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Spirituality in the Workplace, 2007.
A research paper on spirituality in the workplace.
8,070 words (approx. 32.3 pages), 45 sources, APA, $ 173.95
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This paper explains that the study of spirituality in the workplace is no longer seen as a peripheral concern in management but rather as a subject that can throw considerable understanding on managerial issues and the process of leadership, as well as on learning processes in the workplace and organization. The author explains that this study investigates the relationship of spirituality to aspects of leadership and management such as morality, stress, ethics and unawareness of human welfare. The paper states that the methodology for this quantitative research uses face-to-face interviews with twenty managerial professionals in the commercial aviation services. The paper includes several quotations and the research questions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Background
Problem Statement
Purpose
Significance
Nature of the Study
Research Questions
Conceptual or Theoretical Framework
Definitions
Spirituality
Detachment and "Letting Go"
Assumptions
Scope, Limitations, and Delimitations
Conclusion
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"Another very significant aspect of the theoretical foundations of this study is that there is a sense of progression or movement from a sense of "pure" spiritually to an "applied" spirituality. This means that true inner and subjective spiritual experience is a central motivating force in the manifestation of that spirituality in life and work. Therefore "applied" spirituality is in reality inner spirituality in action in the external world. This aspect has enormous implications for the present study as it suggests that the inner significance of spiritual experiential aspects such as detachment or " letting go" (Zazen in Zen Buddhism ) as a deeply felt experience in the subjective nature of the individual, is translated into understanding and action which can practically improve leadership capabilities and interaction in the workplace."
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Spirituality In the Workplace, 2002.
Discusses the article "The Ethics of Shrewdness" and how it helps Christians remain true to their faith in the workplace.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 28.95
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This paper explains how spirituality in the workplace has become an important topic since the 1990's. The paper uses the article, "The Ethics of Shrewdness", to help show how Christians can remain true to their faith while maintaining relationships with others that do not share that faith so that they may be successful in business together.
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"Christians in the workplace face many rash and fastidious decisions. In the workplace, a manager may argue against dishonorable acts because they may ruin the company's reputation, but he may not imply that those acts are wrong in the eyes of God. During competition and pressure to succeed in business, he or she is enticed to be "shrewd." A beneficial quality in decision-making is shrewdness. "The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'shrewd' to mean 'sagacious, sensible, discriminating, astute, judicious.'"(McLoughlin 5) However, cutting corners or cheating to achieve success, as well as bribery are considered to be shrewd business. In order to remain successful in business endeavors, one must be shrewd in these pacifications. In undertaking decisions, absolute ethics would prohibit this fashion of shrewdness. Therefore, a Christian's coherence to an absolute measurement of virtue is viewed as business suicide as well as "religious fanaticism." In order to coexist with a value system that is opposite of their beliefs, a Christian in the workplace can relate to other business people by simply being shrewd."
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Spirituality and Health, 2003.
An analysis of the impact of spirituality on improved health care outcomes.
3,518 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 30 sources, APA, $ 98.95
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This paper evaluates the patients' and staffs' perspectives of the relevance, importance and promotion of spirituality in the health care institution and the institution's effectiveness in promoting spiritual care. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the relevant literature to develop a better understanding of the concepts of spiritual health in general, and how it applies to health care and workplace settings in particular. A summary of the research and salient findings are presented in the conclusion.
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Spirituality in Health Care
Definition of Terms
Prayer and Spirituality
Spiritual Health
Conclusion
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"Medical care that neglects the spiritual dimension cannot be called holistic. It overlooks a vital component of human nature, the spirit that nourishes and sustains the spark of life. Holistic health care, therefore, includes meeting the patient's physiological needs, promoting psychosocial relationships and supporting the fulfillment of spiritual aspirations. This interdependence of the physiological, the psychosocial and the spiritual aspects of development should be realized. Just as unexpressed anger and resentment can cause diseases referred to as psychosomatic, forms of spiritual distress such as guilt, irascibility, lack of forgiveness of self or others, and vindictiveness can lead to illness and suffering. To provide spiritual care, staff members must understand what spiritual health is and be able to recognize the spiritually healthy person. In the United States, early schools of nursing were affiliated with specific Christian religious organizations, and, within this context, student nurses were taught to include prayer as part of their care. Increasing cultural diversity and the emergence of public and nonsectarian hospitals and care facilities, ultimately eroded "official" prayer from most nursing curricula. In recent years, however, courses on spirituality have begun to reemerge (Snyder and Lindquist, 2002)."
