Essays about: "spirituality"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 75 essays containing the word spirituality.

1. 16. LGBTQIA+ Voices from the Christian Church : A small intersectional interview study on LGBTQIA+ experiences within the Catholic and Protestant church in contemporary Germany

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Johanna Rostek; [2022]
   Keywords : LGBTQIA Christians; Feminist Standpoint Theory; Queer Theory; Empirical Research; Gender; and Intersectional Research;

   Abstract : The study starts with a historical overview of the notion of gender and sexual identity and belonging in the German Christian church as seen from a queer and intersectional gender studies perspective. The following study moves to explore three individual experiences and encounters with the Christian church. READ MORE

3. 17. Decolonial Resistance in Agriculture: The Role of Spirituality in the Work of Food Sovereignty Organizations in Mexico

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Milena Garbers; [2021]
   Keywords : food sovereignty; decolonial knowledges; spirituality; Indigenous knowledges; resistance; Mexico; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Recent decades have exposed the crisis inherent in the globalized agriculture system characterized by nature commodification, trade liberalization, corporatization and environmental destruction. The crisis is driven by a colonial and neoliberal-capitalist ideology grounded in the supposed universality of western knowledge. READ MORE

4. 18. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Mariette Frieda Anita Minnemann; [2021]
   Keywords : al-Ghazali marriage asceticism Medieval theology history of religion Islamic theology Soteriology cosmogony eschatology embodiment Sufism Sufi tasawwuf spiritual corporeality mysticism Ibn Arabi Islamic mysticism jihad body Ihya kitab nikah intercourse sex celibacy embodied resurrection din Medieval Islamic studies religious studies; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE

5. 19. “Their sense of wonder was the same as mine." : Outdoor Educators’ Spiritual Experiences in Wilderness.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Pedagogik och didaktik

   Author : Pascal Rosenthal; [2021]
   Keywords : outdoor education; wilderness; wild nature; spirituality; awe-inspiring experiences; sustainability; Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; IPA;

   Abstract : This study investigates outdoor educators’ spiritual experiences in wilderness from a retrospective point of view. The aim is to understand their meaning-making and the role of such experiences in their life and career as well as to draw out possible implications for outdoor education (OE) with special regards to a sustainable future of our planet. READ MORE

6. 20. DRÖMDAGEN

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Industridesign

   Author : Alexander Ekholm; [2021]
   Keywords : Arts and Architecture; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Humans are irrational. What happens when you disregard this fact? When we let only logic and reason be acceptable ways of life? Science is the reason behind most of our advances as a human race, and with this, it has pushed aside spirituality and, on a certain level, the room for fantasy and thought. READ MORE