The therapeutic value of pilgrimage: a grounded theory study

Warfield, Heather A.; Baker, Stanley B.; Foxx, Sejal B. Parikh

doi:10.1080/13674676.2014.936845

Cited by 28 publications

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“…prayers (see also Schnell & Pali, 2013;Warfield, Baker, & Parikh Foxx, 2014). The poses people strike in many selfies, at times smiling at the camera and at times gazing impassively, add a layer of meaning.…”

Section: Self-promotionmentioning

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Holy selfies: Performing pilgrimage in the age of social media

Caidi

Beazley

Marquez

2018

IJIDI

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In this article, we examine the selfie-taking and sharing practices of Muslim pilgrims in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. We introduce the concept of the “holy selfie” (a selfie taken during either theHajj or the Umrah pilgrimages) and report on a visual content analysis of a sample of 100 holy selfies publicly available on social networking platforms. We seek to reach an understanding of the work that holy selfies do in the context of the expressions of spiritual and religious identity of those producing them. Our findings suggest that the embodied experience of pilgrims at the holy sites finds an expressive release through holy selfies, with many pilgrims viewing selfie-taking as an important part of their journey. The selfies (and associated features) capture and document pilgrims’ experiences, contribute to their meaning-making, enable the sharing of memories with loved ones, and attract online followers. Our study provides a picture of how holy selfies blur the gender line (as many males as females take them), emerge despite the opposition of Saudi authorities, and serve as a means of engaging with a multiplicity of audiences. We seek to start a conceptual and methodological conversation about this emerging phenomenon of identity construction involving the use of new media along with the construction of affiliative identities among geographically dispersed communities of Muslim pilgrims. The taking of holy selfies can thus be read as a tactic used by 21st-century Muslims to create opportunities for self-representation and community building in a context of increasing Islamophobia.

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Section: Self-promotionmentioning

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Holy selfies: Performing pilgrimage in the age of social media

Caidi

Beazley

Marquez

2018

IJIDI

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“…The second assumption is that research with task-based interactions carries both participants and researcher voices in the forms of vignettes, interview excerpts, personal narratives, and life stories, to name a few (Belbase, 2016). The research participants and the researcher's voices are the experiential expressions through narrative excerpts and the researcher's voice in the form of interpretive and reflexive accounts of the context, questions, and categories (Bergkamp, 2010;Hertz, 1997;Warfield, 2013). The researcher decenters his position by keeping the participants' voices upfront in the direct words of their own (Pierre, 2009), being aware of the fact that their voice may not "speak on their own" (Mauthner & Doucet, 2003, p. 418) and needed researcher's further interpretation.…”

Section: Researcher and The Participants' Voicementioning

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Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Actional Beliefs about Teaching Geometric Transformations with Geometer’s Sketchpad

Belbase¹,

Panthi²,

Khanal³

et al. 2020

EUR J MATH SCI ED

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Preservice mathematics teachers' beliefs about actions related to the use of the technological tools in teaching mathematics may affect how they are going to use them in their classroom activities. However, there is a limited evidence of what beliefs they hold on their intended actions of using technological tools in teaching mathematics. This study presents two preservice high school mathematics teachers' actional beliefs related to their intended actions in teaching geometric transformations (GTs) using Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP). The study comprised of a series of five task-based qualitative interviews with each of two senior undergraduate preservice teachers at a medium-sized public university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. This study used a radical constructivist grounded theory (RCGT) with five assumptions—symbiosis, voice, cognition, adaptation, and praxis as a theoretical framework to guide the study process. The thematic findings of the study included four in vivo categories of their beliefs associated with actions of teaching GTs with GSP – assessment of student learning, engaging students in a group activity in exploring GTs with GSP, engaging students in individual activity in exploring GTs with GSP, and exploring GTs with GSP as 'suck it up and do it.' Pedagogical implications of these categories have been discussed.</p>

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“…For eksempel refererer Martine til en sanseopplevelse hun kaller "euforisk", som kan referere til en form for spirituell inspirasjon hun har hatt i møte med naturen (Fredrickson & Anderson, 1999). Funnene bekrefter at pilegrimsvandring er et komplekst felt (Warfield, Baker & Foxx, 2014;Lunga, 2010).…”

Section: Pilegrimsturens Støttende Psykologiske Egenskaperunclassified

Kunsten å gå: Pilegrimsvandring og subjektiv livskvalitet

Løvoll¹,

Torrissen²

2020

NJACH

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Målet med studien: å undersøke hvordan en pilegrimstur påvirker deltakernes subjektive livskvalitet og hvilke faktorer som muligens kan identifiseres som støttende for den enkelte deltakers subjektive livskvalitet. Design: I prosjektet "Kunsten å gå", ble elleve deltakere (alder 38-70) fra en organisert mestringsgruppe fulgt opp før og etter deres 6-16 dager lange pilegrimsvandring i Spania. Tiltaket ble tilbudt som et helsefremmende initiativ. Pre-og postmålinger av subjektiv livskvalitet (SWLS; tilfredshet med livet, WEMWBS; mental wellbeing og PG; personlig vekst) alle med tre repeterte målinger (før, like etter tur og 14 dager etter tur), ble etterfulgt av individuelle intervju. Funn: Pilegrimsturen hadde stor innflytelse på deltakernes subjektive livskvalitet, men turen hadde ulik betydning for deltakerne, målt med tre ulike tilnaerminger. Effektstørrelsene viste endringer med middels og liten effekt. Åtte ulike temaer knyttet til gjennomføringen av pilegrimsturen ble funnet på tvers av materialet, og ble identifisert som psykologisk støttende: livsmestring, fellesskap, selvaksept, fysiske utfordringer, sanseopplevelser, opplevelse av mening, glede og latter samt lekenhet. Praktiske implikasjoner: Studien gir støtte for at langdistansevandring, slik som pilegrimsvandring, har betydelig helsefremmende potensiale, gitt at rammene er velorganiserte og at deltakeren har mulighet til å realisere noen av de identifiserte støttende faktorene. Verdi: Denne enkeltstudien gir systematisk kunnskap om hvordan de støttende faktorene påvirker forståelsen av pilegrimsvandring som et helsefremmende tiltak.

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The therapeutic value of pilgrimage: a grounded theory study

Cited by 28 publications

References 45 publications

Holy selfies: Performing pilgrimage in the age of social media

Holy selfies: Performing pilgrimage in the age of social media

Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Actional Beliefs about Teaching Geometric Transformations with Geometer’s Sketchpad

Kunsten å gå: Pilegrimsvandring og subjektiv livskvalitet

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