Pengaruh Kemampuan Menghafal al-Qur’anTerhadap Konsentrasi Belajar Siswa Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Muhammadiyah 6 Ponorogo

Education is important for human existence because it broadens intellectual and spiritual perspectives. Education is very important not only for physical growth and development or human body, but also for spiritual growth and development. Education must start from a young age, because it can be used as a way of life until one reaches old age. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the students' ability to memorize the Qur'an at MI Muhammadiyah 6 Ponorogo on students' learning concentration. The research method used is quantitative, with a population of 96 students and a sample of 30 students who apply the memorization of the Qur'an. Data collection is done by using the technique of distributing questionnaires and documentation. The data were then analyzed using Descriptive Statistics and Prerequisite Analysis. The results showed that there was a positive and significant influence between the ability to memorize the Qur'an and the learning concentration of grade IV, V and VI students at MI Muhammadiyah 6 Ponorogo. This can be seen from the constant value of 16.987 and the regression coefficient value of the memorization ability of 0.755. With the regression equation, namely Y = 16.987 + 0.755X, it is known that the coefficient of determination of 34.6% is determined by the ability to memorize the Qur'an.

The Diverse Spirit: Spiritual Care Perspectives and the Implications for Older Adults in Various Settings

Religiosity and spirituality are commonly supported and viewed as essential elements of well-being in old and very old age, particularly at end of life. These essential elements often include the exploration of the meaning in life, inner peace, belonging, contentment, and near-end-of-life-completion. The positive outcomes of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices have been well established. However, these experiences and related positive outcomes may not always include a diverse array of older adults. The spiritual care of older adults is becoming more culturally diverse and includes differing perspectives on what constitutes spiritual care, both in approach and practice. This symposium will explore the current state of spiritual care for older adults through a lens of cultural diversity and inter-religious/spiritual perspectives. A focus on the current practices of spiritual care for older adults and future implications will also be considered. Recommendations pertaining to future gerontological inquiry in the importance of spiritual care, as well as diverse approaches within gerontological practice will be highlighted and discussed.

The Return of Twin Peaks: Squaring the Circle

Franck Boulègue's latest book about David Lynch and Mark Frost's famous television series focuses on the eighteen new episodes directed by Lynch for season 3, screened in 2017. Analyses the season with special importance given to readings from an intertextual, ontological and spiritual perspectives.

Poverty, Welfare and Assessing the Impact of Productive Zakat Distribution

Zakat is an essential Islamic economic tool to mobilize assets to alleviate poverty and create prosperity. This paper discusses the relationship between zakat, primarily productive zakat, poverty, and welfare from the Islamic perspective. With the potential for extraordinary zakat collection, it is expected that the distribution of zakat will have a tremendous impact on improving the welfare of the mustahik. It is imperative to measure the impact of zakat distribution on mustahik, especially when using appropriate analysis. CIBEST is an analytical tool capable of measuring these impacts from two viewpoints: material and spiritual perspectives. Zakat collection organizations and academics should utilize this analytical tool more to evaluate zakat distribution programs.

History of pain in children

The problem of pain has always concerned humankind, as pain is a compelling call for attention and a signal to escape. Early efforts to understand pain, and its origins, features, and treatment reflected the duality between spiritual conceptualizations of pain and physiological explanations depending on the predominance of such views in a given culture. When spiritual perspectives dominated, prayer, amulets, supplication, and religious rites controlled approaches to pain treatment. Herbal remedies were often part of such strategies and might themselves been physiologically effective. In ancient writings about pain and disease, treatments for children were often given alongside discussions about the health of women. In this chapter, we trace early approaches to pain in children to the modern era, highlighting points of transition and improvements in pediatric pain management.

Carer Empowerment Is Key to Reduce Dementia Care Inequalities in the Middle East

Dementia represents a significant problem in the Middle East. Sociocultural and political factors that shape conceptions of health and care tend to stifle research and the dissemination of knowledge throughout the Middle East. These socio-political challenges concerning engagement with individuals living with dementia and their carers include language barriers, stigmatization, logistical constraints, lack of informal support outside of hospitals, and over-dependence on clinicians for dementia information. There is an urgent need in the Middle East to increase care and support for adults with dementia and their carers, enhance research efforts and improve the dissemination of information related to dementia in the region. One possible way to do so is to begin to promote a knowledge-based culture throughout the Middle East. This can be achieved by aligning traditional deterministic and spiritual perspectives of mental health with more Western, scientific, and evidence-based models. We suggest employing practical, multidimensional approaches to deal with the stated challenges, both at individual and societal levels. Doing so will improve knowledge of dementia and allow health and social care systems in the Middle East to begin to address a growing problem.

