Christian Meditation Groups As Communities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62690094:18610/17:50013751

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.39" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.39</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.39" target="_blank" >10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.39</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Christian Meditation Groups As Communities

Original language description

The paper presents findings from a survey focusing on meditation groups of Christian meditation, which are one of many types of spiritual communities in the Czech Republic. Christian Meditation is a contemplative prayer based on repetitive uttering of the mantra. This particular approach, which was developed by Benedictine monk John Main, is very different from the practices that were called meditation in the Christian culture in the past, but has on the other hand common features with some other approaches based on contemplative prayer, like the “Jesus prayer” and also with some forms of Asian spirituality. The goal of our research was to determine the most important characteristics of spiritual communities of Christian meditation of John Main. Research sub-questions were following: 1) what kind of relationships exist between members of these spiritual communities? 2) What relationship is between these groups and wider religious communities within which they exist? The findings show that there are certain benefits for community coming from this practice. Christian meditation is aimed primarily at building and strengthening of personal relationship with God. Still, meditation with others leads to greater benefits and deeper experience in comparison with being on one’s own. This contributes to the motivation to meet at regular (usually weekly) sessions, and during these emerges subtle sense of community. In this sense are meditation group beneficial for social capital of its members.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

The European proceedings of social and behavioural sciences

ISBN

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ISSN

2357-1330

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

314-321

Publisher name

Future academy

Place of publication

Nicosia

Event location

Targoviste, Romania

Event date

Nov 17, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000416073300039