Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2136436
E. Beltramini
ABSTRACT Raimon Panikkar was a Spanish theologian with Indian roots whose reflections on monasticism were at once creative and inspiring. He aimed to renew the monastic tradition not in the sense of restoration but rather aggiornamento, namely, bringing it up to date. His scholarly considerations were matched with a personal tendency toward solitude, although seen as a complement to rather than a priority in an integrated life. This article is primarily a study of Panikkar’s engagement with monasticism as a positive resource for spirituality but also as an avoidance of accountability. While reviewing both Panikkar’s intellectual constructions and personal aspirations, reframed within the concept of ‘cosmic monasticism,’ I identify their main characters and limits. Among the former, I consider the assumption that the human spirit is naturally oriented toward grace; regarding the latter, I mention the omissions of the role of grace and of rules in spiritual development associated with ‘new monasticism’.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1079/9781789249392.0000
B. Flanagan
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2040158
L. Zsolnai
ABSTRACT This article describes the background to, and focus of, a new and extensive research program being undertaken at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Entitled the Economy and Religion Program, it aims to explore and study the multiple roles that religion and spirituality play in the functioning of the economy. It focuses on the contemporary issues of capitalism in relation to ethics and morality; ecology and sustainability; and social inequality and cultural diversity. It is intended to foster a spirit of open dialogue that seeks collaboration across disciplines, cultures and faith traditions.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2048350
Kathryn Wright
ABSTRACT This article is based on work undertaken by Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, a charitable organisation in the UK which is committed to the development of ‘a broad-based, critical and reflective education in religion and worldviews contributing to a well-informed, respectful and open society.’ The article highlights the results of a survey by the Trust in June 2021 which aimed to establish a baseline regarding the public perception of religious education (RE) in schools, and wider views around religious-, spirituality-, belief- and worldview-literacy. The Trust plans to use this baseline to measure the impact of interventions and campaigns through its own programmes and grant-funded projects over the coming years. Previous surveys have suggested that the UK population has negative perceptions of religious education; however, these new results indicate that the majority of those surveyed have a positive view of the subject and value the importance of religious and belief literacy in a range of contexts. The article sets out the key findings of the survey; it also includes some personal reflections and analysis, as well as reference to media engagement. Alignment of the results with pupil perspectives is considered, and finally conclusions are drawn about potential next steps and use of the findings in programme and policy development.
摘要本文基于英国慈善组织Culham St Gabriel’s Trust开展的工作，该组织致力于发展“一种基础广泛、批判性和反思性的宗教和世界观教育，为建立一个知情、尊重和开放的社会做出贡献。”这篇文章强调了信托基金会2021年6月的一项调查结果，该调查旨在建立一个关于公众对学校宗教教育的看法的基线，以及关于宗教、精神、信仰和世界观素养的更广泛观点。信托基金计划在未来几年通过自己的方案和赠款资助的项目，利用这一基线来衡量干预措施和运动的影响。此前的调查表明，英国民众对宗教教育持负面看法；然而，这些新的结果表明，大多数受访者对这一主题持积极看法，并在各种背景下重视宗教和信仰素养的重要性。文章阐述了调查的主要结果；它还包括一些个人的反思和分析，以及对媒体参与的参考。考虑了结果与学生观点的一致性，最后得出了关于潜在的下一步行动以及在计划和政策制定中使用调查结果的结论。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2037188
P. Daughtry, Kirsten Macaitis, Tick Zweck
ABSTRACT This article offers findings from a small study of staff and student experiences in a tertiary educational context at Tabor Institute of Higher Education, South Australia. Participants were invited to complete three curated labyrinth walk and reflection activities over a period of three months as an extra-curricular opportunity for experiential spiritual practice. Analysis of the rich narrative data from participants’ experiences reveals the potential of the labyrinth ritual to enable transformative insights of significant depth and meaning to individuals. Three of the themes which emerged from the data are presented in this article. The first relates to a heightened sense of the dissolution of individual identity into a greater sense of connectivity or fusion with, and to, elements of nature, such as rock, water, and sand. The second speaks of deep emotional connection and processing of a pivotal, personal historical turn in spiritual awareness. The third relates to a movement into unusual peace, a sense of the living and fluid nature of time and space, and the agency of ritual practice as active and something that is ‘at work in the person’ rather than passive, with the person doing the work of the ritual. The researchers were struck by two phenomena in the process. Firstly, the poignant efficacy of non-didactic ritual for spiritual education and growth. Secondly, the interactive and dynamic relationship between the desire of the participants for deep experience, the actual practice of the labyrinth walk, and the importance of mindfulness and context-sensitive curation of the events.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2038416
Peter Kevern
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2062823
P. Hannam
ABSTRACT This article provides a description and brief explanation of the theory underpinning a piece of recently published religious education policy in England. It also offers some thoughts regarding the potential contribution to children’s and young people’s spirituality.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2048351
J. M. Arnado, Mikael Alfianus M. Kabelen, Roxanne O. Doron
ABSTRACT Amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken lives, devastated economies, and restricted in-person sociality, this paper interrogates spirituality as capital and accomplishment in the everyday life of ordinary Filipinos. It characterizes spirituality in general and in the pandemic context and examines its effects. It employs social capital theories and ethnomethodology to characterize spirituality as an accomplishment in everyday life with investments and returns. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with Filipino Muslims and Christians. Findings show that spirituality is accomplished through a daily life of prayer, self-transformation, and good works in new technological formats and a socially distanced manner. Constant prayer as a medium for transcendental connection is the investment and self-conversion and good works are the expressive and instrumental returns, which are desirable resources for individuals and the social structure. The findings have implications for the resilience against crises of a spiritually inclined population. The paper contributes to existing conceptualizations and accounting of spirituality within the context of religion and as social capital.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2048349
Julian Stern
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2022.2042948
Snežana Brumec
ABSTRACT While it is widely known that pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago changes people, there is limited research exploring the transformative aftereffects of the experience. The purpose of this article is to contribute to filling this research gap by comparing life changes in beliefs, philosophy and behavior to life changes after three different kinds of exceptional human experiences (EHEs) from methodologically similar studies. Life changes after the pilgrimage experience are compared with life changes after unitive/mystical experiences (U/MEs), combat near-death experiences (cNDEs), and hypnotically-induced death experiences (HDEs). To measure life changes reported by pilgrims who had traveled the Camino de Santiago, an online survey (n = 630) was conducted using the established instrument for assessing aftereffects of the EHE, the ‘Life Changes Inventory-Revised’ (LCI-R). Findings suggest that pilgrimage experience may be comparable in aftereffects to other types of EHEs. In all four comparative studies, the most striking changes involve an increase in appreciation for life; a heightened quest for meaning and sense of purpose; more concern for others; greater self-acceptance; as well as a deeper sense of spirituality. Also, all four yielded a decrease in concern with worldly achievement. In the present study this decrease tends to be strongly associated with an increase in spirituality but not religiousness.
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