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Radetich, Erin. "Transcending with Tea An Interfaith Center for Spiritual Wellness and Understanding." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10125616.

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The art of tea or "teaism" is grounded in recognizing the polarity between the spiritual and material worlds with the goal of finding harmony and pause. The exploration of the metaphysical realities and principles of Japanese tea rituals can also be found in creating sacred space within the mundane to achieve harmony amidst the dissonance of the secular world. Creating a campus inter-faith center will both provide a place for students to embrace their spirituality or religion as well as facilitate understanding between religions in a world today in which it is necessary. A tea room based on the Japanese principles of the tea ceremony will provide a common ground where those with differing beliefs come together to take part in a ritual that promotes spirituality and moral values shared by many religions. Exploring Japanese tea history and the ritual will lay the groundwork for establishing a modern tea house based on those principles. Religious pluralism and what spaces religions currently use and their rituals will help to establish the programming for the interfaith center. Rituals are important aspects of both religions and the tea ceremony and are part of both the sacred and secular realm, public and private (or individual or group). Introspection and reflection through meditation and prayer are central to the design of the space in both areas of the tea room, such as the outer and inner waiting areas, as well as in the spaces dedicated to spirituality and religion for both individual and group worship. The juxtaposition and boundary between secular and sacred space will be explored. Nature, which is meditated upon in Japanese tea rituals and is also important to many religions, is also an important theme. The method of research includes historical writings on tea rituals and theoretical essays on philosophy of tea and religious influences. Studying sacred spaces such as synagogues, churches, mosques and temples and how people use those spaces will give insight into how users interact within those spaces. Case studies of both a multifaith center, interfaith chapel and modern tea house will all provide programmatic and design precedence for the final design.

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Mrdjenovich, Adam Joel. "University Counseling Center Practices Regarding Guidance on the Health Effects of Religious/Spiritual Involvement." Connect to full text in OhioLINK ETD Center, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=toledo1256083041.

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Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Toledo, 2009.
Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Education." Bibliography: leaves 238-301.

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Currie, Sean E. "Sacred Selves: An Ethnographic Study of Narratives and Community Practices at a Spiritual Center." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002799.

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Kinnison, Michael Shane. "Teaching Baptists a spiritual formation of listening to God as our divine center the practices of Lectio divina and centering prayer /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004.

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Kellems, Ian Stuart. "A survey of university counseling center therapists working with clients who have religious/spiritual issues /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2922.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Faigin, Carol Ann. "Seeking Your Center: Assessing a Computer-Based Psychoeducational Intervention for Spiritual Struggles in College Freshmen." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277013442.

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Culberson, Barry. "The effects of preaching healing in the context of prayer and fasting /." Free full text is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/oru/fullcit?p3120632.

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Binnie, Phillip B. "The effect of spirituality class on improving spiritual assessment scores and the relationship of spiritual assessment scores to length of stay of patients admitted to the psychiatric residential rehabilitation treatment program at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Hall, Robert B. "Evaluating strategies for enabling extension center students at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to meet the curriculum requirements in the spiritual and character formation competency." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Cheng, Yung-Hsin. "Discussion about the spiritual growth of the oversea mainland Chinese church believers under the influence of Communism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Simonova, Hanna. "Architektonická studie sakrálního objektu a komunitního centra Salesiánského Brno - Líšeň / druhá etapa." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-443699.

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The main theme of the diploma is the design of a new Roman Catholic church and parish within the framework of the construction of a panel residential complex in Nový Líšeň in Brno. Due to the fact that Salesian children and youth workers came to the area in 1990, it became necessary to build a church and a Salesian youth center. This proposal is based on an analysis of the urban context. The church is surrounded by prefabricated houses next to a school, a health clinic, a shopping center, and a Salesian youth center in a gently sloping area facing south with the dominant Palava hills.

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Korchagina, Anastasiia. "Kostel ve městě." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-355008.

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The main goal of this project is trying to understand how a modern church looks like. If it follows the same principles like traditional churches and or weather the new liturgy needs new idea of nowadays signs. What affects the religious architecture, weather it's designed in a context of a intense housing developement.

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Damore, Deborah Rose. "H.H.S.C. Spiritual Health Care Centre, integrated spiritual health care graduate academic programme." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0015/MQ55440.pdf.

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Obr, Patrik. "Spiritualita Ostrava !!!" Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-391847.

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The diploma thesis is the proposal of the Christian community and spiritual center near Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Ostrava Kunčičky. The building program corresponds to the catchment area of Kunčičky and includes an existing church building (conversion for the contemporary liturgy) with the addition of a new parish with a living space, a parish office and a meeting room. The existing building of the parish (adaptation for commercial use, bistro and offices) and the community center includes: a social hall with the necessary background, 2 flats 1 + kk and apartment for collective accommodation, clubroom and classroom for leisure activities, music, art workshop and warehouse. Part of the area is new square as the new centre of Kunčičky, the park and green area "open garden" with a children's and sports playground. The proposal is based on the creation of a new public space in the vicinity of the existing church. The pre-church is widened and creates a new square, the center of the city with the potential of meeting, landmark, festivities, Christmas markets, etc. On the contrary, the community center is behind the church and creates a new public space "open garden". Around it all community events are concentrated. Among these spaces is a "filter" set, as a soothing element of two poles. The complex offers people from this locality also a wide range of the city, a new offer of cultural, social and spiritual activities.

