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This initiative will seek to transform the suffering experienced by Catholic women when a marriage covenant ends through a research-based project to reimagine the Roman Catholic annulment process. This project is intended to increase awareness of the annulment process to foster healing and restoration. The Roman Catholic annulment process, dating back to A.D. 110, historically focused on a more transactional approach to breaking the covenantal bond established in a Catholic marriage. This process will help women view and experience the annulment process as a journey toward healing and restoration leading to new relationships with self, others, and God. Finding joy in a new beginning brings hope. Yet finding a new beginning in the annulment process is an experience of faith. The study examines Catholicism as a way of life in the broader context of sacramental theology. The sacramental life centers on seven interrelated sacraments. The sacrament of marriage creates a covenantal relationship and life-long marital bond. This bond cannot be dissolved. There is no Catholic divorce. Therefore, when a civil divorce occurs, a complex cycle of grief follows. While marriage remains a significant part of the fabric of our society, approximately 50% of all U.S. marriages end in divorce. Despite controversy regarding the annulment process, it can be a life-giving journey that transforms suffering. Church documents provide vision, clarity, and the opportunity for Catholics to understand teachings on marriage, divorce, and annulments. The project will include a group of 8-10 Catholic women, who were married in the Church and experienced a civil divorce. These women will build trust, develop authentic relationships, and support each other as they journey together. The group will be structured using the Bridges Transition Model which highlights three stages of transition: endings, neutral zone, and new beginnings. This one-year project will be evaluated using information gathered during individual and group sessions. A structured outline has been established for the project and aligns with the steps in the annulment process.

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For Muscogee Creek poet Joy Harjo, poetry is a real world force that can empower the reader by utilizing mythic memory, recovery of history, and a spiral journey to regain communal identity. Her poetic career transforms from early lyric poems to a hybridized form of prosody, prose, and myth to accommodate and to reflect Harjo's concerns as they progress from personal, to tribal, and then to global. She often employs a witnessing strategy to combat the trauma caused by racism in order to create the possibility for renewal and healing. Furthermore, Harjo's poetry combats forces that seek to define Native American existence negatively. To date, Harjo's poetic works create a myth that will refocus humanity's attention on the way in which historical meaning is produced and the way difference is encountered. In an effort to revise the dominant stories told about Indians, Harjo privileges the idea that Native Americans are present and human, and it is this sense of humanity that pervades her poetry. Sequentially, Joy Harjo's volumes of poetry-She Had Some Horses (1983), In Mad Love and War (1990), and The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994)-create a regenerative cycle that combats the effects of oppressive history and racism. Through her poetry, violent and tragic events are transformed into moments of hope and renewal. Her collections are powerful testimonies of endurance and survival. They directly defy the stereotype of the "vanishing" or "stoic" Indian, but more importantly, they offer regeneration and grace to all peoples. The poems create a map to help navigate the multiple simultaneous realms of existence, to find a way to travel through the barriers that separate existence. In this dissertation, I employ various reading strategies to support my contentions. Blending a postcolonial standpoint with feminism, I believe Harjo uses a feminist ethnic bildungsroman to explain how a woman of color achieves maturation of self-identity given the many layers of restrictions that act to muffle her voice. Utilizing mediational theory, I study the way in which Harjo's poetry addresses multiple audiences in an attempt to achieve renewal. Furthermore, I posit that Harjo questions the validity of history, and through her retelling of the historical narrative, she impacts the collective consciousness of a nation in an attempt to combat the ill effects of historical trauma. Finally, Joseph Campbell's ideas about the sustaining power of myth, an idea shared by many Native Americans, shapes my arguments regarding Harjo's use of myth as a source of renewal and strength.

