Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Spiritual book'

Das Kreuzherrenkloster Hohenbusch bei Erkelenz (Niederrhein) wurde 1802 während der Säkularisation linksrheinischer Gebiete aufgehoben. Etwa 130 Handschriften und frühe Drucke aus seiner Bibliothek befinden sich heute vorwiegend in der Diözesanbibliothek Köln sowie in München, Brüssel, New York u.a. Ein 1801 im Auftrag der französischen Verwaltung erstelltes Inventar von 265 konfiszierten Büchern bildet das einzige Verzeichnis der ehemaligen Klosterbibliothek. Auf der Grundlage dieses Inventars und der erhaltenen Bestände unternimmt die Studie eine Teilrekonstruktion der Bibliothek. Schreibhände, Buchschmuck, Einbände, Besitzeinträge und Marginalien werden erfasst und beschrieben. Die inhaltliche Analyse des Bestandes belegt, dass sich Geschichte, Spiritualität und intellektuelle Ausrichtung des Klosters auch im Restbestand der Bibliothek spiegeln. Um sich in kulturhistorischer, interdisziplinärer Herangehensweise der sozialen und kulturellen Lebenswelt der Kreuzherren zu nähern, wird die Metapher des ‚Wissensraums‘ verwendet. Von dreidimensionaler Beschränkung befreit, umschreibt sie die Bibliothek als dynamischen Wissenskatalysator, der zu verschiedenen Zeiten die Generierung neuen Wissens auf der Grundlage vorhandener Informationen ermöglicht. Zwei Bestandsschnitte bei den Jahren 1520 und 1700 belegen so den Wandel des Klosters: Verstand es sich anfangs als geistlich-seelsorglich ausgerichtetes Haus, das später für die ordensinterne Ausbildung bedeutend wurde, ließen zuletzt Grundbesitz und zunehmender Wohlstand juristisch-administrative Fragen in den Vordergrund treten.
The Crosier monastery of Hohenbusch, situated between Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle, was dissolved in 1802, on the occasion of the secularization of church property. About 130 manuscripts and early prints from the canonry’s library survived in the diocesan library of Cologne, as well as in libraries in Munich, Brussels, New York etc. An inventory of 265 confiscated books, drawn up on behalf of the French administration in 1801, represents the only description of the former monastery library. The study attempts a reconstruction of the library based on this inventory, and on the material properties of the extant books. Script, book illumination, binding, ownership records and marginal notes in the books are therefore described. An analysis of the contents of the known books shows that they still reflect the history, spirituality, and intellectual bias of the canonry. The German metaphor ‘Wissensraum’ (knowledge space) shall help to approach the social and cultural life of the Crosiers. Perceived as a cultural concept beyond all restrictions of space, the metaphor aims to describe the library as a dynamic instrument which allows generating new knowledge based on existing information. A look on two segments of the library, the first up to the year 1520, the second up to 1700, shows how the monastery changed: Starting in a spiritual and pastoral orientation, it became an important house for the spiritual formation of novices, while at the end, due to its increasing land ownership, and prosperity, legal and administrative questions predominated.

Syftet med studien är att få en djupare inblick i om informanternas trosuppfattning harpåverkats av barnsångerna de fick sjunga i Jesu Kristi Kyrka av Sista Dagars Heliga då de varsmå, och i så fall hur detta har påverkat dem.Sex informanter som alla gick i Primär (kyrkans organisation för barn) har valts ut ochintervjuats. Informanterna är i åldrarna 19 till 32 och är från Sverige och USA. Studieninnehåller även en del om kyrkans musiktradition och kultur, samt analys av en primärsång.En av studiens slutsatser är att primärsångerna har varit ett medel för informanterna att lärasig mera om evangeliet, känna den Helige Anden och därigenom utveckla deras personligatro. Informanterna kommer fortfarande ihåg sångerna i vuxen ålder och kan på så sätt fortsättasjunga och fördjupa sig i sångernas religiösa budskap.

