Procesy s katolickými duchovními a členy řádů projednávané Krajským soudem v Ústí nad Labem v letech 1953-1960 by Ivana Hrachová

“…All of them were sentenced to confinement and their spiritual activities were interrupted or even precluded. …”
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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: geschiedenis en bevrijding by H. Welzen

“… This first article of a series of three is about the spiritual nature of the gospel of Luke as a historiography. …”
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ELEMENTS D’ORGANISATION DE L’ESPACE DU SUD DE LA BUCOVINE by DRAGOŞ BAROIU, PAUL RĂZVAN ŞERBAN

“…Featuring original identity and a degree of coherence, the Bucovinean cultural space is tantamount to a kind of community spiritual fulfillment, unfortunately severed at regional level. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…Although rehabilitated since the 1960s, Art Nouveau remains a formidable moment of aesthetic and social utopia whose spiritual foundations remain unclear, due in particular to the lack of primary sources. …”
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RETHINKING HOMO AFRICANUS IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE: by A.R. Brunsdon

“…Current day Homo africanus hence calls for a pastoral care of hope to better meet the spiritual needs of African believers, against the background of socio-political change. …”
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Mission to the Wounded Youth: Scripture Union’s Evangelistic Approaches in Senior High School in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana by D. Awuah-Gyawu, P. White, A. Cloete

“…Empirical data were collected through SU’s institutional records, interviews, and participant observations to investigate how SU addresses the spiritual, physical, and social challenges of SHS students through evangelism. …”
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The Problems of Teaching the Basics of Secular Ethics to Pedagogic Students by L. V. Shcheglova

“…The subject is practical rather than descriptive, focused on the spiritual work, and teaching how to live in harmony with themselves and the surrounding world. …”
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Closing gaps in Open Distance Learning for theology students by E. Oliver

“…Student-centredness and blended learning are the main drivers behind the intense evaluation and planned upgrading of the courses taught within the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology. The student profile showed that our students are indeed a unique group with diverse interests and expectations from the theological courses for which they enrolled. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…It takes as its paradigm the life and writings of Thomas Merton (Fr Louis), an American Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who became one of the most widely-read and influential spiritual writers as well as Christian social commentators of the mid-twentieth century. …”
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Liturgical reform in the "breaking of the bread" in the Lord's Supper in the Palatinate and its resonance in the Heidelberg Catechism by E. de Boer

“…Changes in form reflect a changed spirituality. In the reformation of the sixteenth century the practice of the distribution of individual consecrated oblates to the kneeling communicant was replaced in the Palatinate by the breaking of a loaf of bread and the distribution of pieces to the congregation who received it standing or sitting. …”
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Latin-Byzantine artistic interactions and the church of Saint Basil in Mržep (Montenegro) by Bacci Michele

“…The analysis provided here emphasizes the scarcity of indications about the impact of the latter’s resolutions on the arts and proposes an alternative interpretation that associates the choice of specific forms with the devotional strategies worked by Stefan Kalođurđević for his and his family’s spiritual health.…”
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Identity and community in South African congregations by W. J. Schoeman

“…They have a strong bond with the congregation, but the preferred role of the congregation is to provide in the spiritual needs of the attenders. The engagement with the community is not so important for the attenders; in fact, the majority of them are not involved in the community. …”
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Allured by Satan, the World and the Flesh: Representations of Temptation in Medieval English Drama by Pınar Taşdelen

“…Accordingly, this article aims to analyse the dramatic representations of the temptations by medieval playwrights with references to specific mystery and morality plays in order to reveal how spiritual and earthly temptation is handled in the plays. …”
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'n Hoofstuk in die (outo)biografie van die predikant (pastor?) by J-A. van den Berg

“… This article makes a further contribution (chapter) to the existing debate (book) about the office, personality and spirituality of the pastor. Voices from literature, those of various pastors (biographical) and that of the author (autobiographical) direct the process of Participatory Action Research and supply the text. …”
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Analysis of the Relationship of Video Text and Urban Image Communication Based on the Calculation Method of Wedge Diffraction in Geometrical Optics by Qi Sun

“…City image reflects a city’s comprehensive competitiveness and is also an important indicator of a city’s spiritual civilization and urbanization process. A good city image is an intangible asset of a city, which can contribute to the political, economic, cultural, and social construction of a city and create more value for the city. …”
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Reassembling and remembering - the politics of reconciliation in South Africa by J. Kruger

“…The latter notion is understood in a Platonic-Augustinian fashion – following the interpretation of the contemporary philosophical-theological movement of Radical Orthodoxy – as a diffuse recognition of the other within the self, whereby the politics of reconciliation is, in an important sense, broadened to encompass the interior, psychic and, ultimately, spiritual aspects of the relation between the self and the other. …”
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In Search of Inner Wisdom: Guided Mindfulness Meditation in the Context of Suicide by Liora Birnbaum, Aiton Birnbaum

“…Spiritual concerns are highly relevant, but often ignored, in psychotherapy in general and in suicide in particular. …”
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Walter Pater et la vieillesse : humanité et esthétique de la culture by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Old worn stones, old aesthetic forms are for future generations witnesses of immemorial times, allowing Pater's nineteenth-century arts critic to spiritually restore the past and contribute to the development of culture thoughout the ages.…”
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Discrete Dynamic Modeling Analysis of Rural Revitalization and Ecotourism Sustainable Prediction Based on Big Data by Yao Tang

“…With the development of modern rural tourism, it has become people’s spiritual demand to deeply tap the characteristic rural culture and continuously enhance the attraction of rural tourism. …”
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Godsdiens: middel tot verslawing of tot heling? by W. C. Coetzer

“…Factors which render people vulnerable to spiritual addiction are put on the table. Similarities between a dysfunctional family system and a dysfunctional church system as well as parallels between alcoholic families and dysfunctional Christian families play a significant role in this respect. …”
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