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Lau, Wing Winnie. "A place of self-transcendence meditation centre on Tung Lung Island /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987114.

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Wong, Wing-fat. "The spiritual path for Buddhists." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987357.

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Wong, Yuk-yeung. "Buddhist retreat at Tei Tong Tsai." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25946419.

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Douglas, Courtney. "United in diversity an exploration of spiritual space /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Wong, Wing-fat, and 黃榮發. "The spiritual path for Buddhists." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31987357.

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Yu, Franklin. "Taoist retreat." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25945956.

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Chan, Kin-kwok Stephen. "In Search of "nothingness"." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25953758.

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Blassnigg, Martha. "The cinema and its spectatorship : the spiritual dimension of the 'human apparatus'." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2007. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/the-cinema-and-its-spectatorship(d400953a-3b43-4ab1-8dc2-8dad62bcb25b).html.

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This thesis undertakes an excursion into the network of science, art, and popular culture at the end of the 19th century to examine the interrelations between these various strands in relation to the emerging cinema and its so-called spiritual dimension. Instead of an ontology of the image, or a cultural (metaphorical) analysis of spirits, phantoms or spectres as immaterial manifestations, this thesis proposes an ontology of the spectators' perception through which the spiritual dimension, frequently associated with audio-visual media, should be sought within the perceptual processes of the mind. It takes the cinema spectators' experience into the centre of this investigation and argues for their active participation in and understanding of the cinema as philosophical dispositive from the very beginnings of its inception. It looks into the interconnections between the various constituencies that shaped the projecting image technologies and their reception at the time. In particular the context of a broader intellectual framework and concerns about time, movement, memory and consciousness, reveal a thickness and complexity especially in the interrelations of the oeuvres of Jules-Etienne Marey and Aby Warburg. Henri Bergson's system of thought, germane to these concerns, will be elaborated in detail and used to build an onto logical/anthropological model of the cinema spectator in order to suggest how the contradictory forces of the rational and the 'irrational' can help us understand the spiritual dimension of the emerging cinema. The cinema dispositifm this approach appears as a paradigm to exemplify the productivity of this nexus and provides a platform for further research into issues such as consciousness, precognition, intuition and psychic phenomena. The spectator in this anthropological/ontological discussion treated in a conceptual way and grounded in a historical context appears in a fuller dimensionality that allows us to accommodate the so-called spiritual dimension beyond the dichotomy of the material and immaterial, the body and the mind. This model of the cinema spectator that this thesis proposes can be defined as an embodied, immanent and above all actively participant agent, which can be extended into a wider discussion of the perception, uses and interpretations of technology.

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Vogelová, Klára. "Architektonická studie sakrálního objektu Brno - Líšeň." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-414299.

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Theme of this project is new building proposal of The Sword of the Holy Spirit church and spiritual center, located in Brno-Líšeň. This part of the Brno is 6 km northeast away from the city center. This proposal include building or construction of the church with rectory. Main goal was to create a dignified place for worship and also for meetings of parish comunity. This place should to point out on spiritual importance of whole building with its architecture, construction engineering, dispositions and artistic solution. The church is connected with congregation of the Selesians of Don Bosca in Líšeň, whose main goal is education of youth in the spirit of Christian traditions. One of the requirements was to create modern church not only for the comunity of Selesians, but also for the general public. The church which will benefit its surroundings and gives new life into this place. Architectural solution of church is trying to follow an idea of proposal based not only from character of the sacral building, but also from biblical motives. The church should remind hug of the God, who is in love to the people. The ring describes one of the main principles of Selesians – looking for everything what connects people, education in faith, comunity. In proposal is calculated with spiritual center including multifunctional hall, classrooms, adoration chapel, offices, apartment for pastor and also with occasional accommodation. Parish center is geometrically accurate, rectangular and precisely fitted. While building of church is different by its shape and character. It creates a dominant of the in surrounding panel housing estate. This dominant does not disturb surrounding because of its clean lines and used materials – white concrete.

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Lau, Wing Winnie, and 劉穎. "A place of self-transcendence: meditation centre on Tung Lung Island." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31987114.

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Strnad, Miroslav. "Kostel ve městě." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-355012.

