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Spiritual Life (spiritual + life)
Selected AbstractsTowards a Mystical and Prophetic Spiritual LifeTHE ECUMENICAL REVIEW, Issue 2-3 2007Emmanuel Clapsis First page of article [source] Growing up Charismatic: Morality and Spirituality among Children in a Religious CommunityETHOS, Issue 4 2009Thomas J. Csordas The first question has to do with the problem of how charisma can be successfully transferred to the second generation of a prophetic community. The second question has to do with how children come to be, and to act as, moral and spiritual beings. These questions converge in a particular way in the ethnographic setting of The Word of God Community: it is founded on a charismatic spirituality closely intertwined with a moral imperative, such that its viability depends on reproduction of that morality and spirituality among children of the founding generation. Data come from interviews with 38 children across three age groups (5,7, 10,12, and 15,17 years), conducted over a four-week period subsequent to a community schism, which left members in a state of reflection, self-examination, and openness. We focus on children's responses to a series of culturally specific vignettes designed to present various dilemmas of moral reasoning. In this highly charged context moral and spiritual life are based on an active engagement characterized by dynamic and contested processes, and it is through these processes that individuals make meaning out of and reconstruct the moral code of their culture. [childhood and adolescence, religion, Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Pentecostalism, morality, spirituality, intentional communities] [source] Tradition and Reason: Two Uses of Reason, Critical and ContemplativeINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2004Fergus Kerr This twofold appropriation of reason sets the stage for this article, a stage occupied in turn by Newman and by Aquinas. The critical function of theological work is expressed via the 1877 preface which Newman wrote for his Lectures on the Prophetic Office of the Church. The critical office of theology is vital not only to the practice of theology itself but to the liturgical and spiritual life of the church, and to the exercise of church leadership if that leadership is not to descend into tyranny. For the theologian, reason is not antithetical to contemplation; rather, contemplation includes a form of reasoning. Theology is ,a schooling in the discipline of contemplating the self-revealing God', a discipline of ,metaphysical ascesis' which compels both intellectual conversion and moral practice. Such an ascesis was practised well by Aquinas, and Kerr reflects on the Summa Theologiae as ,a training in a form of metaphysical reasoning', being schooled in the knowledge of God which strips away our ,idolatorous inclinations'. [source] A relational framework for the study of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of African AmericansJOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2001Jacqueline S. Mattis Religiosity and spirituality are defining features of African American life. However, within psychology, research on African American religiosity and spirituality has proceeded without benefit of a conceptual framework. This paper labors toward a framework that examines the roles of religion and spirituality in the development and maintenance of social relationships. We review empirical research on the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of African Americans with an eye toward illuminating the affective, cognitive, and behavioral mechanisms through which religion and spirituality shape individual, family, and communal relationships across the developmental span. Future directions for quantitative and qualitative research on African American religious and spiritual life are suggested. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source] Come to the river: Using spirituality to cope, resist, and develop identityNEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 104 2003Sherry K. Watt This chapter describes and discusses spiritual lives of African American female college students, including elements of coping, resisting, and developing identity. [source] | ||||||||||