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- A digital reference work in the field of Spirituality
- Workspaces for scholars and students, facilitating research, teaching, discussion and publication
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about Spirin Encyclopedia
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Entrances: SPIRIN Dimensions
- Words
- important words for the articulation and interpretation of lived experience
- important words of contemporary (western and non western) spirituality
- Things
- descriptions and analyses of the ways by which spiritualities organise their world, in which things get their place
- natural things / artefacts of our material culture
- Arts
- pieces of art helping to explain the 'secrets' of spiritual life
- representations of arts and analyses of their spiritual meaning.
- Texts
- the corpus of spiritual texts: written texts and audio(visual) texts like interviews
- the texts intertextually related to these texts.
- Forms
- spirituality in its variety of historical 'forms'
- figures, models and traditions encompassing 'forms' like: primordial spirituality; schools of spirituality; counter spiritualities;
- Connections
- between body, soul and spirit, inner and outer world, lower and higher forms of awareness, etc.
- between I and Thou (friendship, marriage, cooperation, accompaniment, etc.), between families, workgroups, basic communities, kibbutzim, etc.
- between movements, congregations, churches, orders, etc.; between cultures; between human mankind and nature
- the human-divine connectedness in different spiritual traditions
- Processes
- dynamic relationship between asceticism and mysticism
- concepts about phases and stages on the spiritual way, exercises and attitudes
- Professions
- practices and fields of experience, and their respective forms of guidance, particularly spiritual accompaniment, all of them essentially being forms of mystagogy
- Disciplines
- spirituality as a discipline, from intradisciplinary, monodisciplinary, and interdisciplinary perspectives
- Theories
- theoretical approaches in the study of spirituality
- the corpus of theories on Spirituality throughout history
- epistemological debates on the meaning and the interpretation of Spirituality
- debates on the spiritual character of theoretical reflection
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Other entrances
- Persons
- bio-bibliographies of important persons and their work
- articles about such persons
- a register of all authors, translators, coordinators etc.
- Places
- work-places; places of activity (Deventer: Geert Groote; etc.)
- pilgrimage places
- important locations (Deventer Latin School; Windesheim congregation; etc.)
- Courses
- a learning environment, giving access to the content of spirituality and facilitating processes of understanding
- Projects
- research and development projects of one or more institutes
- Bible Index
- Bible texts in original language and translations
- Comments
- References to the bible in articles
- Languages
- SPIRIN contains articles, texts and translations in and from several languages.
- Network (who is who)
- a network of institutes and people collaborating in the field of spirituality.
- Institutes
- collaborating institutes and partners
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