Spiritual Herstories

Author : Amanda Williamson
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781789380828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Herstories written by Amanda Williamson and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research into spirituality, dance, gender, religion, somatics and women-centred dance research. Written by women dance scholars in higher education, this evocative and illuminating work highlights a growing discourse on gendered leadership in dance research. Spiritual Herstories provides new pathways and innovative research methods that respond to the educational needs of women emerging in male-centric socio-historic research traditions.

Author : Sondra Fraleigh
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050789
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to the Dance Itself written by Sondra Fraleigh and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Back to the Dance Itself, Sondra Fraleigh edits essays that illuminate how scholars apply a range of phenomenologies to explore questions of dance and the world; performing life and language; body and place; and self-knowing in performance. Some authors delve into theoretical perspectives, while others relate personal experiences and reflections that reveal fascinating insights arising from practice. Collectively, authors give particular consideration to the interactive lifeworld of making and doing that motivates performance. Their texts and photographs study body and the environing world through points of convergence, as correlates in elemental and constant interchange modeled vividly in dance. Selected essays on eco-phenomenology and feminism extend this view to the importance of connections with, and caring for, all life. Contributors: Karen Barbour, Christine Bellerose, Robert Bingham, Kara Bond, Hillel Braude, Sondra Fraleigh, Kimerer LaMothe, Joanna McNamara, Vida Midgelow, Ami Shulman, and Amanda Williamson.

Author : John W. Coakley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231508611
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Men, and Spiritual Power written by John W. Coakley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft.

Author : B. Anne Frey
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599426501
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discerning Life with Dreams: The Triadic Relationships Between Dreams, Discernment, and Spiritual Intelligence written by B. Anne Frey and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored the relationship between dreams, discernment, and spiritual intelligence. It focused on the experience of people who use dreams to help them with spiritual discernment or decision-making in a spiritual context. A case study methodology included questionnaires, personal dream records, and interviews to understand the seven participants experiences of exploring their dreams for guidance. Participants were self-selected by answering an ad seeking people whose dreams had helped them to make a decision, who journaled their dreams, and who consider themselves to be spiritual. Most participants reported being drawn to dreamwork by a significant life experience. While participants shared different perceptions as to what discernment consists of, each participant reported that dreams helped them to grow spiritually. A number of outcomes were exemplified, falling into two main grouping: a) the use of discernment in order to understand a dream (whether or not they ended up reaching a resolution or making a decision about the dream) and b) the use of dreams as part of a discernment process (whether or not the dreams helped them to resolve their discernment issue or make a decision). The intensity of emotion attached to an issue seemed, for some, to render it more difficult to arrive at particular decisions. For others, dreams seemed to ease the burden of discernment or decision-making by raising their degree of confidence towards their resolution or decision. Deepening appreciation of and growing desire for living spiritually, and learning more about spirituality were indicators of a developing spiritual intelligence. For most, spiritual growth occurred through knowledge or learning gained from their dreams. For some, their belief about God s role in their life impacted their experience of the Divine in their dreams.Finally, the study showed that individuals are not always aware of what had helped them, suggesting a subconscious process at work in both discernment and decision-making. The study affirmed a triadic link between dreams, discernment, and spiritual intelligence among people involved in spiritual dreamwork. It demonstrated ways by which the discernment process can build confidence in people who are turning to their dreams for guidance in a spiritual context.

Author : Mario T. Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135053650
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chicano Movement written by Mario T. Garcia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their communities. Recently, a new generation of historians has produced an explosion of interesting work on the Movement. The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century collects the various strands of this research into one readable collection, exploring the contours of the Movement while disputing the idea of it being one monolithic group. Bringing the story up through the 1980s, The Chicano Movement introduces students to the impact of the Movement, and enables them to expand their understanding of what it means to be an activist, a Chicano, and an American.