Australian artist Christian Waller nee Yandell (1894-1954) created artworks that unified her aesthetic and spiritual values. The technical and expressive brilliance of her work across a range of art media - drawing, painting, illustration, printmaking, stained glass and mosaic - makes it worthy of focused scholarly attention. Important influences on her practice included Pre-Raphaelitism, Art Deco and the Celtic Revival. Her spirituality was informed by a range of orthodox and alternative systems of belief, including: Christianity, Theosophy, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the international Peace Mission Movement. Acting as an emissary, she included personal symbols - especially the sun, the moon, stars and flowers - in her artworks to encourage spiritual contemplation. In this thesis, I argue that Waller harnessed the decorative and expressive potential of these movements - along with a commitment to Arts and Crafts values - to develop a personal set of symbols that expressed her sense of the spiritual. This encompassed the harmony of word, image and message, which underscored her work. It is for this reason that I locate Waller within the international discourse of spiritual art. Despite her remarkable talents across media and the distinctive quality of her art, Waller has always occupied a peripheral position within Australian art and art history. Even when she is included in significant books and exhibitions, most often it is in relation to her hand-printed book 'The Great Breath: A Book of Seven Designs' (1932) and her relationship with her husband, fellow artist Napier Waller. Key aims of this thesis are to highlight the breadth and depth of Waller's art practice and to demonstrate that she made important contributions to Australian art and to art that addresses the sacred.This thesis introduces a number of Waller's artworks, stories and personal ephemera into scholarship, making a comprehensive study of the artist possible for the first time. It makes a major contribution to scholarship on the artist, especially in relation to the spiritual values that underpinned her practice, as expressed in the key symbols that are identified. By extension, it contributes a more nuanced understanding of art produced between the First and Second World Wars to Australian art history and to scholarship on art that addresses the sacred.

As the Catholic revival that followed the Wars of Religion in France brought about the proliferation of new monasteries and religious orders, spiritual biographies of the founders and leaders of these houses were composed in unprecedented numbers. These texts, generally written by men about women, described cultural ideals about feminine piety more than the lived experience of nuns. This project seeks to examine the ways that spiritual biographies nevertheless represented literary practices in convents and actual collaboration between religious men and women. The vast array of biographical documents that were produced within convents became the source materials for the male authors of biographies, which allowed the members of convents to exert influence on the subject matter of the published work. The products of these collaborative efforts then served the interests of women as well as men, offering examples of religious communities’ virtues and valuable works to potential recruits and donors in addition to providing models of the ascetic piety and self-examination endorsed by women of the Catholic Reformation. In an era when authorship was a communal, rather than individual, endeavour, the participation of men did not necessarily erase all traces of women’s voices, but rather granted them the legitimacy and spiritual authority to be published before a wider audience. Spiritual biographies are therefore an example of how cloistered women could transcend the barriers of enclosure to influence a broader secular and religious public.
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This thesis focuses on the analysis of anonymous Kancionálek (printed in Prague at K. F. Rosenmüller between 1712-1727). The thesis shows, based on survey sources, his relationship to other hymn-books and his possible sources (non-Catholic "litterati" hymn- book and other). Main part of the thesis analyzes the modifications of the old repertoire and overall concept of the hymn-book: purpose is to describe the editorial strategies for creating a small non-noted hymn-book for broad masses of people. The appendix consists of catalog of all the songs, that are included in Kancionálek.

This dissertation thesis follows on the contemporary research focused on the early modern manuscript culture. The thesis deals with the Moravian manuscript hymnals from the 17th and 18th century and with their repertoire. The manuscript hymnography is one of the richest sources for an understanding of the popular piety, the Baroque literature and the church music. Some of the hymnals are accompanied by musical notation and a large number of them are beautiful illuminated. However, they have never been made accessible through modern edition, and there are hardly any analytical studies concerning these hymnbooks. The opening chapter summarizes the existing research on the given topic. It is followed by the description of approximately forty manuscript hymnals. The next chapter concentrates on some specific qualities of the manuscript publication and focuses on the song repertoire. The third chapter further develops the general theses. It is devoted to four manuscript hymnals from the sixties and the seventies of the 17th century. The analysis of their writing, ilumination and repertoire proves the same author - Jan Klabík from Želechovice. This chapter concentrates on the song repertoire, relations to older hymnals and the song canon. The fourth chapter focuses on two specific groups of songs: the...