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The Effects of Spirituality, 2004.
A look at the mental and physical aspects of spirituality for the Jewish, Catholic, and other faiths' elderly population.
1,414 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper discusses how the relationship of spirituality to aging is not a new idea and how society, as a whole, has been thinking about spirituality and its effects on aging since the first recording of religious history. It examines how the effects of spirituality on the elderly population have been shown to be positive, long-lasting, and generally beneficial to all who are preparing for their final days. In particular, it looks at how most religions include references in texts that point to late life as an honorable phase that presents distinct opportunities for spiritual growth, from the Sheikh in Islam to the Rebbe in Hassidic Judaism. It demonstrates how each religion describes a set of practices that leads to eventual spiritualism.
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"For example, in the Jewish faith, death is a part of the natural cycle. Death, like life, has meaning and is part of God's plan. Although life is valued above all else, death is an acceptable natural part of that life. In addition, the Jewish faith has a firm belief in an afterlife, where those who have lived a worthy life will be rewarded . Another example is that of the Catholic faith. The Catholic faith is in Jesus Christ as a savior. Through the saving death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Catholics are able to face the reality of death with a serenity that the spirituality holds. In both of these examples, death is not feared, but exalted, leading to a more positive outlook on aging."
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Christian Spirituality, 2002.
An analysis of the place of Christian spirituality in the modern world.
1,398 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper examines how post modernity is characterized by a rejection of things people thought they were certain about and how in recognizing a paradigm shift many are questioning whether this century has delivered on spirituality. It looks at how the effects of hyper-reality where the expectations of people are not closely related to the real world has meant a greater need to find a spirituality that is rooted in the personal and linked to the secular world.
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Introduction
Spirituality - An Inward Movement?
Living Reality and Personal Experience
For Post Modernity -A Systematic Way of Attending to the Presence of God
Conclusion
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"If spirituality is intimately connected with life then it could be said to be life breathed into all, as daily routines are followed in a way that generates life even in the mundane happenings (Treston, 1985, p. 90). Diverse groups throughout history have seen the nature of Christian spirituality in different ways. However, the common thread which emerges from a study of a range of spiritualities over time is one of lived experience, how people react, how they connect the everyday with the transcendent, and how they journey through life searching for direction. Evident in Newman, Merton, Day, Benedictine and Ignatian spirituality is life and growth- deeply linked to the spirit."
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Spirituality and Terminal Illness, 2004.
Examines the positive effects that spirituality has on patients afflicted with terminal illnesses.
3,382 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 96.95
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As a universal practice, the field of medicine functions as a single dimension, focusing on the medical model of seeking causes and solutions from scientific perspectives. Until recently, however, many patients with terminal illnesses such as cancer and heart disease have claimed the correlation of their religion and faith in sustaining their hope to recover from illnesses. This assertion has caught the attention of diverse health professions and led to research and studies in the analysis of religion or spirituality as an element in the medical process. This paper explores the assertions and idea of spirituality as being able to help in the healing process of terminally ill patients. The recognition of the value of elements such as faith and religion by both patients and doctors is one of the essential aspects of this study's research and analysis.
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Spirituality
Hypothesis
Review of Literature
Methods
Proposed Statistical Techniques
Expected Findings
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"A medical assessment article indicates that spirituality is an element that exists within medical stages faced by a patient. This is identified through a patient's demonstration of hope for recovery, or discovery of cure despite the possible results of a disease such as physical abnormalities or death. Despite the unexplainable occurrences transpiring between spirituality and the field of medicine, the positive behaviors and improved physical conditions demonstrated and testified by terminally ill patients provide supporting evidence to the positive association of spirituality in medicine."
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Apostolic Spirituality, 2002.
Examines the emergence of spirituality in the apostolic period of Christianity.
11,090 words (approx. 44.4 pages), 22 sources, APA, $ 218.95
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This research sets forth the context in which Christian spirituality unfolded in the first century A.D., also known at the apostolic period. It discusses in particular evidence of how the apostles made connections from spiritual experience to the shared experience of faith in the Christian community. The paper examines how the apostolic generation arrived at and then fostered a cohesive doctrine of spirituality that centered around the figure of Jesus Christ, in the shape of a mission of love.
