding Your Real Self

Finding Your Real Self
Author: Dr. Don Chatfield
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1450081622

Dossey & Keegan's Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice

Dossey & Keegan's Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice
Author: Mary A. Blaszko Helming
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1284231690

Dossey & Keegan's Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Eighth Edition covers basic and advanced concepts of holism, demonstrating how holistic nursing spans all specialties and levels. This text is distinguished by its emphasis on theory, research, and evidence-based practice essential to holistic nursing.

From Force to Persuasion

From Force to Persuasion
Author: Andrew M. Davis
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666784443

At the heart of process-relational theology in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) is the rejection of coercive omnipotence and the embrace of divine persuasion as the patient and uncontrolling means by which God works with a truly self-creative world. According to Whitehead, Plato's conviction that God is a persuasive agency and not a coercive agency constitutes "one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion." According to Hartshorne, omnipotence is a "theological mistake." What is behind these claims? Why do process-relational philosophers and theologians reject divine omnipotence? How have they justified a commitment to divine persuasion, and what kind of theoretical and practical implications are involved? Featuring contributions from key process-relational thinkers, this book situates a shift "from force to persuasion" across multiple thresholds of discourse, from philosophy and theology to spirituality and politics to pluralism, axiology, and apocalypse. It aims to reawaken attention to the operations of divine persuasion as ever-loving and inherently noncoercive, but always at risk in an open and relational universe.

The Participatory Turn

The Participatory Turn
Author: Jorge N. Ferrer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2008-10-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 079147755X

Can we take seriously religious experience, spirituality, and mysticism, without reducing them to either cultural-linguistic by-products or simply asserting their validity as a dogmatic fact? The contributors to this volume argue that we can, and they offer a new way: the "participatory turn," which proposes that individuals and communities have an integral and irreducible role in bringing forth ontologically rich religious worlds. They explore the ways this approach weaves together and gives voice to a number of robust trends in contemporary religious scholarship, including the renewed study of lived spirituality, the postmodern emphasis on embodied and gendered subjectivity, the admission of alternate epistemic perspectives, the irreducibility of religious pluralism, and the pragmatist emphasis on transformation—all trends that raise serious challenges to the currently prevalent linguistic paradigm. The first part of the book situates the participatory turn in the context of contemporary Religious Studies; the second part shows how this approach can be applied to various global traditions, ancient and contemporary, from Western esotericism to Jewish mysticism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sufism, and socially engaged Buddhism.

Spirituality, Values and Mental Health

Spirituality, Values and Mental Health
Author: Mary Ellen Coyte
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1843104563

This edited work addresses policy and practice for professional working in the mental health field and for carers and people with mental health problems themselves, enabling them to overcome the stigma often associated with mental health problems, and the subject of spirituality.

Keeping the Faith in Exile: Kuwait-Coptic Orthodox Diasporic Spirituality

Keeping the Faith in Exile: Kuwait-Coptic Orthodox Diasporic Spirituality
Author: Benjamin Daniel Crace
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2023-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900467957X

Few churches today can trace their lineage as far back as the Copts. Their ancient traditions and rituals go back as far as the very beginnings of Christianity. For centuries, they have withstood many trials and martyrdoms. But in the twentieth century, many Copts left their homeland and scattered all over the Earth, seeking prosperity and security. Many went to the West, but many others went to the heart of the Islamic world: the Arabian Gulf. They took their faith with them into this new and challenging environment. In this context, hybrid forms of spirituality emerged, anchored in the ancient practices but sharpened by contact with globalisation. This migrant spirituality characterises their stories and touches the heart of what it means to be a Christian sojourner today.

Apologetics in 3D

Apologetics in 3D
Author: Peter S. Williams
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666702919

This collection of papers and other materials from English philosopher Peter S. Williams develops a holistic vision for Christian apologetics centered around a biblical understanding of spirituality. Grounded in two decades of practical experience, here is a vision of apologetics that's interested in communicating through beauty and goodness as well as logic and arguments.

Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology

Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology
Author: Yoon Shin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-12-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1793638756

In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology, Yoon Shin critically builds on James K. A. Smith’s postmodern Pentecostal epistemology with the aid of Reformed epistemology. It takes the reader through an interdisciplinary journey that exposits and illumines the relationship among Pentecostal spirituality, continental and analytic philosophy, postliberalism, moral psychology, and philosophy of emotion. This work clarifies misunderstandings of Smith, in Smith, and between continental and analytic epistemology, constructively and coherently synthesizing the sources through interdisciplinary analysis and thereby demonstrating the value of mashup philosophy. The resulting epistemology strengthens the mostly descriptive epistemology of Smith with the warrant criteria of Alvin Plantinga.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality
Author: Lisa J. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190905530

This updated edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Lisa J. Miller has gathered together a group of ground-breaking scholars to showcase their work of many decades that has come further to fruition in the past ten years with the collective momentum of a Spiritual Renaissance in Psychological Science. With new and updated chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, the Handbook is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. Highlighting fresh ideas and supporting science, this overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.