Religious Syncretism and Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Religious and cultural syncretism, particularly in visual art in the Jewish and Christian traditions since the 19th century, has expressed itself in diverse ways and reflects a broad and layered series of contexts. These are at once chronological—arising out of developments that may be charted over several centuries before arriving into the 19th and 20th centuries—and political, spiritual, and cultural, as well as often extending beyond the Jewish–Christian matrix. The specific directions taken by syncretism in art is also varied: it may be limited to the interweave of two religious traditions—most often Jewish and Christian—in which most often it is the minority artist seeking ways to create along lines consistent with what is created by the majority. It may also interweave three or more traditions. It may be a matter of religion alone, or it may be a matter of other issues, such as culture or gender, which may or may not be obviously intertwined with religion. The term “syncretism” has, in certain specifically anthropological and theological circles, acquired a negative connotation. This has grown out of the increasing consciousness, since the 1960s, of the political implications of that term in the course of Western history, in which hegemonic European Christianity has addressed non-Christian religious perspectives. This process intensified in the Colonial era when the West expanded its dominance over much of the globe. An obvious and particularly negative instance of this is the history of the Inquisition as it first affected Jews in late-15th-century Spain and later encompassed indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. While this issue is noted—after all, art has always been interwoven with politics—it is not the focus of this article. Instead “syncretism” will not be treated as a concept that needs to be distinguished from “hybridization” or “hybridity,” although different modes of syncretism will be distinguished. Syncretistic preludes to visual artists in the 19th and 20th centuries, suggesting some of the breadth of possibility, include Pico della Mirandola, Kabir, and Baruch/Benedict Spinoza. Specific religious developments and crises in Europe from the 16th century to the 18th century brought on the emancipation of the Jews in some places on the one hand, and a contradictory continuation of anti-Jewish prejudice on the other, the latter shifting from a religious to a racial basis. This, together with evident paradoxes regarding secular and spiritual perspectives in the work of key figures in the visual arts, led to a particularly rich array of efforts from Jewish artists who revision Jesus as a subject, applying a new, Jewishly humanistic perspective to transform this most traditional of Christian subjects. Such a direction continued to spread more broadly across the 20th century. The Holocaust not only raised new visual questions and possibilities for Jewish artists, but also did so from the opposite direction for the occasional Christian—particularly German—artist. Cultural syncretism sometimes interweaves religious syncretism—which can connect and has connected Christianity or Judaism to Eastern religions—and a profusion of women artists in the last quarter of the century has added gender issues to the matrix. The discussion culminates with Siona Benjamin: a Jewish female artist who grew up in Hindu and Muslim India, attended Catholic and Zoroastrian schools, and has lived in America for many decades—all these aspects of her life resonate in her often very syncretistic paintings.

Mindfulness in a Moroccan University: Exploring Students’ Transformational Journey Through an Academic Course in Mindfulness

This study examines how students experienced and made meaning of a novel academic course in mindfulness, offered to foster holistic learning through self-knowledge. For this interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were collected through critical reflective journals and semistructured interviews. The findings suggest that the course allowed students to develop deeper self-awareness, greater well-being, compassion, and wisdom and to experience profound transformation. The study suggests that gaining metacognitive awareness into causes of suffering led students to engage in change. Also, as students engaged in mindfulness practices, they drew connections with their religious and spiritual practices, deepening our understanding of cultural–spiritual perspectives on transformative learning. This course and study examined the idea that if we build mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy into the core curriculum of higher education, we can provide opportunities for transformative and lifelong learning.

PERSPECTIVELE SPIRITUALE ALE MINŢII UMANE LA SFÂNTUL MAXIM MĂRTURISITORUL

The human mind is the subject of research for various fields of activity. Socio-human research fields investigate the brain's relationship with the mind, its circumstantial and relational functionality, the biological support and the complex processes of the soul, the principles of its formation and the relationship with consciousness, as well as its mode of action at the level of the human communities. Besides these perspectives, there is a special domain of mind research: that of Christian patristic spirituality. But what are the research objectives of Christian spirituality with regard to the human mind? And why did the uman mind come to the attention of the holy Fathers of the Church? From the texts of Christian anthropology and spirituality it follows that the mind has become a subject of research because the most intimate union between man and God is at its level. This study is centered on the analysis of St. Maximus the Confessor's observations about the human mind and its spiritual possibilities. The research methods relate both to the relationship between St. Maximus' observations and the previous Greek and Patristic philosophical tradition, and to their comparison with the results of modern thoughts about the mind. It can be said that the spiritual perspectives described by St. Maximus fundamentally complements the current research of about mind, because it discovers her cognitive and sensitive ability to develop in personal relationship with God.

Spiritual, Religious and Ethical Values in a Suicidal Individual

Religious and spiritual experiences can appear in mental health practice as far as they often structure what aspects of psychopathological phenomena are present, sometimes making it difficult to determine whether some experiences should be classified as symptoms of a psychiatric disorder or crises within spiritual life.We present a clinical vignette of a 62-year-old sacristan who was admitted to the Psychiatric Emergency Room for suicidal thoughts in the context of physical sequelae of a cardiac episode. He confessed that, in the process of coping with his illness, he had a distressing experience of guilt and of losing his religious faith and shared the intention to take his own life by hanging himself.Themes that emerge in the discussion include issues related to the boundaries of psychiatric diagnosis, the spiritual dimension of mental health and the values that underlie clinical decision-making regarding a suicidal individual.Incorporating religious and spiritual perspectives in the clinical assessment of patients is essential to understand individual’s framework of cultural values and social attitudes on disease.