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"No less significant is the fact that this spirituality and the apostolic mission are new because they specifically differ from Judaism, not only in the content of the message but also in the behavior of the messengers. For example, Matthew's Jesus (13:14) refers to those who are taught in parables as a fulfillment of "the [Hebrew] prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing he shall hear, and shall not understand." What is implied here is that the teachings of Jesus are meant to be directly relevant to Jewish experience, but the Christian mission is also meant to reinterpret it and point it in new directions. When Matthew says that "every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven" (13:52), the implication is that the new interpretation, not the old law, will be preeminent, hence that the Christians and not the Jews (i.e., the new scribes and not the old black-letter-law priests of Judaism) are to have the keys of the kingdom."
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Spirituality, Religion, and Faith, 2005.
A look at what spirituality, religion, and faith mean within the Catholic religion.
1,547 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper looks at the modern-day notion of spirituality, religion, and faith and how each has a slightly different meaning within the context of our times. The paper explains these differences and points out that, while Catholicism has, to some extent, embraced the contemporary notion of spirituality and faith, both concepts are still connected to and influenced by religious structures and culture.
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"The words spirituality, religion, and faith, are often used interchangeably. When they are used to connote or denote a specific form of theistic phenomenon, more often than not, the term 'spirituality' is usually used to suggest the more individualistic aspects of God-focused thoughts and actions, the word 'religion' is more often used when discussing the issues of a particular traditional strain of philosophy regarding the divine essence, (such as the phrase 'the Catholic religion') and the notion 'faith' is often referred to as a schema of belief that may or may not be communal or individual-in other words, to say that one has faith in God means that one has a belief in God."
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Spirituality and Dylan Thomas, 2001.
This paper studies Dylan Thomas, the poet and the persona, and how he was greatly influenced by spirituality.
2,460 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper examines Dylan Thomas and his poetry by analyzing his work through spiritual glasses. It describes the influences of spirituality versus religion. It studies his work "18 Poems" which he wrote in 1934 and how it brought him immediate recognition. It excerpts his poems and analyzes them. It concludes that Dylan Thomas was a very spiritual person influenced mostly by Christian, Jewish and Catholic images.
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"Every poet is, in a sense, two people: the poet and the persona, or presence, that speaks through the poetry. With Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) both poet and persona tend to scintillate into the sublime and the ridiculous. With the aid of what Thomas called Comrade Bottle, they could unleash themselves into the depths of the subterranean and the grotesquely morbid. Some of Thomas' early verses were unintelligible, so in love with words was he; and critics have often disagreed on valid interpretations of Thomas' work (Ferris, 2000, p.95). As well, the disagreements carry over to valid interpretations of the poet's life. How much of his drunken, often tactless prattle was for the sake of the song, and how much was the poet's gift-and torture-of seeing so much and feeling so deeply that it was all he could do to fend off madness? In a 1933 South Wales Evening Post essay, he wrote: "the borderline of insanity is more difficult to trace than the majority of people, comparatively safe within the barriers of their own common-sensibility, can realise" (Bedford-St. Martin's, N.D. 2). "
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Spirituality, 2006.
A review of Watson's definition of spirituality in the context of her theory of transpersonal caring.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses Watson's definition of spirituality in terms of her theory of transpersonal caring as "a return to reverence and a sense of sacredness with regard to life and human experiences, especially those related to caring and healing work during their most vulnerable moments of life's journey". The paper talks about how spirituality is completely based on one idea: that all human beings and every object in the universe are connected and are also interconnected. Not only does the individual person have a connection to the universe, but the nurse and patient are interconnected in this reverence and sacredness.
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Religion and Spirituality in End-of-life Care, 2006.
A discussion regarding the role of religion and spirituality in treatment interventions and outcomes for patients receiving end-of-life care.
1,850 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper focuses on one of the most common coping mechanisms that terminal patients turn to as they experience end-of-life care: subsistence to religion and spirituality. This paper reviews a research proposal developed to effectively demonstrate the presence and occurrence of religion and spirituality among patients receiving end-of-life care, as well as determine the nature and dynamics of this concept from the perspective of the patients.
