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Hall, Ronald E. "Social Work Practice with Arab Families: The Implications of Spirituality vis-à-vis Islam." Advances in Social Work 8, no. 2 (November 30, 2007): 328–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/211.

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In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, spiritualism has become apparent as critical to social work practice with Arab families. Regrettably, research on Arab families today is all but non-existent.Their belief in Islam is the fastest growing form of spirituality in Central Asia. Social workers who do not acknowledge this fact will be at a severe disadvantage in their attempts to treat Arab clientele. It is not compulsory that practitioners endorse client belief systems or other aspects of their spirituality, but practitioners should acknowledge said systems as a critical point in the client’s frame of reference. In the interest of social justice, social workers are thus challenged to develop creative treatment strategies less confined to Western bias.

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Crisp, Beth R. "Charting the Development of Spirituality in Social Work in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: A Critical Commentary." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 3 (March 16, 2020): 961–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa015.

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Abstract This article provides a critical commentary on the place of spirituality in social work scholarship in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Compared with previous decades, the applications of spirituality within social work have expanded, and understandings of what spirituality entails have become more nuanced. In part, this reflects an intention and methodology which enabled scholarship from beyond the Anglosphere to be included in this commentary, including the perspectives of indigenous peoples. Three key issues were identified in the literature: a lack of consensus as to how spirituality is understood, including whether it can be measured; the broadening scope for spirituality in social work practice, including growing recognition that spirituality has a role beyond direct practice in social policy and advocacy work; and the impact on social workers or holistic practice models which acknowledge the spirituality of service users and consequences of this for social work education. Although there are many positives to have emerged from this growing acceptance of a legitimate place for spirituality in social work, social workers need to take care to ensure that the ways they incorporate spirituality into their practice is not harmful to service users.

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McGhee, Peter, and Patricia Grant. "Applying critical realism in spirituality at work research." Management Research Review 40, no. 8 (August 21, 2017): 845–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mrr-05-2016-0124.

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Purpose This study aims to demonstrate how critical realism (CR) can be used in spirituality at work (SAW) research and to provide a practical example of CR in SAW research. Design/methodology/approach CR is a philosophical meta-theory that allows the stratification of spirituality into different levels of reality, advocates for research methods matching the ontology of the level investigated and provides complementary methods of exploring this phenomenon’s causal power in social contexts. The authors present a study where CR was used to explain how and why SAW influences ethics in organisational contexts. Findings The results demonstrate that CR provides a useful approach to bridging the positivist-interpretivist difference in SAW research. Moreover, a CR approach helped explain the underlying conditions and causal mechanisms that power SAW to influence ethical decision-making and behaviour in the workplace. Originality/value While CR has been applied in the management literature, negligible SAW research has used this approach. That which exists is either conceptual or does not discuss methods of data analysis, or describe how critical realist concepts resulted in their findings. This paper addresses that lacuna. CR also provides value, as an alternative approach to SAW research, in that it allows the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as complementary, not confrontational methods while providing a more integrated and deeper view of SAW and its effects.

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Boynton, Heather M., and Christie Mellan. "Co-Creating Authentic Sacred Therapeutic Space: A Spiritually Sensitive Framework for Counselling Children." Religions 12, no. 7 (July 12, 2021): 524. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12070524.

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Social work values client-centered holistic approaches of care, yet there is a lack of approaches addressing spirituality in counselling with children. Children’s spirituality and conceptualization have been disenfranchised. Children’s spiritual experiences, ways of knowing and perceptions are important to attend to when supporting them through an impactful life event such as trauma, grief, or loss (TGL). Parents may not fully understand or have the capacity to attend to their child’s spirituality. Counsellors appear to lack knowledge and training to attend to the spiritual needs and capacities of children. This article offers some research findings of children’s spirituality deemed to be vital for healing from TGL and counselling. It provides an understanding of some of the constructs and isolating processes described by children, parents and counsellors related to children’s spirituality in TGL. It also will present a spiritually sensitive framework specifically attuned to the spiritual dimension and creating spaces of safety and hope when working with children. The implications of not addressing the critical spiritual dimensions in practice for children are discussed, and recommendations for continued research and training for further theoretical development and future social work practice are offered.

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Cheatham, Carla. "Callahan, A. M. (2017). Spirituality and Hospice Social Work." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 81, no. 1 (January 28, 2020): 170–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222820902869.

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Ortiz-Gómez, Mar, Antonio Ariza-Montes, and Horacio Molina-Sánchez. "Servant Leadership in a Social Religious Organization: An Analysis of Work Engagement, Authenticity, and Spirituality at Work." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 22 (November 18, 2020): 8542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228542.

