spirituality

Examples of spirituality in the following topics:

• The Value of Spirituality and Faith in Managing Stress

  • Spirituality and faith practices can improve skills for coping with stress and raise levels of happiness and general well-being.
  • Spirituality can be thought of as the search for the sacred or that which is set apart from the ordinary.
  • The practice of spirituality involves veneration of something ethereal and outside of the self.
  • Faith is trust or confidence in a doctrine, or holding a specific personal or spiritual belief.
  • Spirituality is often practiced in groups that allow for social support and reaffirming contact with others.

• Animism

  • Animism is the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, either intrinsically or because spirits inhabit them.
  • Animism refers to the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, either intrinsically or because spirits inhabit them for a period of time.
  • While animists believe everything to be spiritual in nature, they do not necessarily see the spiritual nature of everything in existence as being united (monism), the way pantheists do.
  • In pantheism, everything shares the same spiritual essence—there are no distinct spirits and/or souls.

• Animism

  • Animism is the religious belief attributing a spiritual essence to natural phenomena, including animals, plants, and inanimate objects.
  • Animism is the religious belief of attributing a spiritual essence to natural phenomena, including animals, plants, and sometimes inanimate objects.
  • In terms of its features, animism is defined as a set of beliefs based on the existence of non-human "spiritual beings" or similar kinds of embodied principles.
  • However, the common element among them is that they depict natural elements (animals, nature, earth) as spiritual entities.
  • Some, like the Aztecs, are capable of a god's destructive violence ; while others, such as the Hindu, hold the cow sacred as a spiritual symbol .

• Meaning in Nonrepresentational Art

  • Nonrepresentational art has often been explored by artists as a means to spiritual expression.
  • As an early modernist in search of new modes of visual expression and spiritual expression, he theorized (as did contemporary occultists and theosophists) that pure visual abstraction had corollary vibrations with sound and music.
  • He posited that pure abstraction could express pure spirituality.
  • Piet Mondrian's art was also related to his spiritual and philosophical studies.
  • In 1908 he became interested in the theosophical movement launched by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who believed that it was possible to attain a knowledge of nature more profound than that provided by empirical means, and much of Mondrian's work for the rest of his life was inspired by his search for that spiritual knowledge.

• Sacred Ceremonies and Pilgrimages

  • Pilgrimages and sacred ceremonies are important events in many spiritual traditions around the world.
  • A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.
  • Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: for example, the place of birth or death of founders or saints; the place of saints' spiritual awakening or connection with the divine; locations where miracles were performed or witnessed; locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed"; or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.
  • Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit.
  • Many take these journeys in order to be healed, have questions answered, or to achieve some other spiritual benefit.

• The Nature of Religion

  • Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values.
  • Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
  • Edward Burnett Tylor defined religion as simply "the belief in spiritual beings. " He argued, in 1871, that narrowing the definition to mean the belief in a supreme deity or judgment after death would exclude many peoples from the category of religious and thus "has the fault of identifying religion rather with particular developments than with the deeper motive which underlies them. " He also argued that the belief in spiritual beings exists in all known societies.

• African Art and the Spirit World

  • Culture and spirituality share space and are deeply intertwined in most African cultures, which have been heavily influenced by the introduction of Christianity and Islam during the era of European colonization.
  • Statues and sculptures are also used to represent or connect to spiritual forces.
  • For example, Bambara statuettes, such as the Chiwara, are used as spiritually charged objects during ritual.
  • The Kono and Komo societies use similar statues to serve as receptacles for spiritual forces.
  • Despite the drastic decrease in native African religions, some modern art in Africa has worked to reincorporate traditional spiritual beliefs.

• Religious Denominations

  • In other cases, denominations form very rapidly, from a split or schism in an existing denomination, or if people share an experience of spiritual revival or spiritual awakening and subsequently choose to form a new denomination.
  • At a broader level, the term "interfaith dialogue" refers to cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions and spiritual or humanistic beliefs—at both an individual and institutional level.

• The Bhakti Movement

  • The Bhakti Movement resulted in a mass of devotional literature, music, and art that gave India renewed spiritual impetus.
  • The Bhakti movement is a Hindu religious movement in which the main spiritual practice is loving devotion among the Shaivite and Vaishnava saints.
  • Altogether, Bhakti resulted in a mass of devotional literature, music, and art that has enriched the world and given India renewed spiritual impetus, one eschewing unnecessary ritual and artificial social boundaries.

• Prayers

  • Prayer is an invocation or an act that seeks to activate a rapport with a deity or a spiritual entity through deliberate communication.
  • Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with a deity, an object of worship, or a spiritual entity through deliberate communication.
  • Various spiritual traditions offer a wide variety of devotional acts.