Aostre Johnson

• Saint Michael's College

The aim of the study is to shed light on the perception of spiritual exemplars by those who consider them as such. The authors asked 300 experts in the religious-spiritual field from different traditions to nominate spiritual exemplars they knew and describe them “specifically indicating what it is that makes each of them exemplary.” Seventy-seven...

The aim of the study is to shed light on the perception of spiritual exemplars by those who consider them as such. The authors asked 300 experts in the religious-spiritual field from different traditions to nominate spiritual exemplars they knew and describe them "specifically indicating what it is that makes each of them exemplary." Seventy-seven...

The aim of this study is to shed light on the experience of Living Transcendence, a relatively stabilized spiritual state considered in many religious traditions the pinnacle and holy grail of the search for the sacred. It explores how Living Transcendence is experienced by individuals, identified by others as spiritual exemplars having and evincin...

I will begin with an overview of spirituality and its relationship to contemplative spirituality. I will then detail an array of “contemplative capacities,” including reflective, emotional, imaginative/creative, ethical, intuitive/mystical, and religious. Next, I will discuss these capacities in relationship to education, with a particular emphasis...

This chapter articulates an overall definition of “contemplative” and reviews research on the benefits of contemplative practices. It suggests four overlapping but differing ways of defining contemplative development, including (1) attitudes and emotions, (2) intuitive knowing, (3) religious or spiritual knowing, and (4) rational cognitive reflecti...

Katie sings the multiplication facts quietly to herself. Sam tries to solve problems by tapping his pencil in rhythmic patterns. José draws pictures from his teacher's tile-array models. Alima sorts her crayons into groups to help herself find the answer. Lin checks his solutions with his neighbor. Maria uses logic to extend her knowledge of simple...

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-196).