Joseph's Personal Spirituality and Adversity Quotient Based on Genesis 37-50: A Content Analysis of Literature

Success is everyone's dream, but not a few people retreat and even fail because they are not ready to face the process of achieving that success. Joseph is the son who is dearest to his father, but this makes his brother hate him. Joseph is a character in the Bible, and Joseph realized that all the thoughts of his brothers, all the difficulties he experienced, were solely in God's design, and God had a good purpose in the difficulties he experienced. In a sense, Joseph's personal spirituality determines how he can have an adversity quotient so that Joseph became a tough person in facing all the challenges of his life. This study aims to analyze personal spirituality and adversity quotient. The research method used is content analysis. Research questions: what is the relationship between personal spirituality and Adversity Quotient? and to what extent can personal spirituality make someone strong in AQ? The result showed that personal spirituality and adversity quotient is related to one another. Based on the text analysis, it was found that the relationship between personal spirituality and adversity quotient on content: personal spirituality that comes from family influence, personal spirituality that comes from character, Joseph's spirituality in facing challenges (family, female, wealth and power), and personal spirituality in the knowledge of God and understanding His plan thus forming his adversity quotient.

Saint Anselm’s Prayer to the Holy Cross

Within the then 1000-year-old tradition of reverence for the crucifix, Saint Anselm’s Prayer to the Holy Cross finds a special place. While such a prayer as his would not be considered novel either in England or in the world of Christianity, it clearly bears the stamp of his own particular style and elegance and was guided by his own personal spirituality. This article will begin by giving a critical analysis of the structure and major themes of the prayer. It will then go on to consider this prayer in comparison to Anselm’s other prayers, with an added note on the place of the cross in Anselm’s other writings. It will be seen that Anselm’s Prayer to the Holy Cross is not simply different from his other prayers, but it stands out as unique in his collection of prayers and is arguably the most contemplative of all his prayers.

Religion, Creative Practice and Aestheticisation in Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files

In 2018, Nick Cave launched The Red Hand Files website, where fans ask personal questions and the artist responds. This ongoing dialogue presents a unique iteration of religious visibility at the nexus of religion and the arts. Here, Cave articulates his personal religiosity in the wake of his son’s death, detailing the role of creative practice, performance and communication. Cave’s personal spirituality engages processes of aestheticisation that awaken experiences of inspiration and mystery. The epistemological orientation of alternative spirituality that values encounters with the ineffable and seeks to be free from static beliefs had previously found its antithesis in organised religion, but more recently, the fervent dogmatism of political correctness has applied its own pressure. As an example of religious aestheticisation within the tradition of alternative spirituality, The Red Hand Files exhibits the continued salience of this worldview despite the countervailing influence of politically correct culture.

La búsqueda espiritual a través del turismo. Su articulación desde el lado de la oferta

Desde mediados del siglo pasado hemos asistido a una ampliación de las posibilidades turísticas de forma creciente; han aparecido nuevos tipos o han diversificado su oferta (histórico, cultural, ambiental, étnico, etc.), ampliando así su campo de acción. Queremos pues, reflexionar sobre un nuevo tipo de turismo que se refiere a la circulación mundial de personas que en sus desplazamientos recorren las redes espirituales en busca de nuevas experiencias de lo sagrado y de la vivencia espiritual. Nos hemos acercado a este proceso de reencantamiento del mundo a partir de los centros de terapias holísticos que son en gran medida los nodos que articulan esta nueva espiritualidad transversal que se mueve por los circuitos que conectan culturas indígenas con redes globales y que está generando unas nuevas coordenadas de lo que puede entenderse por religioso. From mid twentieth century we have assisted to a widening in ever-growing tourist possibilities; new ways of travelling have appeared or have diversified their offers (including historical, cultural, environmental, ethnic, etc.) widening thus their action field. We would like to pay attention to a new tourist trend, referred to those who travel around the nets New Age, searching new sacred experiences and spiritual living. We have approached this new process of re-enchantment of the world from the alternative, holistic therapy centers, and all of this kind, which are up to a certain level the links that join this new holistic, transversal and personal spirituality that goes around the places that connect indigenous cultures with global nets, which is creating new coordinates that can be understood as religious.