Assessing the Effect of Disease Progression on Spirituality

Abstract

Disease and sufferings lead religious persons nearer to almighty in search of mercy. Not much is known about how to design and disseminate programs of spiritual exercises and spiritual indicators for persons suffering with some disease (sufferers). Research is required to advance the understanding of prioritized internal and external indicators responsible for spiritual awakening among these sufferers. In this paper, an attempt is made to compute OFDP (overall futuristic decision priority) weights to generate spiritual scenarios for spiritual awakening by using MCFDM (multi-criteria futuristic decision-making) methodology. The generated prioritized spiritual scenarios responsible for spiritual awakening among sufferers were then used to assess the effect of some kind of disease (physical problem, suffering, disorder, etc.) on strengthening their religious faith and defining their optimal spiritual trajectories towards ultimate reality. In this research work, a two-phased DRFI (disease-religious faith-interaction) experiment is also designed and developed. The results derived from Phase-I pilot research study based on prioritized spiritual scenarios on 20 male and female sufferers are also presented.