The modernist paradigm of education seems to have failed in seeing an adequate rationale to advocate spiritual literacy and spiritual growth in schools because of its subscription to the secular worldview. Likewise, art educators, adhering to the secular sanctioning of spiritual…
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The primary aim of this study was to investigate clinical, religious, social, and spiritual factors that contribute to a quest orientation to religiosity in adolescents. Quest is a less structured, more open-ended and questioning approach to religion, and an inherently meaningfu…
This research explores Lave and Wenger's concept of communities of practice as experienced in a semester long Israel Bible Extension program run by The Master's College in Southern California. Twenty students participated during the fall of 2006 and 39 participated in the spring…
This dissertation consists of a manuscript intended for publishing and an accompanying Contextual Paper dealing the scholarly issues involved therein. The work explores the spiritual principles, both Eastern and Western, that inform the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and a…
This thesis explores the possibility of the emergence of a new spirit and practice of leadership in the world and seeks to make some of the principles, values, practices, and assumptions that ground those practicing this leadership more visible. The methodology used for the thes…
This study was a comprehensive literature review and original contribution that addressed two research questions: What are the differences between nonpathological religious/spiritual beliefs and religiosity in psychotic disorders? and What information needs to be included in a d…
This dissertation study explored the campus climate of Penn State University for religious, secular, and spiritual identities through use of Strange and Banning’s Educating by Design theoretical framework. Specifically, it employed use of case study methodology to qualitatively …
The problem is that the men of Freedom Fellowship Church in Canyon, Texas, do not have adequate training in the spiritual disciplines. Training in the spiritual disciplines would offer to the men in the church the proper leadership instruction that would give them the tools nece…
The purpose of this study was to explore whether (a) significant relationships exist between the sanctification of marriage and commitment above any effects of personality, religiosity, and spirituality in monogamous heterosexual marriages; and (b) whether these relationships mi…
The purpose of this research was to assess the faith maturity of Angola extension center students of Leavell College at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Seventy-one students completed the Faith Maturity Survey (FMS). An analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Kruskal-Walli…
Counselors working with traumatized clients should anticipate the possibility of experiencing vicarious trauma, based on the nature of the work. Vicarious trauma has varying effects on individuals. When looking specifically at spirituality, research has reported both positive an…
Based on an exegetical study of the interconnectedness of love for God and love for fellow believers in 1 John, this project is built on a small-group format that utilizes love for fellow believers as an avenue for spiritual growth. Through an eight-lesson study conducted on a w…
This research study explored the meaning of the lived spiritual conversion experience for the African American male by exploring in-depth descriptions of the phenomenon through semi-structured interviewing. The spiritual conversion process has been studied from perspectives of A…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the urban confraternity in 13th and 14 th -century Anatolia. Urban confraternities in late medieval Anatolia played a range of roles in cities like Ankara, Erzincan, Konya and Sivas. The important political …
This dissertation critically examines competing views of man and nature in mainstream, or "neoclassical," economic theory and Islamic economics. Ironically, the contemporary literature in Islamic economics often uncritically adopts the key philosophical presuppositions of neocla…
The purpose of my research is to understand how a socially diverse group of spiritually-minded activist scholars integrate their spirituality into their academic activities in the Canadian university context. My primary goal here is to make visible the experiences of spiritually…
The Shiite Imam--J`afar al-Sadiq (d. 765 AD) among many other fields of knowledge, such as law, theology, natural philosophy, and occult sciences, elucidated many spiritual teachings in his lifetime. He is one of the most vital and influential thinkers of the early centuries of …
Upon the success of the Islamic revolution in 1979 in Iran, a wave of persecution was initiated against women for different reasons. Religious belief (being a Bahai) has been among the various reasons for the persecution of women in Iran. This dissertation reviews the role of re…