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The design of the Church “Seslání Ducha Svatého” with the spiritual center in Líšeň, Brno answers the question: "How should the contemporary church look like?" Analysis of the site, awareness of the character and requirements of today's time, historical and cultural continuity and liturgical changes of the last century gave rise to 7 points of the architecture of the new church. This program describes the new liturgy, defines the form of the subordinate community of believers, characterizes the work with the material envelope of the inner space, establishes the relation between the horizontal and the vertical and the curved and rectangular, explains the theme of orientation and work with the interior. The final urban and architectural solution is based on these assumptions. The spiritual center, consisting of a multifunctional hall, a classroom, a club-room, a rectory, a cafeteria with a library, and underground garages with technology, is geometrically rigid, layered and precisely fitted, while church is completely different in its shape and scale, indicating functional and sacral differences. The abstract form of the church refers to the inviolability of God. The interior of the Church is a place of silence, a pure and noble space, formed by higher order principles. Another important way of expression becomes light as the creator of the spiritual space. An important part of the proposal is also the principle of organizing a church with a spiritual center around the inner square opened to the south by a wide entrance staircase.

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Davis, Crystal J. "Self-transcendence and servant leadership behavior in new thought spiritual centers| A correlational study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3691408.

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Researchers who specialize in the area of self-transcendence and servant leadership behavior have concluded that the presence of servant leadership behavior and spirituality may be essential in creating adaptive and successful organizations. Given the demand and concern for ethical, moral, and spiritual leaders’ conscious of others and the greater world community, interest in self-transcendence and servant leadership behavior has grown substantially. A limited body of evidence exists regarding the ways in which self-identified spiritual leaders implement servant leadership behavior in the spiritual, organizational setting. Gaining additional information on the ways in which self-identified servant leaders and spirituality apply in organizations is valuable to enable organizations to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In this research, the purpose of this study was to examine whether a relationship existed between the variables of self-transcendence and perceived servant leader behaviors among senior leaders and their followers at New Thought Spiritual Centers in the United States. This study sought to examine whether a leaders’ selftranscendence as measured by the Assessment of Spirituality of Religious Sentiments Scale (ASPIRES), correlates with being recognized as a servant leader among one’s followers as measured by the Servant Leadership Behavior Scale (SLBS). The conclusions extrapolated from research question 1 suggested there was a significant positive correlation between selftranscendence and servant leadership behavior. The findings for research question 2 suggested partial support for leaders’ self-assessed self-transcendence and self-assessed servant leadership behavior. The highest scores for leaders’ reported from the ASPIRES scale was the subscales of Prayer Fulfillment, and less high among the subscales Universality and Connectedness.

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Havlík, Jiří. "Architektonická studie kostela pro sídliště Líšeň-Vinohrady v Brně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-355019.

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This diploma thesis deals with the issue of sacral space of Brno-Líšeň, where there is a request to build a church as a part the Salesian Center. Part of the problematics was the construction of the Parish house and the Community house as a part of the church mentioned above. The plot is situated at the site of the southern slope between Horáková and Molákova Street and in close proximity of the Salesi center. The project is conceived as a progressively graduating spiral rising from the mass of the community house to the sculpture of the cross at the tower of the church. Visually both building are separated from the north side but are partially connected thanks to the underground floor from the south side. The building of the community center shall be a three-story building. The design of the church itself is based on the centralization of space and due to progressive gradation to the center of the building, where all the events associated with the Christian year take place. The complex serves both as a place where the widespread society can fulfill their spiritual needs as well as a sanctuary of the Salesian community, where they can fulfill their mission.

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Prokopová, Kateřina. "Architektonická studie sakrálního objektu a komunitního centra Salesiánského Brno - Líšeň / druhá etapa." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-443697.

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The topic of the diploma thesis is the elaboration of the design of a new sacral building in Brno-Líšeň. The church building is complemented by a spiritual center with facilities. The church is to serve not only the contemporary Salesian community, but also to be open to a wider circle of believers. It is a slightly sloping plot in the middle of a panel building between the polyclinic building and the building of the Salesian Youth Center (= Salesko). Salesko is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accompany children and young people on their journey to adulthood and contribute to their physical, mental and spiritual development. The center builds on the preventive pedagogical system of Don Bosco, the founder of the Salesians. The idea is based on the main essence of the Salesians - home, family background, community. The design processes several interconnected operations into one complete unit with a common entrance atrium. The floor plan of the objects imitates the letter U, which means openness to the surrounding world, while also providing a certain background - safety. The buildings are single-storey, only the liturgical space itself, formed by a circular floor plan, forms a dominant dominant with a bell tower. Part of the design is the solution of parking spaces and free outdoor areas. From the urban point of view, emphasis is placed on walking accessibility, at the same time barrier-free access and use of the building is ensured.

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Minárová, Tereza. "Architektonická studie sakrálního objektu Brno - Líšeň." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-414272.

