... “myself”; “my faith in God gives me strength,” while others spoke of it indirectly by interpreting their self ( Jung 2005 ) when speaking about clothing, religious practices (e.g. fasting or prayer), bodily intimacy, gender and sexuality, faith, spirituality, affiliation, and religious symbols...

... the weakening of personal religiosity. The apparent persistence of belief in God conceals erosion in its substance, strength, salience, and stability. The levels of religiosity and spirituality among the religiously unaffiliated are declining, notwithstanding the rapid expansion in their numbers. Moreover...

... Study (NCT02156102) were used for this analysis. The relationships between religious/spirituality measures (religious attendance, self-reported spirituality, religious saliency, coping, and support) and SCD outcomes (disease severity, depression, and pain scores) were analyzed through bivariate...

...-reported spirituality, and religiousness of the participants. Moreover, participants were asked if they recognized the situation described in the vignette from their daily work. Qualitative data analysis was guided by reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) by Braun and Clarke (2021). ²⁰ Overall...

... that ‘religious’ phenomena can only be understood in a specially ‘religious’ way (that is, distinct from all other human, social, or natural sciences), or that human beings are, in some fundamental sense, ‘spiritual’ or ‘religious’ beings requiring a uniquely religious method or mode of enquiry. But how does...

... as perplexed affirmation. In this state, one has difficulty inhabiting, of being fully present to, an experience of the sacred, an experience of God. In some ways, perplexed affirmation seems to be a product of cultural shifts toward what is spiritual but not religious. Here, openness toward possibilities...