This dissertation argues that the Elizabethan settlement was a deliberate, self-conscious spiritual reformation, inaugurated and nurtured from above by Elizabeth I in public and private devotional works put forth by royal authority, and taken up and advanced from below in influential books of public prayer published by long-term English evangelicals. This spiritual reformation offered a balance of continuity and change, of tradition and reform, intentionally designed to provide for the devotional needs of English Christians of divergent spiritual identities and confessional commitments. Responding to longstanding historiographical debates over the English Reformation as either a political reformation “from above” or a popular reformation “from below,” and to recent expositions both of the vitality of late medieval Catholic devotion and the dissemination of sixteenth-century Evangelical piety, the dissertation explores the English Reformation as a spiritual phenomenon, using Elizabethan prayer literature, both public and private, as its central sources. It argues that the foundations and contours of Elizabeth Tudor’s evangelically ecumenist style of piety and spirituality were established in her childhood in the mid 1540s through the influence of her stepmother, Katherine Parr. After her accession to the throne, Elizabeth’s piety and spirituality were reflected in her Act of Supremacy, her Act of Uniformity, and her Book of Common Prayer (1559), and were modeled and transmitted from above by her official primer of 1559. Elizabeth’s model of piety was consciously and deliberately taken up and advanced in the works of printers John and Richard Daye, and Henry Bull; and, authors Elizabeth Tyrwhit and Anne Wheathill. These printers and authors were long-term, committed evangelicals of a hotter temper than their queen. Bull advanced Elizabeth’s spiritual reformation by publishing traditional and evangelical prayers side-by-side. The two Daye prayer books followed Bull’s lead. The 1569 Daye prayer book also published a series of foreign language prayers authored by Elizabeth. Tyrwhit and Wheathill advanced the queen’s spiritual reformation not only by offering traditional and evangelical prayers, but also by constantly echoing the language of her Book of Common Prayer. The dual movement of these two matrices created the broadly based spiritual reformation that was the Elizabethan Settlement.

碩士
國立臺北教育大學
教育學系生命教育碩士班
106
Self-help books are widely distributed and purchased in many countries, and the widespread popularity of this type of book demonstrates that people desire to access self-help resources for promoting mental health. Through the perspective of self-help readers, researchers themselves can be benefit from the reading of self-help books to pursue self-improvement and personal development. This study focuses on the texts of two self-help books and applies the descriptive phenomenological approaches of Colaiz-zi and Giorgi. By deconstructing the two self-help book texts, this approach contributes to the text to reveal the phenomenal nature of objects, and it also benefits author to ex-press to the reader about the pure nature of the constituted phenomena, experience, and events. Furthermore, theme clusters and sub-themes can be extracted from the formulat-ed significance of these two texts in order to highlight the textual implications. Regard-ing a framework of the textual analysis, the study adopted the theories of self-actualization of Rogers and Maslow psychologists to obtain better understanding in terms of the significance of self-help reading to assist growth of an individual. The two texts are "You can heal your life" written by Louise Hay and "Dying to be me" written by Anita Moorjani. The characteristics of a self-actualized person are used as a framework to analyze the themes constructed by the texts, and these major themes respectively demonstrate openness to experience, self-concept, trust, exploration, crea-tivity and a good life. The themes present the potential of a self-actualized person to give full play one's personal characteristics, thereby achieving the ideal goals of self-improvement and self-realization.

碩士
朝陽科技大學
幼兒保育系碩士班
102
This study is to reveal life and the spirit of education in terms of spiritual education. The purpose of this study is based on the essential concept of Christianity, divided into four quadrants: “Human and God”, “Human and Ego”, “Human and Others”, and “Human and Universe” as the core of interpreting picture books. 11 picture books from “Daosheng” publisher were selected to be analyzed in this study ranging from 4 to 6-year-old children and their learning behaviors. Qualitative research method was adopted to interpret the stories’ themes, characters, scenarios, and endings from the truths of Bible’s point of view. At the result of this study, quadrant of “Human and God”, an important idea was formed between men and God at the point of creation, revelation, and salvation of life. Next, at the quadrant of “Human and Ego”, it was found that the relationship between humans and themselves is similarly referred to as a mirror. If you have a good relationship with yourself, you tend to look at yourself as a valuable and prosperous being. On the other hand, if your self-image is established on other people’s perceptions, then you would find their imprint on you. Thirdly, at the quadrant of “Human and Others”, love and understanding are the very basic elements of creating interpersonal relationship. Finally, between the interaction of “Human and Universe”, it is very similar to the connection of human and God and has to be made in spirit and in truth to realize the mercy of God and that the world He created is so glorious and wonderful. Thus, the balance and harmony of humans and all creation can be reached. Hopefully, this study will be a reference for parents and for spiritual education staff.

