What is spirituality?

Speck, Bruce W.

doi:10.1002/tl.207

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“…Scholars in theology, psychology, and sociology generally admit that a definition of spirituality constitutes a serious challenge (Van der Veer 2009;Speck 2005). This difficulty extends to the notion of "religion" and "religiosity".…”

Section: First Shift: a Diffused Spiritual Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Transitions in the Meaning of Religious Constructs: The Case of the Philippines

Baring

2018

Religions

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Recent data from two local empirical studies on religion (Baring et al. 2018) and the sacred (Baring et al. 2017) show how an imminent shift in Filipino youth attitudes articulates new perspectives on religion, religiosity, and spirituality. This paper presents an analysis of three emerging peculiar characterizations of religious experience by young students culled from two previous empirical studies. These newfound descriptions indicate a departure from traditional binary religious categories (e.g., sacred–profane, religious–spiritual) typically employed in many studies. The first describes a peculiar interpretation of religious experience indicating an epistemological shift from an exclusive definition to a diffused interpretation of religious–spiritual categories: as “personal religiosity” and “institutional spirituality”. Personal religiosity reports an unexpected combination of personal ethical forms of de-institutionalized religious views of students. Institutional spirituality represents beliefs that honor institutional affiliation. The second describes the emergence of personal–communal poles discerned from their notions of religion and sacred. The third highlights the ethical orientation of students’ religious perceptions. These peculiar conceptual shifts may have pastoral and theological implications.

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Section: First Shift: a Diffused Spiritual Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Transitions in the Meaning of Religious Constructs: The Case of the Philippines

Baring

2018

Religions

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“…For those involved in the teaching and mentoring of nursing students, nurses and health professionals, certain questions persist: what is spirituality, what is spiritual care, how do you learn to provide spiritual care, and how do you teach students spiritual care? [29,30] In nursing literature we found an interwoven tapestry of ideas: spirituality has something to do with meaning making and purpose [2,26,27,31,32]; it is related to values and beliefs; it is subjective verses objective, and related to traits of honesty, love, caring and compassion, wisdom, imagination and creativity [33]. Astin suggests spirituality points to our interiors/our subjective life, having to do with human consciousness "what we experience privately in our subjective awareness" ( [26], p. 34).…”

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confidence: 99%

Relational Inquiry—Attending to the Spirit of Nursing Students

Spadoni¹,

Sevean²

2016

Religions

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Abstract:The impetus for this paper came from our experiences as learner-teachers of re-considering the epistemological and ontological roots of our undergraduate-nursing curriculum. It began as an earnest dialogue regarding particular aspects of first year undergraduate-nursing theory content, specifically, caring and compassion, self-concept and nursing identity, spirituality and culture, a simple question-how could we better engage first year nursing students with what they frequently considered to be "abstract" and "soft" concepts? An organic need to be "good teachers" and introduce learners to fundamental concepts in nursing, and have them understand, in meaningful ways, the complexity of "caring and compassion" with respect to what it is that nurses do, think, and enact. To this end, we enlisted Relational Inquiry, as articulated by Gweneth Hartrick Doane and Colleen Varcoe, as a means of creating an epistemological and ontological foundation for our teaching practice in order to better support the development of critically reflective, community orientated, caring relational practitioners. Initially, we thought relational inquiry was an epistemological endeavor and found that it is an ontological undertaking. We discovered that practicing from a relational caring perspective shifted our focus from the content to the student as a developing practitioner and human being. Through the process of re-imagining our teaching practice, we have begun to re-consider the importance of "attending to the spirit" of nursing students.

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“…These include feelings of connectedness with others, the capacity to transcend the limits of psychic and physical conditions, the ability to understand the wider meaning of one's actions, and the need to develop one's inner self holistically in relationship to some ultimate value. Such an understanding incorporates the general ideas found in the literature and avoids reducing spirituality to a single aspect such as "belief in God" while at the same time circumventing definitions that have multiple features (often reducible to each other) (Schneiders, 1989;Speck, 2005).…”

Section: Spirituality In the Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of managers’ spiritual mindfulness on ethical behaviour in organisations

McGhee¹,

Grant²

2015

JSLaM

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Recently, there have been several corporate scandals both in New Zealand and overseas involving unethical management behaviour that caused significant harm to a range of stakeholders. The literature on spirituality and mindfulness posits that each could enhance ethical praxis and management conduct if they were encouraged in organisations. To date, minimal work has been completed bringing these related constructs together and demonstrating how and why they might influence ethical decision-making and behaviour positively. This paper attempts such a combination. As part of a larger study, 14 managers from a variety of organisations were interviewed to determine how their spirituality influenced their ethical behaviour in the workplace. Using stories of real-life critical incidents and thematic analysis, this research found that managers bring a spiritual consciousness that is mindful of themselves, others and their context to their decisions and actions in complex and challenging ethical situations. Moreover, while these managers' spiritual mindfulness was cognisant of the immediate present, they also transcend their environments in ways that often led to enhanced moral praxis and conduct. Conversely, situations in which they failed to be spiritually mindful resulted in feelings of frustration, anxiety and loss. Based on these findings, a model of how spirituality and mindfulness might relate to produce ethical behaviour in organisations is provided. The paper concludes by offering suggestions for future research.

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What is spirituality?

Abstract: Spirituality is difficult to define, but two paradigmatic approaches to worldviews can help provide the basis for two groups of definitions.

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

Emerging Transitions in the Meaning of Religious Constructs: The Case of the Philippines

Emerging Transitions in the Meaning of Religious Constructs: The Case of the Philippines

Relational Inquiry—Attending to the Spirit of Nursing Students

The influence of managers’ spiritual mindfulness on ethical behaviour in organisations

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