Spiritual Identity outside Institutional Religion: A Phenomenological Exploration

Russo‐Netzer, Pninit; Mayseless, Ofra

doi:10.1080/15283488.2013.858224

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“…This study aims to further explore this subject by interviews with visitors to a Dutch festival that, in its aims and program, centers on spiritual development and transformation. Similar to what authors have observed for the New Age movement (Hill et al, 2000;Ivakhiv, 2003;Lewis, 1992;Russo-Netzer & Mayseless, 2014;Taylor, 2005), visitors to this festival explicitly search for spirituality beyond the traditional institutions of religion, and in this search give a central place to experiences in nature. Because they are purposefully engaged in spirituality and nature and thus have developed views on it, investigating the lived experiences of these persons can shed more light on the spiritual dimensions of nature for broader movements engaged in this theme.…”

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confidence: 55%

An Encounter with One's Deeper Self and Energy: A Phenomenological Study Among Spiritually Engaged Individuals in the Netherlands

2015

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Natural environments are the setting for spiritual experiences for people from all over the world. Interpretative phenomenological explorations of such experiences are scarce, even though the method suits the topic. We conducted field interviews with 18 Dutch visitors of a Dutch spiritual festival on how they (1) describe spiritual experiences in natural environments and (2) see the role of different natural attributes in these experiences. Principle descriptive concepts for spiritual experiences were a deeper self and spiritual energy. Aspects of nature facilitating such experiences were wilder sites, open spaces, sacred sites, sites remembered from childhood, old trees, animals, water, and fire, each adding a quality to the experience that resembled its innate properties. Participants agreed on the positive impact of these experiences on their well-being, mentioning different degrees of long-term benefit.

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confidence: 55%

An Encounter with One's Deeper Self and Energy: A Phenomenological Study Among Spiritually Engaged Individuals in the Netherlands

2015

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“…For both studies, institutional ethical committees granted approval and participants gave informed consent. Both studies' data were analyzed using qualitative methods: The peer provider study employed a grounded theory approach (Moran, Russinova, Gidugu, et al, 2012) while the non-clinical study was analyzed with a phenomenological perspective (Russo-Netzer & Mayseless, 2014). Both studies provided rich accounts of processes of positive change and displayed the participants' own voices regarding the phenomenon explored.…”

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“…Twenty-seven Israeli individuals were interviewed in a study examining processes of spiritual change. The sample included individuals with diverse challenging life experiences, ranging from loss of loved ones, dealing with terminal illnesses, and abuse in the family, to socioeconomic hardships, parenting a child with disabilities, and existential loss of meaning (Russo-Netzer & Mayseless, 2014).…”

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Understanding Universal Elements in Mental Health Recovery

Moran

Russo‐Netzer

2015

Qual Health Res

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In our study, we examined underlying human elements embedded in mental health recovery, by exploring shared positive change among peer providers with serious mental illnesses in recovery and a normative sample in spiritual growth following adversity. We conducted secondary analysis based on two independent qualitative study samples consisting of 31 American peer providers and 27 Israeli adults. We identified three shared and two distinct enablers of positive change: peer groups, significant mentor, self-transcendent experiences. Distinct enablers were having meaningful task/role (clinical sample) and deliberate choice to commit to change in face of uncertainty (non-clinical sample). Enablers facilitated positive processes of meaning making and enhancement of agency. Enablers provided opportunities to which the person responded and made use of--thus, enacting a positive reinforcement of change processes. The findings highlight the value of examining mental health recovery in a broad holistic perspective and have implications for practice.

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“…An in-depth, face to face, a semi-structured interview was conducted and recorded with each participant as noted by [24]. The participants were explained about the purpose of the research and they give written statements allowing the researcher to use the interview for said research.…”

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Student Fearlessly Attacking Teacher and Others: A Qualitative Study of Ethics on High School and Colleges Students in Bekasi City

Firdaus¹

2019

JSS

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Indonesian are polite and kind to others, and nowadays, central and local government of the Republic of Indonesia (both provincial and district) are actively implementing programs of 9-year compulsory education. However, at the same time, the acts of ethical infractions were very widespread and were done by students. Group fighting between students and other negative activities that were done by a student in a group or alone often occur and are very worrying. The other event of violating ethics were: high school student attacking substitute teacher, student bullying teacher, attacking school cleaning service personnel, and much more. The purpose of this paper is to uncover deeply what are the reasons or the backgrounds of the unethical behavior of student's violence against teachers and other personnel in school and communities. The setting of this research is in Bekasi City, West Java Province of Indonesia. This research used a qualitative approach with grounded research design with questioners, field observations and interviews data gathering. The research is focused on ethical behavior and knowledge of high school and undergraduate university students in the setting area. The research questions were: 1) Why student or students do violence to teacher and others?. 2) What is underlying their violent behaviors? The research result indicated that the level of educations has strong influences on the ethical behaviors of a person. And research also found that there were four factors that strongly influenced the act of unethical behavior of students. This research suggested a model of ethical teaching in educational institutions.

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Spiritual Identity outside Institutional Religion: A Phenomenological Exploration

Cited by 15 publications

References 63 publications

An Encounter with One's Deeper Self and Energy: A Phenomenological Study Among Spiritually Engaged Individuals in the Netherlands

An Encounter with One's Deeper Self and Energy: A Phenomenological Study Among Spiritually Engaged Individuals in the Netherlands

Understanding Universal Elements in Mental Health Recovery

Student Fearlessly Attacking Teacher and Others: A Qualitative Study of Ethics on High School and Colleges Students in Bekasi City

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