博士
國立中正大學
成人及繼續教育研究所
105
This study aimed to explore the developmental course of elderly’s spiritual health by means of participation in the creation of an illustrated life story book. The study has five major objectives: 1. To review the operational process of the teaching tools for writing an illustrated life story book and its output; 2. To guide elderly people to develop their self-awareness, self-exploration and self-regulation; 3. To reproduce elderly people’s life meaning, life value and life bond; 4. To realize surpassing self-limitations and development of elderly people; and 5. To offer suggestions for implementing spiritual health promotional courses for the elderly. To achieve the objectives, this study adopted qualitative research via purposive sampling, whereby 8 elderly people from among the students participating in Chiayi Wangtian Community’s illustrated life story book creation course were chosen as the study’s subjects. Semi-structured interview was used for collecting and analyzing the relevant data. The research results indicated that the six-stage developmental course of spiritual health is not a progressive mode; it involves constant moving back and forth between the stages, and self-surpassing is only possible at the final stage. During the developmental course of spiritual health, self-awareness often develops during self-exploration, while self-identity can bring out self-awareness and produce more active life motivation, as well as guide elderly people’s cognition towards their own meaning of life, value of life and life bond. Facilitating elderly people’s life bond helps to provide feedback to a positive reaction of life meaning and life value. Elderly people’s demand for spiritual health promotional courses, such as creating an illustrated life story book, lies more in the fulfillment of inner needs, but has less relevant responses. Based on the objectives of this study, the following conclusions were made: 1. The process of creating an illustrated life story book requires respectful listening, and individual teaching adjustments must be possible with regard to each participant. 2. Constant stimulation of the two elements of spiritual health development: self-awareness and self-exploration during the creation of the illustrated life story book will promote the self-identification of elderly people. 3. The creation of an illustrated life story book will help elderly people with self-identification and to reflect on the meaning of life, value of life and life bond. 4. The creation of an illustrated life story book helps elderly people experience self-surpassing; the extension of such effect requires constant course enhancement and packaged courses. 5. The creation of an illustrated life story book helps to develop the spiritual health of elderly people, especially in alleviating depression. Communities’ participation is recommended in the implementation of human resource training and courses. This study proposes the following suggestions according to the research results: 1. Suggestions for elderly people (1) Keep an open mind and get engaged in the promotion of one’s spiritual health. (2) Constant self-exploration and self-identification help to realize self-surpassing. (3) Taking spiritual health courses will help improve physical and mental health. 2. Suggestions for community work teams (1) The course planning shall be systemic and progressive, and increase courses targeting spiritual health. (2) The self-surpassing of elderly people requires a persistent drive and assistance of the community teams to achieve sustainable development. (3) The mental health problems of elderly people demand attentive listening to identify and solve the core issues, thereby promoting the growth of spiritual health. 3. Suggestions for elderly service institutions (1) Elderly of “the third age” have the wisdom needed for helping themselves, and the guidance of self-awareness by spiritual health can alleviate the dependence of the elderly on services. (2) Engagement in spiritual health courses helps the elderly to live with dignity, independence and life planning. (3) The creation of an illustrated life story book enhances the interactions between the elderly and their family members. 4. Suggestions for the operation of and guidance in creating an illustrated life story book (1) Listen carefully to the statements and expressions of the elderly, which will normally reinvigorate their deepest memories. (2) Respond to the expressions of the elderly without any bias, logic or negative thoughts. (3) Course design and actual guidance usually require adjustments based on actual operation, especially for elderly students. 4. Suggestions for follow-up studies (1) The seven terms herein on spiritual health development can be further individually explored, especially life meaning, life value and life bond. (2) Comparative studies on different areas of Taiwan, such as North, Central, South and East Taiwan. (3) In addition to alleviating elderly depression, the creation of an illustrated life story book also helps to retain and pass on the heritage of minority cultures, and thus can be implemented among different minority cultural groups.