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Religious organizations represent a main part of the third sector and the social economy. Social faith-based institutions have some unique features that, in some respects, differentiate them from other entities, as they are characterized and defined not only by the services they provide, but also by how they provide them. It is part of their mission to convey the values that prevail in their institutional culture while developing their activities, being attractive to those workers who identify with their values. From this point of view, a key element of these entities’ success is that their employees feel identified with their work so that they are engaged in the institution and its values. The style of leadership exercised in such organizations is critical to fostering these attitudes and their long-term survival. This paper aims to study the link between perceived servant leadership by followers and work engagement, as well as the mediating role of authenticity and spirituality at work in this relationship. To this end, 270 workers from a Spanish Catholic organization in the social sector were surveyed. These data were processed by PLS (partial least squares). The results show that a servant leadership style by itself does not directly promote work engagement among employees of the target organization. The engagement of these workers comes through two mediating variables: authenticity and spirituality at work. This study covers a gap in the literature because although there are studies arguing that a strategy of servant leadership is critical to these organizations, to our knowledge, they do not finish demonstrating the fundamental roles that attitudes of authenticity and spirituality at work play in the perception of this type of leadership, achieving greater work engagement.

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Marques, Joan. "At the intersection of workplace spirituality and Buddhist psychology: a critical summary of literature." Journal of Global Responsibility 12, no. 2 (January 11, 2021): 137–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jgr-10-2019-0101.

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Purpose This paper aims to contribute or rekindle internal and external dialogues about the interactions, decisions and behaviour in the work environments; while also consider some critical overarching values that can help workforce members cope with the stress and pressure, which augment as the speed of life increases. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used in this project is an integrative literature review, supported by, findings and reflections from two doctoral dissertations: one in workplace spirituality and one in Buddhist psychology; and the researcher’s analysis and joint application of these two streams over the past decade. Findings Workplace spirituality and Buddhist psychology share overlapping, multi-interpretable traits, with as the main discrepancies that workplace spirituality is a relatively new concept, while Buddhist psychology has been around for more than 2,500 years; and workplace spirituality focusses only on the workplace, while Buddhist psychology focusses on every area of the life. Yet, the overarching notion of doing right while respecting and accepting others and aiming for an overarching better quality of life remains a strong driver in both realms. Research limitations/implications This paper will hopefully entice future researchers to engage in additional studies on spiritual intersections to expand on such databases and enhance awareness, acceptance and implementation amongst scholars and practitioners in business settings. Practical implications Exploring intersections of behavioural disciplines such as workplace spirituality and Buddhist psychology addresses an important need within workforce members and therewith also those within their social circles, as they evoke deeper and consistent contemplation on the aspects that connect us together and can enhance overall well-being and happiness at a greater magnitude than, this study experiences it today. Social implications The study aims to deliver a contribution to the database of awareness-enhancing literature, in an effort to help spawn dialogue and critical thinking about the attitudes and behaviours towards ourselves, others and the future. Originality/value This paper presents an overview of themes in two psychological streams, both focussing on living and acting with greater consciousness, to make more mindful decisions, improve the overall experience of cooperating towards a common good and understand the responsibility towards creating a future that will be sustainable rather than destroyed.

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Cooper, Katherine L., Lauretta Luck, Esther Chang, and Kathleen Dixon. "The Application of Schneider’s Critical Discourse Analysis Framework for a Study of Spirituality in Nursing." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20 (January 1, 2021): 160940692199891. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406921998912.

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Using a critical discourse analysis approach in analyzing data is useful in exploring meanings and the wider social, political, and historical context of the meanings. However, analyzing data using a critical discourse analysis approach can be difficult and complex. Hence there is a need for well-defined explicit approaches for discourse analysts to follow. The aim of this paper was to explore a clearly explained framework as a method for data analysis in a study investigating spirituality in nursing. Schneider’s method provided the researcher with such a clearly structured framework underpinned by critical discourse analysis that was used in the analysis of a series of interviews conducted with Australian registered nurses involved in the development of practice standards and those applying them in clinical practice. Schneider’s work steps provided a means of applying Fairclough’s and Chilton’s approaches to critical discourse analysis in a systematic and efficient manner to the analysis of the interview texts. The application of this method enabled the generation of findings that revealed the participants’ discursive constructions of spirituality.

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BREITBART, WILLIAM. "Who needs the concept of spirituality? Human beings seem to!" Palliative and Supportive Care 5, no. 2 (May 22, 2007): 105–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951507070162.

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Well, it's finally happened. I've been attacked in the scientific literature (Salander, 2006). Well, just to clarify, it wasn't a personal attack, but rather an attack of the highest and most noble order: an attack on the scientific rigor of the conceptual underpinnings of my recent work on meaning and spirituality in advanced cancer patients (e.g., Breitbart, 2002). To be honest, and a bit less grandiose, it was not an attack against me alone, but rather a set of critical comments aimed at a growing number of investigators who have been publishing papers (a 600% increase over the past 10 years) dealing with religious or spiritual aspects of life-threatening illness (Stefanek et al., 2005). The critical comments by Dr. Par Salander of the Department of Social Welfare, Umea University, Sweden, in a recent issue of the journal Psycho-oncology (Salander, 2006) challenge the need for and the validity of the concept of spirituality.

