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Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
James W. Fowler,Robin W. Levin +1 more
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The article was published on 1995-09-15 and is currently open access. It has received 895 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Faith.read more
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Conceptualizing Religion and Spirituality: Points of Commonality, Points of Departure
Peter C. Hill,Kenneth I. Pargament,Ralph W. Hood,Michael E. McCullough,James P. Swyers,David B. Larson,Brian J. Zinnbauer +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a set of criteria that recognize the constructs' conceptual similarities and dissimilarities are proposed as benchmarks for judging the value of existing definitions of spirituality and religiousness.
Religious Struggle as a Predictor of Mortality Among Medically Ill Elderly Patients
TL;DR: Elderly ill men and women who experience a religious struggle with their illness appear to be at increased risk of death, even after controlling for baseline health, mental health status, and demographic factors.
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Lifestyle and Mental Health.
TL;DR: In the 21st century, therapeutic lifestyles may need to be a central focus of mental, medical, and public health and the many implications of contemporary lifestyles and TLCs for individuals, society, and health professionals are explored.
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What is Spiritual Intelligence
TL;DR: This inquiry into spiritual intelligence suggests that it is one of several types of intelligence and that it can be developed relatively independently as mentioned in this paper, which is the case of many aspects of human intelligence.
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Stories of commitment : The psychosocial construction of generative lives
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the internalized life stories of 40 highly generative and 30 less generative adults with similar demographic profiles to determine the extent to which the two groups constructed different identities, and found that the highly-generative adults were more likely to reconstruct the past and anticipate the future as variations on a prototypical commitment story in which the protagonist (a) enjoys an early family blessing or advantage, (b) is sensitized to others' suffering at an early age, (c) is guided by a clear and compelling personal ideology that remains stable over time, (d) transforms