Outline:
Introduction
Statement of Problem/Objectives
Review of Relevant Literature
Definition of Terms
Methodology
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"In the practice of EOL care, it is inevitable that patients would discuss their situation with their caregivers, an occurrence that must be prepared for by the caregivers themselves. Most often, discussion of patients' situations are discussed with philosophical and reflective analyses, an approach that is commonly synonymous with religion and spirituality. As defined in the first section of this chapter, religion and spirituality operate on different dimensions: religion is primarily community-centered and shared among individuals, while spirituality, although a concept that can be expressed and shared, is mainly a feeling experienced by the individual, and may be shared or not shared to other people."
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Materialism Vs. Spirituality, 2005.
A discussion on the elements of materialism and spirituality.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper looks closely at the elements of materialism and spirituality. It contends that materialism takes the more significant role in our daily lives. The paper firstly looks at the ideas of psychology, Marx and Nietzsche to prove that materialism is central to our human nature. The author explains that writings negative to materialism usually only deal with the excess of materialism, not materialism itself, to finally conclude that spiritually is important but not vital to existence.
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"This estrangement between the two spheres of life, the relationship between materialism and spirituality, is as central a divide as one can imagine. From the remains of our earliest writings, these concepts have been illuminated for us by religious figures, philosophers, novelists, and literary critics, amongst many others. The two concepts, however, are often inextricably linked. In our daily lives, it is clear that materialism remains dominant, and it is vital to our survival as a species. Substance, then, is the true reality of the world, as it is used for the medium of explanation. Spiritualism, too, has been shown to play an important role in our lives as well, as faith has been illustrated as a guiding construct for people daily. The following will address the concepts of materialism and spirituality, analyzing the importance or vitality of acknowledging our material nature while allowing that spirituality too has a place ..."
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Art and Spirituality, 2003.
Discusses the issue of whether or not modern art and architecture consider spirituality in their themes.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the issue of whether or not modern art and architecture consider spirituality in their themes. The paper contends that the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and artists Mary Cassatt and Judy Chicago contain a fundamentally spiritual dimension that speaks to the persistence of the human spirit and the linkage of that spirit to nature and to society.
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"Despite the fact that clearly identifiable religious imagery began to disappear in the course of the modern era many if not precisely most of the major artists and architects of the nineteenth and twentieth century have been ..."
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Faith, Theology, Belief and Spirituality, 2005.
A paper examining the differences between faith, theology, belief and spirituality.
1,079 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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In en effort to explain the differences between faith, theology, belief and spirituality, this paper considers these terms in their commonly expressed linguistic forms, as they occur in our daily lives. By examining the common usage of these terms, the author of the paper attempts to impart an understanding of their subtle and not so subtle differences.
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"Take, for example, the notion of belief. I might say that I believe in evolution, that I believe that human beings evolved from primates. In other words, one can believe in a supposition that may or may not be correct that has nothing to do with conventional religious structures and institutions, or even, if one accepts fundamentalist interpretations of Genesis, goes against such religious suppositions. I might also say that I believe that my father will arrive around six in the evening to pick me up from school. Belief thus connotes something that one thinks is probable or likely-I believe in God, I believe that McDonald's is better than Burger King, I believe-or do not believe-I will get a better job after graduating from college."
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Native American Spirituality and Traditions, 2004.
Discusses the traditions and spirituality of the Eastland Woodlands Native Americans.
1,070 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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The Woodlands people lived in three main areas, the upper Great Lakes and Ohio River valley, the Lower Great Lakes, and the coastal region. This paper examines some of the traditions of these Native American groups, as well as their spiritual beliefs. It looks at their connection to the land, their reverence for all living things, and naming traditions. The paper also touches on the artifacts that accompanied their spiritual rituals.
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"But for Native Americans, names referred more to spiritual qualities. Lakota men might receive their adult name because of a dream or from something they saw in a 'vision quest,' a purposeful spiritual retreat. Or they could be named for a wondrous deed or a horrid misdeed. No matter how the adult name arose, however, it meant more than Tom, Dick or Harry. The name was meant to draw a connection between the physical person receiving the name and the spiritual things inside and outside of that person."
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