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Alleman, Ali-Sha, Sharlene Allen Milton, Linda Darrell, and Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi. "Women of Color and Work–Life Balance in an Urban Environment: What Is Reality?" Urban Social Work 2, no. 1 (June 2018): 80–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/2474-8684.2.1.80.

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Background:Work–life balance is a significant issue for women of color in an urban environment whether one is engaged in academia, traditional work, remote/dispersed work, or entrepreneurial work. As women of color attempt to address the tangible and intangible aspects of the “life” portion associated with the work–life balance discussion, elements such as race, ethnicity, religion, spirituality, and caregiver demands toward primary and extended family are often ignored.Objective:This article expands the work–life balance discussion to include urban women of color.Methods:Uses the lens of a womanist epistemology that incorporates critical race feminist theory while capturing viewpoints of four urban women of color who are social workers in the academy.Findings:reflect a nuanced voice challenging the work-life balance discussion to work life management.

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Pelleg, Gilly, and Ronit D. Leichtentritt. "Spiritual Beliefs among Israeli Nurses and Social Workers: A Comparison Based on Their Involvement with the Dying." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 59, no. 3 (November 2009): 239–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.59.3.d.

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The purpose of the study was to compare spiritual beliefs and practices between nurses and health care social workers based on their involvement with dying patients. Exposure to the dying was identified by two indicators: the percentage of terminally ill patients in the provider's care and the work environment. On the basis of the literature, differences were expected between the two types of professionals and the three degrees of involvement with the dying. Nurses were expected to have a higher spiritual perspective than social workers; and health care providers with high involvement in care for the dying were expected to hold the highest levels of spiritual beliefs. Contrary to expectations, no differences in spirituality were found between nurses and social workers; both groups exhibited medium levels of spirituality. Furthermore, health care providers who were highly involved with dying patients had the lowest spiritual perspectives. Tentative explanations of these unexpected results are presented and discussed.

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Fornaciari, Charles J., and Kathy Lund Dean. "Making the quantum leap." Journal of Organizational Change Management 14, no. 4 (August 1, 2001): 335–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000005547.

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The emerging research on spirituality, religion and work (SRW) poses concerns for all social scientists. Specifically, the paradigm currently employed for social scientific research, including measurement techniques, data analysis, and even accepted language, is inadequate for scholarship in the emerging inquiry stream. This paper discusses the current positivist model under which scholarly work derives legitimacy, and explores where the model fails to address the needs of SRW researchers from both conceptual and moral standpoints. Taking lessons from the natural sciences, we show how inquiry, modeling, and knowledge made critical leaps utilizing a post‐positivist creativity within a discipline that struggled with many of the same issues we currently face in the SRW research agenda. The paper concludes with implications for a new research methods paradigm and language that would better serve our understanding of the holistic human experience in organizations, including a discussion of the inherently moral underpinning of our work.

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Belwalkar, Shibani, Veena Vohra, and Ashish Pandey. "The relationship between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors – an empirical study." Social Responsibility Journal 14, no. 2 (June 4, 2018): 410–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-05-2016-0096.