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The subject of this diploma thesis is the design of a study of a sacral object - the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Brno, Líšeň. The church building is complemented by a spiritual center. The construction program is limited to the following: the church building, with its facilities - parking spaces, rehearsal room, flower preparation room, sale of small items with a rest area; main nave of the church, choir, space for children with parents, chapel; background of the sacristy - confessional, parish office, sacristy, depositary. Another part of the building program are the premises of the spiritual center: reception, foundation offices with archives, conference room, Sunday school classroom, multifunctional hall, club room, 3 apartments with a separate chapel. Everything is complemented by technical and hygienic facilities. The design is extended by relaxation areas in the vicinity, which expand the portfolio of civic amenities in the area. The design includes both sacral and profane functions. The spiritual center is therefore of a multifunctional nature and offers stimuli both for the Salesian community and for the local inhabitants of the adjacent settlement. Their meeting center is Kostelní náměstí, which meets in the axes of the two main directions of arrival from Horníkova Street and from the Salesian Youth Center. The foreground with seating and sale of small items serves the general public, which can continue to use the multifunctional hall for concerts, lectures, exhibitions. The premises of the clubhouse, classroom and the Parish Atrium will be used for educational and other activities for children, their parents and grandparents and other social groups. The spiritual center also enables the official activities of the foundation with the possibility of using the surrounding facilities. The center also offers a private part for living within the parish with three 2 room units, reserved parking and storage space. The whole complex will provide

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Duke, Karen Jean. "The spiritually playful community experience of summer youth staff at Sorrento Centre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0019/MQ48824.pdf.

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Oliver, Stephanie. "Writing Her Way to Spiritual Perfection: The Diary of 1751 of Maria de Jesus Felipa." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/309.

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Throughout the colonial period of Mexican history, cloistered nuns wrote spiritual journals at the request of their confessors. These documents were read and scrutinized, not only by the confessors, but also by others in the hierarchy of their Orders. They are important sources of study for historians in that they provide a window into the religious culture of the times and the spiritual mentality of their authors. This thesis will examine one such record, discovered in a collection of volumes at the Historical Franciscan Archive of Michoacán in Celaya, Mexico. The diary covers eleven months of 1751 in the life of a Franciscan nun -- believed to be María de Jesús Felipa who kept such records over a period of more than twenty years. María de Jesús Felipa was a visionary who experienced occasional ecstatic states. Through her contacts with the spiritual world, she pursued her own salvation and that of those most specifically in her charge: members of her own community -- the convent of San Juan de la Penitencia in Mexico City -- and the souls in purgatory. These encounters propelled her into different frames of time and space -- moving her into the past and the future, and transporting her to bucolic and horrific locations. Her diary ascribes meaning to these encounters by tying them to her life and her relationships within the convent. Her diary of 1751 also indicates that this spiritual activity and the records she kept brought her to the attention of the Inquisition. The thesis argues that, because of its cohesiveness of thought and consistency of focus, the diary effectively casts its record keeper as author of her own life story. A close reading reveals the inner thoughts and perceptions of a distinct personality. Her first-person account also reflects the character of Christianity, the impact of post-Tridentine reforms and difficulties in the governance of convents in eighteenth-century New Spain. Although always arduous and often unpleasant, writing provided Sor Maria with an opportunity to establish her integrity, exercise control, and justify her thoughts and actions as she pursued her vocation. Writing under the supervision of a confessor, María de Jesús Felipa was her own person. In its organization and focus, her diary resolutely records a struggle for self-determination within the limits imposed by the monastic vows of obedience, chastity, poverty and enclosure.

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Murphy, Jenna. "Memory recollection through architecture /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Botma, Erasmus Christoffel. "Pastoral guidance for the spiritual development of the adolescents of Little Falls Christian Centre / Erasmus Christoffel Botma." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8573.

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Healthy spiritual development of adolescents is lacking in our society. Research shows that the topic of spiritual development for adolescents has been neglected for some time. It is clear from Scripture that spiritual development needs to take place in the life of a believer and that it is in fact an ongoing process. Even though spirituality has not been classified as something scientific during the modern era, spirituality has made its way back in scientific circles. The scientific disciplines of sociology and psychology have indicated that adolescents have a need for spiritual development and that spiritual issues are important to them. However, adolescents of the twenty-first century also face some unique challenges that have an impact on their spiritual development. Both the quantitative and qualitative methods of research were used and it was clear from both these studies that there were certain areas with regard to spiritual development that needed attention. The results in particular showed that the majority of those adolescents who took part in the research did not spend enough time on spiritual practices and most of them have taken part in some form of risky behaviour. The overall influences from family, friends and youth leaders were positive and in general it seemed that the majority of adolescents who took part in the research had a good relationship with parents and youth leaders. Adolescents need help in their spiritual development and according to Scripture parents and youth/church leaders have the responsibility to assist them. Guidance was given to adolescents and to major role players in their lives to assist them in the process of spiritual development.
Thesis (MA (Pastoral Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013

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Straight, Alyssa. "Mediums and Their Material: The Female Body in Spiritual and Technological Mediation, 1880-1930." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469182526.

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Zhou, Bin. "Raymond Queneau vers la construction du centre spirituel : Raymond Queneau lu à la lumière de René Guénon." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00585273.

