Therapy As Spiritual Liberation

Education as Liberation?

This paper studies the political and social impacts of increased education by utilizing a randomized girls' merit scholarship programme in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary schooling. Consistent with the view that education empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority, we find that the programme reduced the acceptance of domestic violence and political authority. Young women in p...

Ushahidi as a Liberation technoLogy

Occupation as spiritual activity.

Although spirituality is rarely explicitly mentioned in the occupational therapy literature, it is implied as an interwoven part of the human system. This article explores the meaning of occupation in the context of sociological and Judeo-Christian theological frameworks and the meaning of spirituality in the occupational therapy clinic. A case is made for acknowledging spirituality in clinical...

Liberation as Revolutionary Praxis: Rethinking Buddhist Materialism

Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “freedom” and “agency,” the thought traditions of Asian Buddhism have for many centuries struggled with questions related to the issue of “liberation”—along with its fundamental ontological, epistemological and ethical implications. With the development of Marxist thought in the...

The Spiritual Exercises and Psychoanalytic Therapy

A COMPARISON between the systems for the transformation of attitudes, feelings, and behaviour developed by two men so apparently disparate in outlook as St Ignatius of Loyola and Sigmund Freud might be expected to reveal nothing but contrasts. But we are so steeped in the, details of the religious and philosophical controversies of the last few centuries, that we are likely to overlook the comm...