The Making of a Modern Religious Seeker

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-64
Author(s):  
David J. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
College Education ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

This chapter places Yogananda’s spiritual development in the context of Indian modernity, with rapid travel, exposure to diverse traditions, and awareness of the outside world—particularly the U.S. and the larger West. The chapter examines his childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, focusing on the spiritual journey that culminated in his decision to become a swami under the leadership of a guru. He grew up in Kolkata, influenced by the writings of the Bengali Renaissance who opposed British imperialism. His connection to modernity continued with his college education and adoption of modern Hinduism, a framework that severed belief from its historic embeddedness in land, caste, life stage, and gender. This universalizing of Hinduism paved the way for Yogananda’s American ministry as a Hindu missionary.

Nebraska, New England, New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-59
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Homestead
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Family History ◽  
New England ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Willa Cather ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
College Education ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood

This chapter describes Edith Lewis’s family history, childhood, and education as a background to her first meeting with Willa Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903. Because of Lewis’s deeply rooted New England family history, her Nebraska childhood, her elite eastern college education, and her plans to move to New York to pursue literary work, Cather found powerfully concentrated in Lewis two geographically located versions of the past she valued: the Nebraska of her own childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, and a New England–centered literary culture she encountered through reading. Cather also glimpsed in Lewis the future to which she herself aspired, the glittering promise of literary New York.

scholarly journals A Bond Stronger Than Marriage: Discipleship in the Works of Christopher Isherwood

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Kinga Latała
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper is concerned with Christopher Isherwood’s portrayal of his guru-disciple relationship with Swami Prabhavananda, situating it in the tradition of discipleship, which dates back to antiquity. It discusses Isherwood’s (auto)biographical works as records of his spiritual journey, influenced by his guru. The main focus of the study is My Guru and His Disciple, a memoir of the author and his spiritual master, which is one of Isherwood’s lesser-known books. The paper attempts to examine the way in which a commemorative portrait of the guru, suggested by the title, is incorporated into an account of Isherwood’s own spiritual development. It discusses the sources of Isherwood’s initial prejudice against religion, as well as his journey towards embracing it. It also analyses the facets of Isherwood and Prabhavananda’s guru-disciple relationship, which went beyond a purely religious arrangement. Moreover, the paper examines the relationship between homosexuality and religion and intellectualism and religion, the role of E. M. Forster as Isherwood’s secular guru, the question of colonial prejudice, as well as the reception of Isherwood’s conversion to Vedanta and his religious works.

Estimating the Returns to Professional Certifications and Licenses in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Renski
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
College Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Professional Certification ◽  
Advanced Degrees ◽  
Earnings Gap ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The U.S

This study uses recently released Current Population Survey microdata to estimate the earnings premium associated with professional certification and licenses. The author finds that full-time manufacturing workers with a certification or license earn close to $200 more in median weekly earnings compared to those without. However, this does not account for differences in pay that are associated with worker endowments, such as education and gender. A Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition is used to distinguish the portion of the earnings gap that is attributable to the credential from the portion associated with endowments. Endowments explain 62% of the total earnings gap, meaning that the actual returns to a certification or license are closer to $70 per week. The author also finds that workers with no high school or college education receive a relatively larger increase in weekly earnings, compared to those with more advanced degrees.

Religiosity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Implications for Identity Formation

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Glover
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Northwest Arkansas ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Main Effects

Based on previous correlations between religiosity and descriptions of character traits related to meaning and purpose in life described by Gladding, et al. in 1981, this study hypothesized significant differences in religiosity scores as a function of age. Variables of religious group and gender were also included. Subjects included 147 adolescents and young adults, 70 males and 77 females, largely Caucasian, attending fundamental, moderate, and liberal churches in Central and Northwest Arkansas. A 3 × 3 × 2 analysis of variance yielded significant main effects for age group and religious group but not gender. No interactions were found. Findings suggest relationships between religiosity and identity formation during adolescence.

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