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Que Raymond Queneau ait trop lu René Guénon est un fait incontesté. Mais comment relever l'influence de René Guénon sur Raymond Queneau dans la création littéraire de ce dernier. Cela reste depuis toujours un casse-tête. Le but de cette thèse est d'essayer de fournir une réponse possible à cette question. Nous localisons un lien qui existe entre les deux : le centre spirituel. Tout d'abord, nous montrons ce qu'est le centre spirituel chez René Guénon, et particulièrement son idée de l'identification de l'homme à la nature - la non-dualité. De cette non-dualité dérivent les trois règnes ou les trois gunas, d'où provient l'enchaînement des mondes. Cela donne naissance à un univers en circulation spirale, ce qui se traduit dans l'Axe du Monde, lequel, à son tour, se transforme en Arbre du monde, en couple du yin et du yang, en androgynie, en amour, etc.. Tous les symboles équivalents au centre spirituel trouvent leurs élaboration dans de nombreux romans de Raymond Queneau. Nous essayons en même temps d'analyser la circularité narrative utilisée dans des romans de Raymond Queneau, en nous appuyant sur l'Axe du Monde, qui charpente la pensée guénonienne. En ce qui concerne l'analyse de la poésie de Raymond Queneau, nous nous basons aussi sur l'Axe du Monde et ses termes dérivées - l'Homme Universel, la Grande Paix, la navigation, etc.. Enfin, nous essayons aussi d'aborder l'imprégnation de la pensée de René Guénon dans l'ensemble de la création littéraire de Raymond Queneau - la métamorphose, la circularité narrative, le rêve, la Grande Chaîne des êtres (l'Axe du Monde), etc...

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Yu, Franklin, and 余烽立. "Taoist retreat." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982803.

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Rashid, M. Ali, and E. Wardle. "The Haven." Channel 4, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3678.

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The programmes follow the experiences of people living in or visiting the community. They range from a school leaver who feels she is learning more at Findhorn than she would at university to an Indian guru who offers himself as the community's new leader and wants to build a temple in the garden. A poignant backdrop to the series is the growing frailty of one of Findhorn¿s founders, 87-year-old Eileen Caddy, and the preparations, both practical and psychological, that community members are making for her death.

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Perry, Shirley Mercedes. "Selected Psalms, Old Verses and Spiritual Songs of the Canadian Doukhobors: Transcription and musical analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185897.

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The purpose of this research was to select songs specific to the Doukhobor song repertoire which were not previously notated and to record, notate and analyze the melodies for use in music education. The first limitation of the study was to focus on the sacred repertoire which is comprised of three genre of song, namely the Psalms, the Old Verses and the Spiritual Songs. A comparison of the song titles of Old Verses and Spiritual Songs which are found in the two major Canadian Doukhobor song text collections was made with other Russian song text collections to determine a subset of songs unique to the Doukhobor tradition. The second limitation of the study was then applied, which was to select those Old Verses and Spiritual Songs believed to exist prior to the beginning of the twentieth century. Forty-five melodies, comprised of 11 Psalms, 18 Old Verses and 16 Spiritual Songs were included in the study. The notation of each example is accompanied by one verse of Russian text and transliteration and by documentary information stating the genre, the Doukhobor song text collection reference number, the singers' names, and a tape source in the researcher's private collection. Full and/or partial translations of the texts are provided.

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Aalders, Cynthia Yvonne. "Writing religious communities : the spiritual lives and manuscript cultures of English women, 1740-90." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:786913a8-64a6-48ef-bce4-266b6fa70ff3.

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This thesis examines the spiritual lives of eighteenth-century English women through an analysis of their personal writings. It explores the manuscripts of religious women who practised their faith by writing letters, diaries, poetry, and other highly personal texts—texts that give unique access to the interior, spiritual lives of their authors. Concerned not only with the individual meaning of those writings but with their communal meanings, it argues that women’s informal writing, written within personal relationships, acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities in vital and unexplored ways. Through an exploration of various significant personal relationships, both intra- and inter-generationally, this thesis demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in ‘writing religious communities’. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. A series of interweaving case studies guide my analysis and discussion. The thesis focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721–70), Anne Steele (1717–78), and Ann Bolton (1743–1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele Baptist, and Bolton Methodist. After an introductory chapter, Chapter Two focuses on spiritual friendship, showing how women used personal writings within peer relationships to think through religious ideas and encourage faith commitments. Chapter Three considers older women as spiritual elders, arguing that elderly women sometimes achieved honoured status in religious communities and were turned to for spiritual direction. Chapter Four explores the ways in which women offered religious instruction to spiritual children through the creative use of informal writings, including diaries and poetry. And Chapter Five considers women’s personal writings as spiritual legacy, as they were preserved by family and friends and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors.

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Chan, Kin-kwok Stephen, and 陳建國. "In Search of "nothingness"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198504X.

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Clement, Claire Kathleen. "Processing piety and the materiality of spiritual mission at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269847.

