“Closer to God”: Meanings of Reading in Recent Conversion Narratives within Christianity and Islam

Vamanu, Iulian; Guzik, Elysia

doi:10.1080/10477845.2015.1085784

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“…Freeburg (2018) looks at how Christians' beliefs are open to external information, Gorichanaz (2016) at the effects of technology and format on the experience of reading the Bible, and Siracky (2013) on spiritual journal-keeping among Catholic young adults. Vamanu and Guzik (2015) studied converts to Christianity and Islam, delineating three modes of engagement with religious texts for their role in conversion, informative, formative, and transformative. Interestingly, these modes align with the upper strata of the DIKUW pyramid and support our argument for a holistic IS: reading that is informative refers to information acquisition (i.e.…”

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Information and contemplation: a call for reflection and action

Latham

Hartel

Gorichanaz

2020

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PurposeAmericans increasingly feel a sense of wonder at the universe; meditation and yoga are on the rise; and a field known as Contemplative Studies has emerged. These indicators, among others, suggest a groundswell of interest in contemplative practice and contemplative experience and raise intriguing questions for information and Information Studies. Against this backdrop, this paper asks: How might Information Studies contribute to these developments? What is the relationship between information and contemplation? What can be explored on this research frontier?Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual paper is based upon a synthesis of recent writings from the field of Contemplative Studies as well as conceptual analysis of selected papers and themes in Information Studies. It draws from discussion that occurred at a Session for Interaction and Engagement at the 2018 iConference, entitled “Contemplating Information in the Pleasurable and the Profound” (Latham et al., 2018). The authors' creative thinking and personal contemplative practices also infuse and fortify the work.FindingsPopular and academic contemplative movements are afoot, and Information Studies has an opportunity to participate or be left behind. The field of Contemplative Studies has established the foundational concepts that can serve as contextual material for information research into contemplation. Upon closer inspection, Information Studies has already broached the topic of contemplation at various points in its history, theory, institutional practices, and information behavior research. The conceptual points of departure for a research frontier are articulated.Originality/valueBeyond data, information, and knowledge are deeper and more profound aims, such as wisdom, which is related to contemplation. This paper supplies a rationale, scholarly community, conceptual resources, historical precedents, and guiding questions for bridging information and contemplation.

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Section: Part 2: the Crossroads Of Information And Contemplationmentioning

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Information and contemplation: a call for reflection and action

Latham

Hartel

Gorichanaz

2020

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“…For example, explorations of affect and embodiment are expanding our understanding of people's information experiences as well as the very nature and character of information and information institutions. Recent work in this direction includes examinations of pleasure (Fulton 2009;Kari and Hartel 2007), fun (Ocepek et al 2018), happiness (Tinto and Ruthven 2016), hospitality (Cooke 2019), spirituality (Kari 2007), religious experience (Chabot 2019;Gorichanaz 2016;Vamanu and Guzik 2015), and, as this special issue highlights, joy (Hartel and Siracky 2020).…”

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Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies

Greenshields¹,

Polkinghorne²

2022

Library Trends

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Library and information studies (LIS) has yet to see an exploration of the workings of love, as a force that both explicitly and implicitly underpins practices and rhetoric within our discipline. Understanding the "force" that is love requires analysis of social, and collective, relations. This paper draws on selected literature in order to present such an exploration for the first time. As this paper illustrates, love provides a distinctive, feminist lens onto structures and power dynamics. It can illuminate, and create opportunities to address, divergent challenges within LIS and the world at large.

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Experiencing the Bible

Gorichanaz

2016

Journal of Religious & Theological Information

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“Closer to God”: Meanings of Reading in Recent Conversion Narratives within Christianity and Islam

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Information and contemplation: a call for reflection and action

Information and contemplation: a call for reflection and action

Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies

Experiencing the Bible

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