Essays about: "Spiritual experience"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words Spiritual experience.

  1. 1. How individuals engaged in social work in Bali perceive their room for action when working with jandas : A qualitative study on social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali

    University essay from Marie Cederschiöld högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskap

    Author : Camilla Johansson; Elin Rosenblad; [2023]
    Keywords : Janda; Bali; Social Work; Room For Action; Empowerment; Patrilineal; Patriarchal; Law; Culture;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals engaged in social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali perceive their room for action. Our participants' clients are widows, divorced women, unmarried women, or women with children born out of wedlock. In our thesis, we refer to these women as jandas. READ MORE

  3. 2. "Sound and Vision": Thomas Pynchon, Perception, and Transcendence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Viktor Ferdinand Kovács; [2023]
    Keywords : Perception; transcendence; auditory self; phenomenology; modalities of experience; perceptual mode; imaginative mode; Thomas Pynchon; Gravity s Rainbow; The Crying of Lot 49; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Previous studies of Thomas Pynchon’s works have made progress in defining numerous aspects of what could be construed as the Pynchonian worldview. However, they have mainly identified them in general, visual terms, separated from the level of the direct experience of his characters. READ MORE

  4. 3. AN EXPERIENCE BEYOND WORDS : Numinous vs Awe – a shared phenomenon 100 years apart?

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Sara Granström Powiecki; [2023]
    Keywords : The Numinous; Mysterium Tremendum; Self-Transcendent Emotions; Awe; Default-self; Spirituality; Psychology of Religion;

    Abstract : Awe, an emerging topic within the field of modern psychology, has shown to have many benefits, including improved health for mind and body. This essay is trying to explore what links there are between the spiritual concept of the numinous established by the religious scholar Rudolf Otto and the definition of awe put forward by one of the most prominent and influential researchers in the field of Self-Transcendent Emotions, Dacher Keltner. READ MORE

  5. 4. Future Imaginaries of Negative Emission Technologies and Folklore Myths in Icelandic Basalt: Provisional Order Emerges from the Possible Magma in the Age of ‘Hauntology’ and Broken Time

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

    Author : Rikke Jespersen; [2023]
    Keywords : NETs; Desire; Green Capitalism; Imaginaries; Storytelling; Pluriverse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Why do we in the Western part of world today tend to believe in technology’s mythical promises rather than in folklore myths? Imaginaries of the future influence political subjects’ actions in the present and play a key role in composing the trajectory towards the future. I have critically applied this notion to the implementation of negative emission technologies in the climate-neutrality strategy. READ MORE

  6. 5. First blood: Menarche as the foundation for women's self-realisation

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Elena Iacovou; [2023]
    Keywords : Parthenogenesis; goddess-worshipping; religion; religious studies; rites of passage; liminality; existential health.;

    Abstract : Goddess-based civilisations worshipped the divine as a parthenogentic primordial creative force. Parthenogensis a Greek word that derives from parthenos “virgin” and genesis “from the beginning” was the path of liberation or rebirth into one’s divine nature. READ MORE