Re-souling spirituality: redefining the spiritual dimension in schools

Assessing African American Spirituality With Spiritual Ecomaps

While there is increasing awareness that spirituality is a central dimension of human existence, there are few assessment instruments that operationalize spiritual strengths in a clinically useful manner. Further, instruments tailored specifically for African Americans, the population for whom spirituality may be most salient, have been almost completely lacking in the literature. Corresponding...

Re-redefining Foxp3 function

Including more copper in your everyday diet could be good for your heart, according to a study on page 657. Jiang et al. now find that dietary supplementation of copper offsets the effects of stress on an overworked heart by preventing its enlargement. Copper-carrying proteins disarm oxygen radicals and power electron transport. Humans with copper deficiency have increased cholesterol levels, c...

Spiritual Episteme: Sensemaking in the framework of Organizational Spirituality

The Natural Basis for Spirituality: Redefining the Inner Light

In past centuries, the evidence for God's existence seemed direct because a spiritual being was the only way to make sense of our world in its exquisite detail, beauty, and purpose. For uncountable millennia, it seemed obvious that the rising sun required a God to pull it across the sky. Springtime buds and flowers somehow had the spirit of an all-powerful God, who controlled the entire world a...

The re-humanization of the executive nurse's job: a focus on the spiritual dimension.

This work synthesizes the authors' views on the damages to the development of human capital in health services, which are caused by the disregard to the human spiritual dimension. New administration paradigms related to the development of spirituality are pointed out. Considering that the spiritual dimension has a systemic nature and that, by means of ethics and esthetics, it harmonizes all of ...