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This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a wealthy Brigittine double monastery in late medieval England. As an institution it was, paradoxically, directed primarily toward an evangelical goal, while being focused on contemplative women who were strictly enclosed. In this dissertation, I assert that this apparent contradiction was resolved through a high degree of collaboration between the abbey’s religious women and men. I argue that Brigittine monasticism, and that of Syon in particular, was uniquely attuned to metaphors and meanings of materiality, which enabled the abbey to transform the women’s mundane material life of food, clothing, architecture, work, finance, and even bureaucracy, into spiritual fruits to be shared with the Syon brethren through dialogue within confessional relationships, and subsequently, with the laity through the media of sermons, sacraments, books, and conversation. I use the abbey’s extensive household financial accounts in conjunction with Brigittine writings and monastic legislative documents to examine the intersection of ideal material life and its spiritual meaning on the one hand, and the abbey’s lived materiality as reflected in its internal economic and administrative actions, on the other. The central question is the degree to which Syon’s material life was one of luxury in keeping with what the Order’s founder, Saint Birgitta, would have seen as worldly excess, or one of moderate asceticism, in keeping with the Brigittine Rule. Major findings are that in most respects (financial management, gender power, officer appointments, clothing, and some aspects of food), Syon’s materiality was lived in accordance with the Rule and the Brigittine mission, but that in some respects, it erred on the side of elite display and consumption (the majority of food items and the architecture and decoration of the abbey church), and in others, the source material is too incomplete to enable conclusions (the decoration of monastic buildings and the distribution of alms). In addition, by analysing the income from boarding of visitors and offerings from pilgrims, I examine the degree of Syon’s impact on the laity and how it changed with the approaching Dissolution, concluding that the abbey had a significant impact that declined only when legal restrictions were applied.

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Schlarb, Damien Brian. "Melville's Quest for Certainty: Questing and Spiritual Stability in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/17.

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This paper investigates Herman Melville’s quest for spiritual stability and certainty in his novel Moby-Dick. The analysis establishes a philosophical tradition of doubt towards the Bible, outlining the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes, Benedict de Spinoza, David Hume, Thomas Paine and John Henry Newman. This historical survey of spiritual uncertainty establishes the issue of uncertainty that Melville writes about in the nineteenth century. Having assessed the issue of doubt, I then analyze Melville’s use of metaphorical charts, which his characters use to resolve this issue. Finally, I present Melville’s philosophical findings as he expresses them through the metaphor of whaling. Here, I also scrutinize Melville’s depiction of nature, as well as his presentation of the dichotomy between contemplative and active questing, as represented by the characters Ishmael and Ahab.

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Diallo, Mamadou Diang. "Black Music, Racial Identity, and Black Consciousness in the Spirituals and the Blues." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216563.

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African American Music has always served to document the history of enslaved Africans in America. It takes its roots in African Spirituality and originally pervades all aspects of African life. That Music has been transformed as soon as it got on this side of the Atlantic Ocean in a context of slavery and oppression. As historical documents, African American Music has served African Americans to deal with their experience in America from slavery to freedom. This work studies how Black Spirituals and the Blues have played a tremendous role in building an African American identity and in raising race consciousness in an oppressed people in a perpetual quest for freedom and equal rights in America.
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Toucas-Bouteau, Michèle. "Le monastère Saint Cyrille du Lac Blanc, centre spirituel, économique, culturel et social de la fin du XIVème siècle au début du XVIème." Bordeaux 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995BOR30053.

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Alors que l'etat moscovite achevait sa lente ascension, cyrille, moine issu du milieu boiar, age de 60 ans, quitta en 1397 le celebre monastere simonov de moscou pour aller fonder sa propre communaute a quelque six cents kilometres de la, pres du lac blanc. Ayant dote son monastere d'une regle cenobitique stricte, il proceda a un certain nombre d'acquisitions de terres pour assurer la prosperite de la communaute, et encouragea vivement la copie de livres et la curiosite pour les textes religieux et profanes. Esprit erudit, critique et independant avec un sens pratique qui temoigne de son interet pour le monde, il sut creer une tradition qui se perpetua apres lui. Apres sa mort, la communaute continua a se developper et a beneficier des faveurs des princes. Theatre du dernier episode des luttes intestines sous vasilij ii, puis enjeu politique sous ivan iii dans les affrontements entre pouvoir et eglise, pouvoir central et pouvoir local, le monastere de cyrille garda un role de premier plan tout au long du xveme siecle. Les actes cites montrent qu'il connut une periode d'expansion, avec une augmentation de l'avoir foncier, des privileges et echanges commerciaux, puis une periode de stagnation, liee aux idees des opposants a la propriete ecclesiastique et a la conjoncture economique. Procedures de bornages et proces se multiplient alors, refletant le mecontentement des paysans qui commencent a perdre leur liberte. Malgre les differences dans la gestion du monastere, ou suscites par elles, subsistent toujours au sein de la communaute un esprit d'independance et un interet general pour les affaires de l'eglise et du pays, qui se traduisent par un debat permanent d'idees et par une intense activite des copistes, tels qu'efrosin, gurij tusin et vassian patrikeev, disciple de nil de la sora, issu lui-meme du monastere de cyrille du lac blanc
As muscovy was yet in the ascendant as a state, the 60 year-old monk kiril, who was born in a boyar environment, left the famous muscovite simonov monastery in 1397. He travelled some 300 miles in order to set up his own community near the beloozero lake. Having given his monastery a strict cenobitic rule, he proceeded to secure enough land to ensure the community's prosperity. He then greatly encouraged the copying of both religious and profane texts, the wide range of which shows his versatile interest in wordly life as well as his keen critical and learned mind. After kiril's death, the community kept growing, still benefiting from the princes'favour, and maintained the copying tradition. St kiril's monastery played an important political role throughout the xvth c. . It was the theatre for the last episode of the "infighting" under vasilij ii, then it was the stake in power struggles between the muscovite princes and the church, or the local princes. The charters(translated in this study) show that after a time of growth of its possessions, princely privileges and commercial activity, the monastery went through a period of stagnation, owing to the ideas of "non-possessor" abbots and to the economic situation. Moreover, landmarking procedures and trials increased, indicating a growing anger among the peasants whose freedom was being jeopardized. In spite, or indeed because of unstable management of the monastery, a spirit of independance and a curiosity for church and state affairs remained alive in the community, arousing a never ending debate and stimulating the activity of the scribes, among whom were efrosin, gurij tusin, and vassian patrikeev, a follower of nil sorskij who himself came from the kiril of beloozero monastery