Author : Amanda Williamson
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1789386926
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somatic Movement Dance Therapy written by Amanda Williamson and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the importance of self-regulation and co-regulation. The chapters attend to self-regulating different tissues through movement, breath, sound and the imagination. Throughout the book the author shares processes and practices that support participants to balance their living tissues, moving from sympathetic arousal into parasympathetic ease and release. The study of the autonomic nervous system and how to innervate the parasympathetic through breath awareness, heart-sensing and intero-ception is the central through-line in the book. Uniquely, Williamson attends to the anatomical and physiological complexity underlying the apparent simplicity of somatic movement dance practice. How to sense-perceive and move with attuned awareness of specific body tissues, such the skeletal-muscular and craniosacral system invites the reader into a deep anatomical and physiological excavation of self-regulation. The interconnectivity of fascia, and the importance of cardio-ception, breath awareness and gravity lie at the heart of this book. Sensory-perceptual awareness of the heart is foregrounded as the most important ingredient in the efficacy of practice, as well as gravi-ception, soft-tissue-rolling and fascial unwinding. Includes a collective foreword from Sarah Whatley, Daniel Deslauriers, Celeste Snowber and Karin Rugman This is a must-read practice-as-research book, for under- and postgraduate students, researchers and educators and especially important for practitioners who feel the weight and condescension of the mechanistic paradigm.

Author : Elaine Neil Orr
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035210
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision written by Elaine Neil Orr and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Gordon Zyne
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663262993
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SPIRIT CARE written by Richard Gordon Zyne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Care is a resource created for spiritual care providers, especially chaplains, ministers, nurses, healthcare workers, educators, and family members who provide love and support to those facing crisis or trauma. Drawing from real patient encounters, this book is grounded in the concept of dialogue—a pathway to self-exploration, insight, and growth. It serves as a crucial component of the spirit care process, enabling individuals in need to delve into their inner world with the guidance of trained professionals and the Love of God. Spirit Care is rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ, as expressed in Matthew 18:20—”For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them”—Spirit Care embodies the essence of companionship and support. Spirit Care is a journey of discipleship that follows the path of Jesus, allowing His transformative power to flow through caregivers as they serve others. It presents real experiences of pain, suffering, and trial while also offering joy and fulfillment, and the affirmation of human worth and dignity. Through firsthand experiences, this book presents the profound impact of compassionate care on both caregivers and recipients. It is the hope of this author that this book will serve as a beacon for all who are called to the sacred work of Spirit Care, highlighting the enduring power of love, empathy, compassion, and faith in serving others.

Author : DeeAnna Merz Nagel
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398094209
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Case Studies in Spiritual Coaching written by DeeAnna Merz Nagel and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed text addresses a major problem in teaching and informing practitioners and trainees about the application of spirituality within the field of coaching. Its purpose is to inform the coaching profession about how spirituality is being utilized by various coaches across the life, wellness, and executive coach domains. The goals are to provide definitions, applications, ethical considerations, and speculation on the future of the profession on a wide range of applications. The content of the book will be a succinct series of case studies while providing cutting-edge tools and interventions for the coaching profession. Both editors are certified coaches as well as licensed mental health practitioners in the counseling and social work fields. The goal of this book is to offer guidance for the coach whose client brings direct or indirect spiritual content into the coaching session. Each chapter highlights established coach skills such as active listening, powerful questioning, and goal setting. The text brings together both seasoned spiritual coaches who have influenced this new and growing area coaching profession, and new spiritual coaches who bring their own diverse knowledge. The contributors describe their work in a diverse array of case studies, with their wide range of backgrounds and approaches, so that others can learn. Case Studies in Spiritual Coaching can be used as a primary text for courses that teach spiritual or intuitive coaching and/or courses that teach any coaching domain such as life coaching, wellness coaching, or executive coaching. This book may also be used as an adjunct text for courses that include an introduction to spirituality within the coaching profession.

Author : Caroline Frizell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000801632
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community written by Caroline Frizell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education, somatics and performance. With contributors from the wide-ranging fields of performance and visual arts, psychotherapy, dance and somatics, this book articulates practice-based experiences in a creative language. The readers are invited to move from the process of reading, into the experience of being in and making sense of the world through a moving body. The book meanders purposefully through practice-led embodied approaches in research that generate new knowledge, methodological frameworks that have emerged in response to the needs of different contexts, as well as offerring a window on first-hand experience as practice. The book will appeal to a wide range of practitioners and trainees in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, arts therapies, counselling and psychotherapy, somatics, community practice and performance.