Living in an Age of Comfort: Understanding Religion in the Twenty-first Century

Melleuish, Gregory C

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“…A vast majority of the literature reviewed about comfort and feeling comfortable illuminated the contextual and capricious nature of the phenomenon (Breivik et al, 2008; Melleuish, 2014; Ries, 2002; Rowntree, 2014; Wilson & Kolcaba, 2004). In particular, the religious, psychological, and sociological literature described the changing views of comfort, where it once was perceived as a gift, is now an expectation within everyday living (Melleuish, 2014). The literature also showed that expectations are creating a change from the familiar ways of believing, valuing, and living within global and everyday worlds (Melleuish, 2014; Ries, 2002) to a focus on the paradoxical in nature: giving-receiving, expected-unexpected, revealing-concealing, comforting-suffering (Melleuish, 2014).…”

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“…In particular, the religious, psychological, and sociological literature described the changing views of comfort, where it once was perceived as a gift, is now an expectation within everyday living (Melleuish, 2014). The literature also showed that expectations are creating a change from the familiar ways of believing, valuing, and living within global and everyday worlds (Melleuish, 2014; Ries, 2002) to a focus on the paradoxical in nature: giving-receiving, expected-unexpected, revealing-concealing, comforting-suffering (Melleuish, 2014). The literature also revealed comfort as complex, as a noun (an outcome) to be achieved, as a verb with the process of achieving it (Fransson et al, 2007; Lorenzi, 2014) and as an adjective (Pinto et al, 2016).…”

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“…As a verb, to comfort means to ease grief or trouble or to give strength and hope during a time of perceived distress or need (“Comfort,” n.d.). Comfort is an experience that is widely discussed in the literature of various disciplines (Caffaro, Micheletti Cremasco, Preti, & Cavallo, 2016; Escudero, Vina, & Calleja, 2014; Lorenzi, 2014) and appears to be an expectation in current global society (Melleuish, 2014). Comfort, an integral part of caring and practice in healthcare, is also seen as a passive circumstance that requires assistance from another (Kolcaba, 2003; Morse, 2000); paired with its opposite, discomfort , in a definition (Morse, Bottorff, & Hutchinson, 1995); and often reduced to pain management (Breivik et al, 2008).…”

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Feeling Comfortable

Dobrzykowski

2016

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Recently customer decision make purchasing of factor is changing from the product function or service to emotional benefit in the commodity market. The purpose of this paper is to reveal a comfortable feeling when customer use the deodorizer. We would like to have difference of expression towards using each of products and discover a business chance in the segmentation market. We used to research device by mobile phone for purpose with a moment at comfortable. We analyzed to reveal sub-consciousness using by projection method in psychology. We take consumer goods 12 as an object of study. Research target group is from 20age to 49age and number of subject is 2,160. As a result, in deodorizer needs of directionality structure is composed of 4 words. We succeeded in building the comfortable map by the correspondence analysis.

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Dobrzykowski

2016

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“…In the United States, the percentage of religious "nones"-the non-affiliated-had risen to close to 20% in 2012, and 46% of the overall population "seldom or never attend religious services" [152][153][154][155][156][157]. Across the pond, the 2009 British Attitudes Survey for the first time recorded more "No Religion" (50.9%) than "Christian" (43.1%) respondents; and according to a 2011 YouGov poll, only 34% of UK citizens claimed they believed in a God or gods.…”

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Recovery Spirituality

Kurtz

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2015

Religions

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Abstract:There is growing interest in Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and other secular, spiritual, and religious frameworks of long-term addiction recovery. The present paper explores the varieties of spiritual experience within A.A., with particular reference to the growth of a wing of recovery spirituality promoted within A.A. It is suggested that the essence of secular spirituality is reflected in the experience of beyond (horizontal and vertical transcendence) and between (connection and mutuality) and in six facets of spirituality (Release, Gratitude, Humility, Tolerance, Forgiveness, and a Sense of Being-at-home) shared across religious, spiritual, and secular pathways of addiction recovery. The growing varieties of A.A. spirituality (spanning the "Christianizers" and "Seculizers") reflect A.A.'s adaptation to the larger diversification of religious experience and the growing secularization of spirituality across the cultural contexts within which A.A. is nested.

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Democracy, Liberalism and the Challenge of Social Solidarity

Melleuish

2018

Social Sciences

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This paper examines modern democracy from the perspective of its capacity to generate social solidarity. To do so it considers the idea of asabiya, first used by Ibn Khaldûn and more recently applied by Peter Turchin. It postulates that this approach is quite similar to the analysis made by Roman historian Sallust. It considers the issue of the creation and decay of asabiya in the context of Benjamin Constant's distinction between ancient and modern liberty. Ancient liberty seeks to generate asabiya and this has tended to make democracies a belligerent form of polity. Modern liberty and liberalism are happy to leave individuals to cultivate their own garden. This means that while modern democracy, which can be understood as the form of democracy founded on modern liberty, has some belligerent features it tends towards favoring peace. This raises a problem for modern liberal forms of democracy as they face difficulty in creating social solidarity and opponents who can create asabiya and the aggression that goes with it.

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Living in an Age of Comfort: Understanding Religion in the Twenty-first Century

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