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationships between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). It examines the relationship between the three workplace spirituality components – meaning and purpose in work, recognition of an inner life or spirit and interconnectedness with OCBs, mediated by the job satisfaction experienced by the employees, in the context of an Indian private sector bank. A sample consisting of 613 banking employees is studied. The results provide considerable support for all except one of the hypothesized relationships between workplace spirituality components and OCBs. Workplace spirituality components also all led to job satisfaction in employees, and job satisfaction tested positive for a relationship with OCBs. This study can provide significant inputs to promote managerial effectiveness and change management, leadership and holistic performance and growth of organizations, through environments that promote workplace spirituality. Design/methodology/approach The objective of this research is the study of the relationship between the constructs, a spirituality at work, i.e. the independent variable, and OCBs (OCBs), i.e. the dependent variable, and to explore the possibility of the mediating effects of job satisfaction. As the nature of this empirical study is rigorous, and one which will pave the way toward theory building, this research adopts a positivist orientation quantitative method throughout because it is deemed most suitable as it allows testing the validity of the main measure (the integration profile) and the theory using hypotheses and establishing relationships, and at the same time, it allows the researcher to remain independent from the research participants (Reswell, 1994). Consequently, the findings will be very useful to answer the most important research question of this study, which is to inform managers and employers whether workplace spirituality affects employees’ job satisfaction and OCBs. Findings Using the SPSS statistical package and the partial least square structured equation modeling analysis software tool, the research data have been analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative results suggest that there is a positive relationship between the dependent variable, OCBs, and the independent variables, meaning and purpose and interconnectedness. The inner life dimension of workplace spirituality did to correlate to the single factor of OCB analyzed, but individually inner life had a significant positive relationship with the individual components of OCB – altruism, civic virtue, courtesy and sportsmanship, except conscientiousness. The correlations established the relationships, and the regression analysis identified the relevant factors that had causal relationship. The 163 validity and reliability of the measurement instruments were confirmed by the high internal consistency. Research limitations/implications Improving organizational citizenship is one of the lowest costs and best ways to encourage organizational effectiveness. This research is important for businesses that want to create competence and organizational effectiveness. Indian contextual studies (non-Western context) on both workplace spirituality and organizational outcomes are few and keeping in mind the growth of Indian industry, the evolving workforce and demands being made on workplaces, a study like this is significant. The studies stated that businesses should act as agents of national progress and development and as socially responsible citizens contributing to the environment and influencing well-being. This would require a strong and hard look at current management practices. Allio (2011) stated that as a result of the consequences of questionable and corrupt corporate practices, there is a strong need felt to articulate a new sense of purpose of the firm, corporate character and culture, survival, sustainability and innovation. Thaker (2011) advocated the same view as he stated that the current management and organizational policies, principles and practices are focused on a view of self-interest. This results in socially and environmentally dysfunctional organizations. An alternative approach is workplace spirituality (Al-Qutop and Harrim, 2014). Practical implications Strategic implementation of workplace spirituality is an upcoming focus and priority area of work for human resource managers (Marques, 2005). The human resource department’s role in designing and developing strategies that embrace spirituality, with the intention of developing a culture aimed toward the successful achievement of both business and individual or personal goals, is very critical for the management. By using statistical analysis to demonstrate whether or not a relationship exists between one or more of the determinants of spirituality and one or more of the determinants of job satisfaction, leaders may be better able to understand why certain individuals are able to remain passionate about their work. Leaders can integrate the appropriate determinants that may correlate to job satisfaction into the organizational culture, resulting in improved job satisfaction for all within the organization. The outcomes can provide a significant contribution to the body of knowledge for spirituality within organizations, as well as knowledge of factors that influence job satisfaction and motivation. Social implications The inherent nature of this study is intimately connected to its objective, purpose and significance. It is also based on the fundamental realization that managers and leaders today have a larger responsibility in society, one that extends beyond their routine functions and basic tasks of running a business. Leadership decisions can and do have a profound lasting effect on the larger community and society within which they operate. This study and the methods that have been adopted for this research are intended to add to the growing body of knowledge on managerial perceptions, and implications of the process of introducing and practicing workplace spirituality. Originality/value Studies in the Indian context of workplace spirituality and outcomes are rare. Particular studies in the banking sector are lesser. This research aims at studying the link between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and OCBs, in the context of an Indian private sector bank, which is very unique. Earlier studies have tested the relationships independently, but have not examined the relationships of all three variables together.

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Syvertsen, Jennifer L. "Sharing Research, Building Possibility: Reflecting on Research with Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kenya." Human Organization 79, no. 2 (June 2020): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.83.

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Sharing our research with participants and communities is a standard and critically important ethical practice in anthropology, but do we use such opportunities to their full potential? In this article, I reflect on the possibilities generated by a community dissemination event to share my research with men who have sex with men and engage in sex work in Kisumu, Kenya. Drawing on Arjun Apaddurai’s concept of an “ethics of possibility” that pushes beyond ordinary ethical practice, I reflect upon engagement with participants in the research process and advocate for greater emphasis on research dissemination events as a strategy to make research more meaningful to communities. Although my project was initially framed around HIV, what emerged were men’s desire for spirituality, belonging, and new possibilities of inclusive citizenship that better attend to men’s health and well-being. Research dissemination creates a critical space to generate ethnographic insight and guide theoretically rich applied health research.

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Razdyiakonov, Vladislav. "The Revolution of the Spirits for the Spiritual Brotherhood: Russian Spiritualist Movement and Its Social Ideals." State Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide 38, no. 4 (2020): 318–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2020-38-4-318-342.

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The article offers a reconstruction of the social ideals of Russian spiritualists. Main sources include texts revealing spiritualists’ ideas about the structure of the spiritual world; structure and characteristics of spiritual circles; and literary works by spiritualists reflecting their social ideals. Although the social and political views of Russian spiritualists were mostly conservative, their ontological views contained elements of social radicalism. The author distinguishes between the two types of spiritualists — rationalists and traditionalists — depending on their attitude towards the Orthodox Church, Christian theology and their specific views about the spiritual world. All spiritualists viewed the society critically as gripped with disease. Rationalist spiritualism was critical towards Christian dogmatic and practice, and although its supporters advocated the preservation of the social and political status quo, they hoped for both gradual social and political transformation and the realization of social ideals in the spiritual world. The traditionalists, despite their commitment to monarchy and the Church institution, expected a millenarian overturn and thus challenged the social and political order. Overall, the spiritualist social ideals are close to communitarian social projects based upon the idea of Christian brotherhood.

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Tackney, Charles Thomas, and Imran Shah. "Authenticity/ الصحة as a criterion variable for Islam and Roman Catholic theology of the workplace analysis." Management Research Review 40, no. 8 (August 21, 2017): 907–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mrr-05-2016-0113.

