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Remembrance as Decolonial Practice
This chapter explores how remembrance can serve as a practice in the development of a Puerto Rican consciousness essential in decolonizing...
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The Practice of Prophecy in Contemporary Pentecostalism
In this chapter, the practice of Prophecy within South African Pentecostalism is conceptualised and discussed to apply it to the South African...
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Christian Devotional Practice in Contemporary Africa
Contemporary Christian devotional practices vary widely across the continent, sharing some features across the entire religion while also clearly...
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Real Presence and Absent Bodies: Sacramental Practice Today
This article begins with a consideration of the sacrament as the locus or epitome of real presence and the crucial role of the body. Sacraments, as...
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The Lotus Sūtra in Practice
In this chapter, we will look at how Nichiren interpreted the Lotus Sūtra in relation to other Buddhist schools against a complex social-political...
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Service as Spiritual Practice in the BAPS Swaminarayan Tradition
From its inception over two centuries ago, the Swaminarayan Sampradaya has emphasized the interdependence of spirituality and service. BAPS...
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Law’s Joy: Celebrating the Study and Practice of Law
This chapter explores and contrasts the thought of Professor Robert Cover and Rabbi Sacks on finding joy within the law. When approached as an object...
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Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part Two: Patterns of Practice and Identity
This chapter addresses the ways in which diverse responses to Islam’s message of tawhid, nubuwwa and qiyama led to the emergence of important Islamic...
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A Spiritual Practice Model: The Transformation of Midlife Christian Professionals in Hong Kong
Achieving social transformation requires leadership from various sectors of society. Leadership involves more than just knowledge, technique, and...
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Adat Perpatih in Malaysia: Nature, History, Practice, and Contemporary Issues
This chapter explores the nature and evolution of adat perpatih, the traditional matrilineal system found primarily across Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia....
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The Outrageous Idea of Christian Student Affairs: How Christian Chief Student Affairs Officers Envision Their Practice
Despite a growing body of literature depicting specific aspects of a Christian approach to student affairs, a discipline-wide theological vision for...
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Acem and the Psychology of Meditation: The Inner History of a Living Practice
This chapter explores the inner history of the Norwegian organisation Acem, the largest homegrown school of meditation in the Nordic countries, now...
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Chance, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Implications of Paleontological Practice
For several decades, a debate has been waged over how to interpret the significance of fossils from the Burgess Shale and Cambrian Explosion. Stephen...
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Nature Connection as Spirituality, Wellbeing Practice, and Subjective Activism
Activities for a deepened nature connection are promoted as ways to increase personal wellbeing and as a solution to the ecological crisis. This...
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Interrogating Hospitality : Toward a Decolonized Practice of Interfaith Spiritual Care
This chapter offers a theoretical exploration of Interfaith Spiritual Care (ISC) and focuses on answering several key questions related to the...
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Reweaving Spheres: Towards an Ultimate Meaning of Practice
It is often assumed that by definition the nonreligious do not have a sense of ultimate meaning. Conversely, this chapter shows that community...
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Do Gaga, Be Well? Well-Being as Intersectional Dispositif in the Neo-spiritual Israeli Movement Practice Gaga
With late modernity, “religion” has changed again in manifold ways its cultural shape, partly towards a preference for experiential embodied...
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Shi‘a Islam in Practice
To be a “Shi‘at Ali” means to follow closely in the footsteps of ‘Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad. For Shi‘is, ‘Ali was the...
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Bogadi Practice and the Place of Women in the Botswana Society
This chapter critically examines bogadi (bride price) practice and its effects on the place of women in Botswana. Considering that it is a...