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Grondin, Christian. "« CE NE SONT PAS LA CHAIR ET LE SANG... » Les conditions bibliques de l'élaboration de l'élection dans la pratique des Exercices spirituels d'Ignace de Loyola." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29720/29720.pdf.

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Wong, Yuk-yeung, and 黃旭洋. "Buddhist retreat at Tei Tong Tsai." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31986195.

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Gorsedene, Christa. "A heuristic and HSSI exploration of experiencing interplay between spiritual guidance and synchronicity within person-centred encounters." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-heuristic-and-hssi-exploration-of-experiencing-interplay-between-spiritual-guidance-and-synchronicity-within-personcentred-encounters(3a4e4301-d034-4d71-8b40-5f4b8b5779c8).html.

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This research has been a study in amazement. Initially an agnostic physics graduate, the researcher undertook training in the person-centred approach (pca) to self-development and counselling, during which she came to experience strange personal experiences which she could neither gainsay nor fit into her then worldview. Sketching these briefly, exceptional human experiences (EHEs) and synchronicities increasingly happened until (shockingly) they declared a seeming spirit guide (Mungo) to her, also juxtaposed in time with her first-ever chance encounter with dowsing. Thereafter these phenomena, combined with randomisable image-cards, tutored her into a physically observable method of 'discussion' with them (alone or with another) conducted with pca values. This PhD involved researching that phenomenon-complex through 'discussions' with 35 participants. The methodology used was heuristics and its heuristic self-search inquiry specialism (HSSI) whose attention to personal experiencing, indwelling to contact tacit knowledge, and incubatory rest phases to foster illuminatory new 'ahaa!' apprehensions suited this nascent mysterious subject. Both participants and researcher experienced coincidences weaving the 'discussions' and their wider lives together. Thus synchronicity became equal-partner research-topic, being studied as it occurred and, through affecting certain choices, becoming part of the methodology itself. The phenomenon-complex was experienced as fostering ethical living, creativity, personal development and science-spirituality interconnection in ways wellpitched and paced for each experiencer. The phenomena were also experienced as synergizing with each other, and as fostering integration within and between persons. After work on the participant sessions was completed, the writings of further thesis chapters were 'butted into' by in-the-moment relevant synchronicities, not just singly but in flows and patterns in which the researcher found herself discerning overarching meanings. Given this exceptional opportunity the researcher (in effect doing a bonus research-section) tracked her experiencing of these synchronistic flows and her responses thereto wherever they led, using Sela-Smith's first-person heuristic self-search inquiry (HSSI) methodology. Each synchronistically-influenced chapter was experienced as exploring certain themes, with themes building as the thesis progressed. Heuristics and HSSI are usually transformative. This researcher was transformed from the ground up from agnosticism to credence in 'something more' through her experiencings (both alone and inter-relationally with participants). Their 'package deal' presented personal shadow-work alongside help in life difficulties, and great fascination but darker times too. In total she came to feel part of an interconnected, spiritually-intelligent and compassionate cosmic domain, and existentially happier.

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Jeffrey, Kenneth S. "The 1858-62 revival in the North East of Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1862.

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The 1859 revival is the most significant spiritual awakening that has affected Scotland in modern times, but it has remained little examined by scholars. This thesis aims to highlight the importance of this religious phenomenon and to analyse it in a critical manner. In the first instance, it considers the three principal traditions of revival that have evolved since the seventeenth century so that the 1859 movement can be located within this history. It also examines the various theories that have arisen during the last fifty years which have sought to explain how and why these movements have appeared at certain times and in particular contexts. It is significant that, unlike previous studies which have explored the revival from either a narrow local or broad national perspective, this thesis considers the awakening on a regional basis, covering the north east of Scotland. It analyses the manner and expression of the revival as it arose in the city of Aberdeen, in the rural hinterland of north east Scotland, and among the fishing communities along the Moray Firth. In addition, by using data from church records and the 1861 census, it determines the composition of the people who were affected by the movement in each of these three separate situations. Furthermore it investigates the factors which explain the relative failure of the revival to affect the fishing town of Peterhead. Accordingly the thesis demonstrates that the 1859 revival was not a single, uniform religious movement. On the contrary, it establishes that local factors, which include the theological and social nature of a particular context, exercised a powerful effect upon the character of this 'season of grace.