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Purpose Authenticity/ الصحة (as-sehah) serves as a criterion or predictor variable for the purpose of a comparative theological investigation of employment relations parameters in light of social teachings from Sunni Islam and Roman Catholicism. Authenticity finds initial, shared significance in both religious traditions because of its critically important role in judgments concerning the legitimacy of source documents. It also stands in both traditions as an inspirational goal for human life. Design/methodology/approach Particular issues of theological method for cross-cultural analysis are addressed by the use of insight-based critical realism as a transcultural foundation. Workplace parameters, the minimal enabling conditions for the possibility of authentic employment relations, are then identified and compared. The authors explore shared expectations for authenticity enabling conditions in terms of the direct and indirect employer: those national laws, systems and traditions that condition the functional range of authenticity that can be actualized within national or other work settings as experienced in the direct employment contract. Findings The study found remarkable consistency in the minimal conditions identified by Roman Catholic and Sunni Islam social teachings for the prospects of authenticity in employment relations. These conditions addressed seven parameters: work and the concept of labor; private property; the nature of the employment contract; unions and collective bargaining; the treatment of wages; the relationship between managerial prerogative and employee participation; and the crucial role of the state as indirect employer. Practical implications Specific minimal or threshold conditions of employment are described to ensure the prospect for authenticity in modern employment relations according to religious traditions. These include just cause employment conditions, unions and collective bargaining support, some form of management consultation/Shura, a living wage and a consultative exercise of managerial prerogative. Social implications The study offers prescriptive and analytical aid to ensure assessment of circumstances fostering authenticity in employment relations. Originality/value The method and findings are a first effort to clarify thought and aid mutual understanding for inter-faith employment circumstances based on Roman Catholic and Sunni Islam social teachings through a transcultural foundation in cognitional operations. The criterion variable specification of authenticity conditions offers a fully developed basis to support further empirical research in management spirituality, corporate social responsibility and enterprise sustainability.

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Wasserman, Jason, Jeffrey Michael Clair, and Ferris J. Ritchey. "A Scale to Assess Attitudes toward Euthanasia." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 51, no. 3 (November 2005): 229–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/fghe-yxhx-qjea-mtm0.

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The topic of euthanasia has been a matter of public debate for several decades. Although empirical research should inform policy, scale measurement is lacking. After analyzing shortcomings of previous work, we offer a systematically designed scale to measure attitudes toward euthanasia. We attempt to encompass previously unspecified dimensions of the phenomenon that are central to the euthanasia debate. The results of our pretest show that our attitude towards euthanasia (ATE) scale is both reliable and valid. We delineate active and passive euthanasia, no chance for recovery and severe pain, and patient's autonomy and doctor's authority. We argue that isolating these factors provides a more robust scale capable of better analyzing sample variance. Internal consistency is established with Cronbach's alpha = .871. Construct external consistency is established by correlating the scale with other predictors such as race and spirituality.

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Claxton-Oldfield, Stephen, Megan Gallant, and Jane Claxton-Oldfield. "The Impact of Unusual End-of-Life Phenomena on Hospice Palliative Care Volunteers and Their Perceived Needs for Training to Respond to Them." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 81, no. 4 (July 22, 2018): 577–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222818788238.

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Thirty-nine hospice palliative care volunteers completed a survey examining (a) their beliefs about end-of-life phenomena (EOLP), (b) the impact of EOLP on their lives, and (c) their perceived needs for training to respond to them. Forty-nine percent of the volunteers either had personally witnessed an EOLP in their volunteer work and/or had a patient or patient’s family member report an EOLP to them. More than half of the volunteers strongly agreed or agreed that EOLP have influenced their religious beliefs and their spirituality in a positive way (53% and 59%, respectively). Eighty-nine percent of the volunteers indicated that they had never received any training about EOLP, and nearly all of the volunteers were interested in learning more about EOLP. After completing the survey, 59% of the volunteers shared stories about EOLP they had either personally witnessed or been told about. The most frequently reported experiences involved deathbed visions. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Harré, Niki, Helen Madden, Rowan Brooks, and Jonathan Goodman. "Sharing values as a foundation for collective hope." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 5, no. 2 (August 2, 2017): 342–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v5i2.742.

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A widespread “tale of terror” amongst those seeking social change is that people in modern Western societies are caught in a neo-liberal paradigm and have come to care most about materialism, individual success and status. Our research attempted to challenge this tale. Study 1 involved New Zealand participants (N = 1085) from largely, but not exclusively, left-leaning groups. We used an open-ended process to identify their “infinite” values (that which they consider of value for its own sake); and found these concerned connection to people and other life forms, expression, nature, personal strengths, vitality, and spirituality. Systems and regulations, success and status, money, ownership and domination were named as of “finite” value (of value because of what they signify or enable). These findings suggest that our participants readily distinguished between what is inherently valuable and what is of instrumental value or signifies social status. Study 2 (N = 121) investigated participants’ responses to a word cloud that displayed the infinite values identified in Study 1. These were predominantly a sense of belonging to a human community, reassurance, and feeling uplifted and hopeful. We suggest that the word cloud offered a “tale of joy” showing that, contrary to standard neo-liberal rhetoric, people do care deeply about the common good. We also suggest that such a tale is critical to social movements that depend on a sense of collective hope.