The research in this thesis attempts to select texts from the African American Spirituals and the Bible that are appropriate for secondary language arts instruction, specifically for grades 9-12. The paper first gives an overview of legal justifications and educational reasons for teaching religious literature in public schools. Then, relevant educational standards are discussed, and, using the standards as an initial guide, I identify common themes within the Spirituals and Bible, which, from my analysis of various literatures, are slavery, chosenness, and coded language. Next, I describe my systematic effort to choose texts from the Spirituals and the Bible. To help accomplish this, I draw primarily from two tomes: Go Down Moses: Celebrating the African-American Spiritual and Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know. After I describe the research process of selecting texts, I form judgments about which biblical passages and African American Spirituals are particularly worthy of study, along with their applicable and mutual themes.

Hierdie verhandeling bestaan uit die ongepubliseerde manuskrip (gedigte) ʼn blaar hierdie boot, ʼn mini-verhandeling en ʼn tuisvervaardigde CD met ʼn paar gedigte. Die studie bespreek teoretiese terme en begrippe soos outoëtnografie, individuasie en vaslegging (imprinting), uit die vakgebiede van Sielkunde, Sosiologie, Opvoedkunde en Kommunikasiekunde. Die toepaslikheid van hierdie terme ten opsigte van geselekteerde literêre tekste word genoem en geïllustreer aan die hand van spesifieke skrywers. Daar word kortliks gekyk na die verstradisies van Sjina en Japan om die verwantskap met die Afrikaanse gedigte vas te stel. Sogenaamde “close reading” word geteleskopeer op geselekteerde verse uit ʼn blaar hierdie boot. ENGLISH : This dissertation consists of an unpublished anthology of poetry, ʼn blaar hierdie boot and a dissertation of limited scope, together with a home-recorded CD of poems. The study takes stock of theoretical terms and concepts like autoethnography, individuation and imprinting from the disciplines of Psychology, Sociology, Education and Communication. The relevance of these terms regarding selected literary texts is illustrated by the mention of specific authors and poets. A brief view on poetry traditions in China and Japan is offered, to illustrate the relation to Afrikaans poetry in general and the candidate’s poems in particular. So-called close reading is applied to selected poems from ʼn blaar hierdie boot Additional information available on a CD, stored at the Merensky Library on Level 3 Copyright
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Die Bybel is die boek wat die meeste gelees word en tog is dit moeilik om die leefwêreld van daardie era te verstaan. My doel is om ’n nuwe blik te gee op ’n paar Ou-Testamentiese simbole. Die ontdekking van ivoorobjekte in die middel negentiende eeu in Nimrud se paleise het tot groot opwinding gelei, aangesien dit met die literatuur ooreenstem. Die ivoorstukke het ’n “verhaal” kom vertel. Deur die streke se kuns te bestudeer kan ons ’n prentjie vorm van die kuns wat in die Ystertydperk in Mesopotamië en Palestina se paleise en welaf huise voorgekom het. Die ikonografie word ontrafel deur ’n paar ivoorstukke te “lees.” Ikonografie is die beskrywing en verklaring van beelde wat op bepaalde onderwerpe betrekking het. Sekere beelde kom herhaaldelik voor in Mesopotamië. In dié studie word hoofsaaklik die Gevleuelde Wesens, die Boom van Lewe, die Gevleuelde Sonskyf asook Rosette beskryf.
The Bible is widely read but it is difficult to understand the world and culture of the era that it is set in. It is my aim to provide new insight into a few Old Testament verses with their symbolic meaning. When ivory was discovered at Nimrud the discovery elicited huge excitement. The ivory pieces came to tell a story. Through studying the art of the different cultures a picture begins to appear of the palaces and homes of the wealthy in the Levant. The iconography could be “read.” Iconography is the science of interpreting the message the art wants to convey to the viewer. A few images are repeatedly showing up in the Levant during the Iron Age. In this study I am focusing mainly on The Tree of Life, the Winged Disc, the Rosette and Winged Spiritual Beings. I am attempting to discern the meaning behind these images.
Biblical & Ancient Studies
M.A. (Ou Nabye-Oosterse Studies)