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Odaysky, Myriam. "Vasilij Grigorovic-Barskij et les lieux saints ( 1701-1747) : un sujet russe entre itinéraire spirituel et quête du savoir." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040023.

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Vasilij Grigorovič-Barskij est un voyageur parti de Kiev en 1723 à l’âge de vingt-deux ans dans le but initial de se soigner et parfaire son éducation à L’viv (Ukraine). Répondant à l’appel de la route, il parcourt sans ressources, seul et à pied, pendant près d’un quart de siècle, les pays bordant la Méditerranée, depuis l’Italie jusqu’à l’Egypte en passant par la Grêce et ses îles, la Syrie et le Liban, la Terre Sainte et Constantinople. Notre étude est consacrée au séjour de Barskij dans les pays du Proche Orient. Nous tâchons tout d’abord de replacer l’œuvre de Vasilij Barskij dans la tradition des récits de pèlerinages slaves en Orient, appelés xoždenija, et initiée par Daniel de Černigov, dont notre pèlerin est le digne héritier. Pourtant Barskij est aussi marqué par son époque : désireux de s’instruire afin de rapporter un savoir dans sa patrie, il se montre d’une curiosité encyclopédique et notamment doué pour les langues. Enfin, nous nous penchons sur l’aspect humain de l’aventure de Vasilij Barskij, qui évolue vers une meilleure connaissance des hommes et de lui-même, jusqu’au plein accomplissement de sa vocation de moine érudit. La traduction en français du périple de Barskij en Orient rend accessible aux francophones l’œuvre originale de ce voyageur entre tradition et modernité
Vasilij Grigorovič-Barskij was a voyager who left Kiev in 1723 at the age of twenty-two with the initial goals of seeking a cure for himself and of pursuing his education at L'viv. Heeding the call of the road, without provisions, alone and on foot, he took almost a quarter century to traverse the countries on the shores of the Mediterranean from Italy to Egypt, passing through Greece and its islands, Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land and Constantinople. Our study is dedicated to Barskij's sojourns in the countries of the near east. First, we will endeavour to place the work of Vasilij Barkij in the context of the tradition of accounts of slavic pilgrimages in the East. These were termed xoždenija and first undertaken by Daniel of Černigov, of whom our pilgrim, Vasilij is the worthy heir. However, Barskij was also affected by his times: desirous of improving his knowledge so that he could bring back learning to his country, he demonstrated an encyclopaedic curiosity with a particular gift for languages. Finally, we turn our attention towards the human aspect of Vasilij Barskij's adventure which enabled him to develop a better understanding of humankind and of himself, leading to the full flourishing of his vocation as a scholarly monk. The translation of Barskij's travels in the Orient into French makes the original works of this traveller between traditional and modern worlds accessible to all francophones

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Marchand, Bertrand. "L'accompagnement spirituel dans l'action sociale : enquête menée au sein d'associations protestantes intervenant auprès de personnes en situation d'exclusion." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAK004/document.

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Cette thèse en théologie pratique s’intéresse à la prise en compte de la dimension spirituelle des personnes en situation d’exclusion, accueillies par les associations protestantes d’action sociale. Le travail a été conduit sous la forme d’une enquête par entretiens, sur le terrain d’intervention d’une trentaine d’associations en France métropolitaine. Il propose un modèle d’accompagnement spirituel aconfessionnel, adapté au champ de l’action sociale, centré sur la personne en précarité, et mené par une équipe d’accompagnants. Cet accompagnement aconfessionnel garde toute sa pertinence au sein d’une association protestante,en tant que vocation de l’Église à être « aux côtés » des personnes en précarité. Il s’écarte de la poïménique traditionnelle, et se distingue de l’aide sociale. Le modèle propose des voies de facilitation pour l’émergence de la spiritualité des personnes en précarité, et aborde la question de la formation des accompagnants spirituels
This thesis in pratical theology considers the spiritual dimension of socially-excluded personswho benefit from protestant associations engaged in social action. The research isbased on interviews conducted among about thirty associations in metropolitan France. Itproposes a person-centered, non-confessionnal model of spiritual care adapted to the fieldof social action, and led by a team of caregivers. This non-confessionnal support is particularlyrelevant within protestant associations, considering the vocation of the Church tostand ‘alongside’ people in their vulnerability. It departs from traditional pastoral counselingand from social assistance. The model provides ways of facilitating the emergenceof a spirituality among people in situations of social exclusion, and tackles the training ofspiritual caregivers

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