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Osi, Enrico Cirineo, and Mendiola Teng-Calleja. "Women on top: the career development journey of Filipina business executives in the Philippines." Career Development International 26, no. 2 (February 15, 2021): 140–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cdi-05-2020-0132.

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the experiences of Filipina women business executives occupying top-most leadership roles in male-dominated industries in the Philippines.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative research utilized the institutional theory and a phenomenological approach with semi-structured interviews for data collection. The seven women executives were purposively selected and interviewed in-depth. Participants were renowned leaders in six male-dominated industries in the country.FindingsThree phases – growing up years, career advancement and raising a family and becoming and being the chief executive officer (CEO) tracked the career development journey of the Filipina women business leaders that participated in the study. Cultural, organizational and familial factors emerged as contextual dimensions at each phase that the women business executives needed to navigate in their journey to the top. Six sub-themes reflect challenges in their career progression – women as in-charge of households, expectations as mothers, limited representation in the boardroom, discrimination as women leaders, women not seen as leaders and husband's ego. Four other sub-themes served as enablers – equal opportunity culture, career pathing and diversity, male mentors/role models and enlightened husbands. The CEO's personal characteristics surfaced as a critical factor – spirituality, being competitive but not ambitious, speaks her mind, can-do attitude, accountability, openness to learn and continually re-invents self.Research limitations/implicationsThe participants only included top-most Filipina women business leaders. Implications to women executives' career development in organizations are discussed.Originality/valueThis current study contributes a proposed conceptual model in the understanding of the career development journey of Filipina women executives in the Philippines where recent findings found greater recognition of their work in the corporate setting as compared to more developed Asian countries.

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Rahman, Muhammad Sabbir, Aahad M. Osman-Gani, and Murali Raman. "Destination selection for education tourism." Journal of Islamic Marketing 8, no. 3 (September 11, 2017): 373–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jima-10-2015-0080.

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Purpose The purpose of this research is to empirically examine the critical factors that are influencing international students’ perception in the selection of a destination for education tourism. Design/methodology/approach This research seeks to develop a comprehensive framework embedded with service quality, destination image and spirituality behavior. The data were collected by administering a self-administered questionnaire to a sample of 220 respondents who were studying at the universities in Peninsular Malaysia. The constructs and items used in the questionnaire were adapted from the literature review. This research applied confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings The outcome of this research indicated that there is a substantial relationship between service quality and the choice of a destination for education tourism. This research also explored that destination brand image significantly relates to the selection of a destination for education, tourism when the destination loyalty variable plays a strong mediation role. Interestingly, the direct relationship between spirituality behavior and selection of destination was not significant. On the other hand, a significant relationship was discovered between spirituality behavior and choice of destination when the tourists’ intention plays as a mediating function. Research limitations/implications First, the limitation is in the scope of this study, as only five constructs were examined. Future research may include other types of variables in exploring the antecedents of destination selection for education tourism. Second, the sample size was only 220 and respondents were restricted to only a few universities. Future research should be done on a bigger sample size and on more diverse sample. Practical implications Managers of the respective higher learning institutions need to focus on tourists’ satisfaction by providing a memorable experience. International students who have satisfactory experience with the respective higher learning institutions will spread a positive word of mouth about the destinations to other prospective foreign students. Today, tourists have a strong urge to see the spiritual side of their liveliness. Policymakers need to offer services with the comportment of the spiritual settings in their respective educational environment to extend the spiritual experience toward international students. Social implications There is a need for more research on how to build a comprehensive model for selection of a destination in educational tourism. The results of this empirical research are of particular significance to policymakers, as it better informs them as to how best to use the antecedents in designing the destination choice for education tourism to establish it as more practical regardless of the diverse spiritual beliefs. Originality/value This research is one of the initial attempts on part of the researchers in Malaysian education tourism context where spirituality has been taken into consideration.

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Krieglstein, Maryann. "Spirituality and Social Work." Dialogue and Universalism 16, no. 5 (2006): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/du2006165/641.

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Gilligan, P. "Spirituality and Social Work." British Journal of Social Work 41, no. 4 (June 1, 2011): 805–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr086.

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Gough, M. "Spirituality and Social Work." British Journal of Social Work 42, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr189.

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Scott, Daniel. "Spirituality and social work." International Journal of Children's Spirituality 16, no. 1 (February 2011): 62–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1364436x.2011.553471.

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Sheridan, M. "Spirituality and Social Work." Journal of Church and State 53, no. 2 (March 1, 2011): 317–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csr051.

