Running Head: LITERATURE REVIEW: DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY 1
LITERATURE REVIEW: DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY 6
FAITH AND SPRITUALITY DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION
Based on your experience in higher education (either as a practitioner or as a student):
· Do you feel the literature covers all the bases needed to adequately explain this development?
· What does your personal/professional experience tell you that the literature might not clearly illustrate?
· Why is awareness of these additional concepts important?
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In addition to this assignment, add another two sources to your literature review .
Use this assignment to better inform your working literature review.
· 3 – 5 word doc pages in length
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· References properly formatted in APA 6th edition on Reference page (if applicable)
RESPONSE FROM INSTRUCTOR. FOR THIS LIT REVIEW ATTACHED BELOW
There is nothing wrong with this lit review, but I’d like to see more connection to what the literature says as to why this development (and support for it) is important. This lit review focuses primarily on the history, not application. I think you will find focusing on application a bit more beneficial as we get into additional components of the capstone.
Literature Review: Development of Faith and Spirituality
Faith and other spirituality have caused wars, discussions, and massacres from the beginning of time. Thinking back, clash, for the most part, starts when gatherings of individuals have varying otherworldly convictions. While this issue has improved all through time, as the general acknowledgment of decent variety has extended, it is as yet a common reason for strife today. The movement of religion since forever can be intently inspected by understanding the social atmosphere in some random period. Starting in 1000 amid the High Middle Ages and advancing to the Reformation, one can look at the move in religious other spirituality and faith. While different spirituality and religion are frequently close to home points, one can look at the ordinary convictions of a territory. While in the High Middle Ages one didn’t have the privilege to pick their very own religious way, as time advances, that extravagance turns out to be increasingly typical.
From 1000-1300, religion was a remarkable piece of day by day life for individuals of the High Middle Ages. Right now the “Christian church was the focal point of network life” enabling natives to assemble around religious assets (McKay & Wood, 2019). Individuals likewise reinforced with their cleric since he “frequently worked in the fields with the general population,” putting everybody on a similar dimension. Mass was a remarkable piece of every week except right now it was discussed in Latin although most of the residents did not know the language. This incredibly added to individuals’ association with religion since they for the most part gone to Mass as a constant everyday practice and not for any close to the home feeling of other spirituality. Because of the way that they couldn’t comprehend the Mass implied that their own different spirituality was not reliable. Additionally, individuals mainly learned scriptural stories through “the depictions on the congregation dividers” rather than their very personal profound encounters (McKay & Wood, 2019). In this manner, while day by day life rotated around religious exercises and occasions, individuals did not have an individual association with their faith. Religion had an influence in their day by day life since they had no real option except to go to Christian based occasions, yet the quality of their own faith was very feeble. This way, individuals were not picking which faith was essential to them; they were simply following the group and accepting what they were advised to take. This attitude of religion was regular in this timeframe, and the independence of religion did not happen until nearer to the fifteenth century, amid the Reconstruction.
Individuals in the mid-sixteenth century were extraordinarily devout yet additionally started to scrutinize the Roman Catholic Church. Quite a bit of this originated from anticlericalism, or “resistance to the pastorate” (McKay & Wood, 2019). Individuals were angry because ministry individuals were improper, insensible and holding numerous positions. These reactions of the ministry enabled Martin Luther’s plans to spread quickly. Martin Luther’s investigations enabled him to comprehend the significance of faith. Protestant idea trusted that “salvation drops by faith alone, regardless of acts of kindness or the holy observances.” This genuinely tangled with customary Catholic conviction of the seven holy observances. For Luther, “daily religious practice, visit admissions, and fasting gave him minimal otherworldly harmony (Stephenson & Berry, 2015). He kept saying that faith is a blessing and not given to the individuals who implore, quickly or go to administrations more. This realized the single side to religion, accentuating the person’s association with God, and not religious conventions.