Detta examensarbete handlar om hur pedagoger ser på utevistelse och dess lärande samt hur de använder utevistelse i sitt pedagogiska arbete. Frågeställningarna som ställdes var: Hur ser pedagoger på utevistelse och lärande? Hur använder de utevistelse i sitt pedagogiska arbete? Begreppen arbetet utgick ifrån för att kunna svara på frågeställningarna var barns rörelseglädje och miljödidaktik. För att ta reda på detta användes enkätundersökning som metod. Enkätundersökningarna skickades ut till de förskolor i en viss kommun, som förskolecheferna godkände. Resultatet från enkäterna som skickades ut visade på att det var en blandning mellan de båda begreppen som användes i denna undersökning.  De flesta gångerna förskolorna gick till lekparken eller skogen var både planerade och oplanerade, då pedagogerna ansåg att barnen behöver båda. / The purpose with this study was to see how preschool-teachers see on the time outdoors and the learning it leads to, and also how they use the time outdoors in their educational work. The questions were as following: How do preschool-teachers look upon the time outdoors and learning? How do preschool-teachers use the time outdoors in their educational work? The concepts of children’s joy of movement and environmental didactics were assumed to answer the questions in this study. To answer these questions survey were used as a method. The survey was sent out to most of the preschools in a municipality. The results of the surveys that came back showed that it’s a mixture of the both concepts that were used in this study and that the most times at the playground or in the woods were both planned and unplanned, because the teacher’s assumes that the children needs both.

This thesis is an exploration of the concepts of what the spirituality of consciousness means in several key areas of the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual self. Many students and professionals walk through their educational and professional careers filled with confusion, lack of self-understanding, a yearning for something more but never discovering it in the places we find ourselves for most of our day-to-day interactions. My hope is that this thesis will give insight to how students can overcome obstacles and fears in their lives in order to move forward, and, when necessary, to move past themselves. As a young, Black, immigrant woman who is a first-generation college student and student affairs professional, the methodology of Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) appeals to me the most in exploring the spirituality of consciousness. Therefore, I will be using SPN to highlight a portion of my journey through three lenses: mindfulness counseling, religo-spirituality, and understanding what it means to unlock our minds and its complexities through a spiritually-enriched education. I will also highlight how we can disseminate the knowledge of self-awareness and self-awakening as life teachers, educators, and learners to those who come after us--the next generation. The holistic preservation of self and mind is a vital stage in our human existence. As higher education administrators and teachers, we should be able to take the risk and accept the challenge to delve deeper within ourselves to be able to move beyond the curriculum and see the full humanity of our students, hopefully leading to more joyful, productive, loving, creative and brilliant minds. How do we do this? How do we awaken to life, to learning, to each other, in the midst of chaos? This thesis attempts to point the way.

My dissertation, Unspeakable Joy: Rejoicing in Early Modern England, claims that the act of rejoicing--expressing religious joy--was a crucial rhetorical element of literary works in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England. The expression of religious joy in literature functioned as a sign of belief and sanctification in English Protestant theology, and became the emotive articulation of a hopeful union between earthly passion and an anticipated heavenly feeling. By taking into account the historical-theological definitions of joy in the reformed tradition, I offer new readings of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century texts, including the Sidney Psalms, Donne's sermons, Spenser's Epithalamion, Richard Rogers's spiritual diaries, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. I suggest that much of early modern poetics stems from a desire, on behalf of writers, to articulate the ineffable joy so often described by sermons and tracts. By establishing Renaissance emotional expression as a source of religious epistemology and negotiating the cognitive and constructive understandings of emotion, I show that religious rejoicing in Elizabethan Protestantism consists of a series of emotive speech acts designed to imitate the hoped-for joys of heaven. Finally, these readings emphasize the ways in which rejoicing not only functions as a reaffirmation of belief in and commitment to the state church but also becomes the primary agent for spiritual affect by bestowing grace on an individual believer.

This essay attempts to examine whether it is possible to find a mutual understanding of the concept of drive between Spinoza’s philosophy and Freud’s psychoanalytical theory. Former texts on this subject have given a variety of conclusions: from a radical separation between the two authors to a complete identification between the two. The drive, or the desire which is the term Spinoza uses, has in Spinoza’s philosophy its foundation in the concept of conatus. Conatus is every thing’s strive to persevere in its being and is the expression of God’s, or the only substance’s, force and action in a here and a now. In the Freudian theory the term trieb, drive, is defined by it’s variation regarding object, source and aim. The late Freudian theory of drives separates the life drive, also called Eros, from the death drive. Eros is the strive of every being to maintain life but also to procreate and create stronger unities of life. It is, as the strive of conatus, a persevering strive. However, in examining the strive of conatus to persevere in its being, which could be said to strive by the guidance of a principle of joy, the distinction between the concept of conatus and the Freudian Eros is made visible through the comparison to the Freudian pleasure principle.

Diss. Ph. D.--English--Uppsala university, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 243-253. Index.

"Die vorliegende Arbeit ... wurde von der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Frankfurt als Dissertation angenommen." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137).