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Boynton, Heather Marie. "Spirituality and Social Work." Social Work Education 31, no. 4 (June 2012): 531–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.621765.

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Zahl, Mari-Anne. "Spirituality and Social Work." Social Thought 22, no. 1 (January 2003): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j131v22n01_06.

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Hare, Jenny. "Spirituality and Social Work." Australian Social Work 67, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 604–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2014.915717.

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De Vries, Brian. "Kinship Bereavement in Later Life: Understanding Variations in Cause, Course, and Consequence." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 35, no. 1 (August 1997): 141–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/t4yb-7cgw-l8tm-cfw5.

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This discussion directs itself to a review and synthesis of the chronicles of later life kinship loss as presented in this volume. Several efforts are aimed in this direction. First, four broad generalizations about bereavement are offered: 1) Bereavement is a complex experience, 2) influenced by the context within which the loss takes place as well as 3) the nature of the lost relationship and the role the deceased played, 4) with an endpoint that is variable and unclear. The particular influences of specific losses are also addressed. Second, the empirical issues corresponding to these generalizations are discussed as are the more substantive issues of the appraisal of the loss, the role(s) of gender, and the influence of spirituality. Finally, the application of these works are identified and framed in the context of later life bereavement.

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Coholic, Diana. "Spirituality in Social Work Pedagogy." Journal of Teaching in Social Work 26, no. 3-4 (November 7, 2006): 197–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j067v26n03_13.

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Dane, Barbara. "Spirituality in Social Work Practice." Cultural Diversity & Mental Health 3, no. 2 (1997): 153–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.3.2.153.

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Rothman, Juliet. "Spirituality and Hospice Social Work." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 36, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 386–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2017.1338913.

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Hodge, David. "Conceptualizing Spirituality in Social Work." Social Thought 21, no. 1 (January 2002): 39–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j131v21n01_04.

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Praglin, Laura. "Spirituality, Religion, and Social Work:." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23, no. 4 (November 29, 2004): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j377v23n04_05.

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Seinfeld, Jeffrey. "Spirituality in Social Work Practice." Clinical Social Work Journal 40, no. 2 (March 30, 2012): 240–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10615-012-0386-1.

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Graham, John R., Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff, and John Coates. "Introduction: Social Work, Spirituality, and Social Practices." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 30, no. 3 (July 2011): 187–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2011.587378.

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Hodge, David R. "Beth Crisp, Spirituality and social work." Journal of Social Work 13, no. 5 (August 25, 2013): 551–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017313485801.

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Sangha, Dave, and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo. "Social Work, Spirituality, and Diasporic Communities." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 24, no. 4 (January 20, 2006): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j377v24n04_06.

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Phillips, Carol. "Spirituality and social work: Introducing a spiritual dimension into social work education and practice." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 26, no. 4 (March 12, 2016): 65–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol26iss4id27.

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Against a background of growing international interest in the place of spirituality in social work education and practice, this paper describes a qualitative study of the spiritual expe- riences of non-Māori social work students at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, and the application of spirituality to their practice as social workers. The study found that both the programme and Wānanga environment enhanced and deepened participants’ own spirituality and flowed through into their practice. Elements of the Wānanga programme which contributed to the students’ spiritual development are identified, along with a discussion of the influence of the bicultural nature of the programme and take pū on their practice.

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Djopkang, Jean-Djosir. "Spirituality matters in social work: connecting spirituality, religion, and practice." European Journal of Social Work 21, no. 5 (February 7, 2018): 797–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2018.1434269.

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Robson, Ed. "Spirituality Matters in Social Work (Connecting Spirituality, Religion and Practice)." Journal of Social Work Practice 31, no. 3 (October 3, 2016): 371–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2016.1218831.

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Woiwode, Christoph, Niko Schäpke, Olivia Bina, Stella Veciana, Iris Kunze, Oliver Parodi, Petra Schweizer-Ries, and Christine Wamsler. "Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection." Sustainability Science 16, no. 3 (January 19, 2021): 841–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00882-y.

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AbstractThis article provides a rationale for inner transformation as a key and hitherto underresearched dimension of sustainability transformations. Inner transformation relates to various aspects of human existence and interactions such as consciousness, mindsets, values, worldviews, beliefs, spirituality and human–nature connectedness. The article draws on Meadows’ leverage points approach, as places to intervene in a system, to reveal the relevance of inner transformation for system change towards sustainability. Based on insights from a series of dialogue and reflection workshops and a literature review, this article provides three important contributions to sustainability transformations research: first, it increases our conceptual understanding of inner transformation and its relevance for sustainability; second, it outlines concrete elements of the inner transformation-sustainability nexus in relation to leverage points; and third, it presents practical examples illustrating how to work with leverage points for supporting inner transformation. In sum, the paper develops a systematized and structured approach to understanding inner transformation, including the identification of deep, i.e., highly influential, leverage points. In addition, it critically discusses the often contentious and divergent perspectives on inner transformation and shows related practical challenges. Finally, current developments in inner transformation research as well as further research needs are identified.