Furthermore, Luther disdained the clearance of guilty pleasures since he accepted there was no real way to pay for the pardoning of sins. This conviction formally started the Reformation with the posting of his 95 Theses. His proposals were initially imprinted in Latin; however then meant German, enabling most of the individuals to peruse and get them (Zinnbauer & Pargament, 2015). The way that they were imprinted in the vernacular made Luther’s conviction across the board as he picked up an incredible gathering of devotees; something that would have been unimaginable in earlier hundreds of years. With this came a massive change in how individuals saw religion yet additionally caused religious pressure in numerous nations. Martin Luther caused commotion on philosophical terms as well as on issues of “riches, influence and fundamental structure” (Flannelly, Weaver & Costa, 2014). Protestant idea likewise joined adherents by expressing that a congregation ought to be an “otherworldly brotherhood of devotees” (Oman, 2018). This changed the mindset of religious organizations, making them all the more neighborly and joined rather than one individual lecturing an expansive gathering of individuals. Martin Luther’s beliefs drastically influenced how individuals saw religion and what they ought to accept. It started the individual voyage one has with faith rather than solid masses of individuals compelled to tune in to similar messages every week. With the official acknowledgment of Lutheranism in 1555, nations were permitted to pick among Catholicism and Lutheranism, a noteworthy advance in the adventure to autonomous faith and other spirituality.
What I have realized through the investigation of religion in history is how unimaginably fortunate we are present to face a daily reality such that we are each permitted to have our own thoughts of faith and other spirituality. While Luther and Erasmus were uncommon in their time, these days’ individuals generally can trust whatever they pick. I particularly appreciate the independence of faith since I don’t trust it is satisfactory for anybody to advise someone else what to put stock in (Johnstone et al., 2015). Spirituality is something unimaginably close to home and in this way should be an individual adventure for each individual. Experiencing childhood in an interfaith family, I could watch two unique belief systems. I trust this has affected my perspectives on religion since I comprehend that one’s religious convictions just straightforwardly have an effect on them self. Watching my folks join both Catholic and Jewish customs into our family demonstrated to me the outrageous estimation of assorted variety, something I have always appreciated. Actually, my faith can be ascribed to my seven summers spent at the Jewish summer camp where I was permitted to investigate my religion through workmanship, music and network petition (Johnstone et al., 2015). These seven summers reinforced my own faith yet additionally enable me to acknowledge a decent variety of assorted types. In this way, I feel fortunate to have the capacity to pick my very own profound way, dissimilar to those in the High Middle Ages or amid the Reformation when it was the choice of the lord. While religion and faith will result in all probability dependably motivation banter, I figure we can think back on history and recognize what amount has changed over the most recent 1000 years, and be appreciative for it. Comment by Dustin Heuerman: For the final paper, write in only third person.
References
Flannelly, K. J., Weaver, A. J., & Costa, K. G. (2014). A systematic review of religion and spirituality in three palliative care journals, 1990–1999. Journal of Palliative Care, 20(1), 50-56.
Johnstone, B., Yoon, D. P., Cohen, D., Schopp, L. H., McCormack, G., Campbell, J., & Smith, M. (2015). Relationships among spirituality, religious practices, personality factors, and health for five different faith traditions. Journal of religion and health, 51(4), 1017-1041.
Kadar, J. L., Scott, A. B., Hipp, K., Belavich, T. G., Butter, E. M., Rye, M. S., … & Zinnbauer, B. J. (2015). Religion and spirituality: Unfuzzying the fuzzy. In Sociology of Religion (pp. 29-34). Routledge.
McKay, M., & Wood, J. C. (2019). The New Happiness: Practices for Spiritual Growth and Living with Intention. New Harbinger Publications.
Oman, D. (2018). Defining religion and spirituality. Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality, 2, 23-47.
Stephenson, P. S., & Berry, D. M. (2015). Describing spirituality at the end of life. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 37(9), 1229-1247.
Zinnbauer, B. J., & Pargament, K. I. (2015). Religiousness and spirituality. Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality, 21-42.