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Scheitle, Christopher P. "Bringing Out the Dead: Gender and Historical Cycles of Spiritualism." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 50, no. 3 (May 2005): 237–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/kf90-qelu-fvth-1r4u.

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Interest in the spirit world has blossomed since the 1990s. Four in 10 Americans claim to have been in touch with the dead. Mainstream movies featuring ghosts have made millions, television shows featuring mediums are broadcast throughout the country, books concerning the spirit world have made the New York Times bestsellers list, and the deceased have been increasingly put to work by Madison Avenue. Developed here is a theory of the relations between historical cycles of spiritualism, women's interest in that movement, and how that is related to women's visibility and power within society. It is argued that women have historically had a fairly constant interest in the spirit world. Spiritualism's current popularity is a result of women having more power and visibility, giving the spirit world a prominence in society that it previous only had during spiritualism “boom” periods when men became interested.

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Callahan, Ann M. "Social Work and Spirituality (Transforming Social Work Practice), by Ian Mathews." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 29, no. 3 (August 9, 2010): 271–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2010.495635.

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Trujillo Ellis, Bernadette, Patricia Trujillo, and Patricia Anne Davis. "Reconstituting Youth Space in New Mexico: The Space Youth Occupy. Education Policy. Clarity." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 13, no. 3 (December 18, 2019): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.13.3.456.

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Because of the funding decisions being made in New Mexico related to public education, working as an educator has become physically, psychically, and spiritually demanding for the lead author, Trujillo Ellis. The lead author seeks clarity in understanding New Mexico youth space, or the conditions of New Mexico youths’ lives, that better equips her, as a reflective practitioner, to “make decisions about teaching and learning based upon moral and political implications” (Olan, 2019, p. 173). New Mexican youth space is contextualized in terms of demographics, outcomes related to well-being, the fiscal landscape of the state, and the policies that govern public education. The lead author utilizes the first four tenets of critical race theory (CRT): 1) Racism is normal, 2) Interest convergence or material determinism, 3) Social construction of race, and 4) Intersectionality and anti-essentialism to support reflection and analysis of her experiences as an educator and instructional coach within the educational system in New Mexico. Co-authors, Trujillo and Davis, provide counter-narratives through the final tenet, 5) Unique voice of color, related to their work with vulnerable youth in New Mexico. Conclusions drawn provide clarity and insight that support the lead author in making decisions related to teaching and learning, as well as indicating efforts that broaden critical consciousness and praxis to support positive change.

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Bochkareva, Olga V. "Musical discourse in the conditions of modern media space." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 1, no. 118 (2021): 170–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2021-1-118-170-177.

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Musical culture plays an important role in the formation and development of the individual and is conceived as a space of dialogue, a space of spirituality. The media image of real reality formed in the media arises on the basis of the collectively developed semantic field of the presented information, which fixes the values of the perceiving audience in the process of their actualization. The mechanism of valuable media space functioning is available to relevant persons with their understanding of the cultural, political, social situation that recognizes the majority of the audience, individual vision of the leader (real or imaginary) elevated to the rank of Zeitgeist. The semblance of reality, a simulacrum is born when a real event in the consumer's mind is not comparable in scale to how it is presented in the media: complex life problems are simplified, overgrown with an imaginary value context, and the insolubility of contradictions is removed, offered in the form of a ready-made answer in an accessible package, thereby real reality is mythologized. An important place in the media space is occupied by modern musical discourse, which performs an informational and evaluative function based on the use of certain language means in music reviews, digests, essays, creative portraits of musicians, art chronicles, reports, music programs, documentary audio and video films, etc. Musical discourse in the modern media space is presented in three categories: professional, profane and mixed. The phenomena occurring in the modern media space, such as the growth of fan culture, the abundance of blogs, bloggers, etc., indicate the predominance of non-professional content over professional, the expansion of which requires solving new ethical, philosophical, educational and upbringing problems. Music programs broadcast by the Kultura channel: «Absolute Hearing» (presenter – Gennady Yanin, «Not dull Classics» (presenter – Sati Spivakova) etc., restore thesocial significance of art on the basis of respect for the creators and their work, revive the educational principles of domestic music-critical journalism, perform an important function of «service to music».

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Hurst, Jane. "Disability and Spirituality in Social Work Practice." Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation 6, no. 1-2 (April 26, 2007): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j198v06n01_10.

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Ai, Amy L., Kristin Moultine, Joseph F. Picciano, Biren Ratnesh Nagda, and Linda Hendrickson Thurman. "Integrating Spirituality into the Social Work Curriculum." Journal of Teaching in Social Work 24, no. 1-2 (May 19, 2004): 105–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j067v24n01_07.

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Coholic, Diana. "Incorporating Spirituality in Feminist Social Work Perspectives." Affilia 18, no. 1 (February 2003): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109902239096.

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