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Asceticism
Asceticism is a lifestyle of rigorous self-discipline, often using some form of self-denial and/or simple living as the means for spiritual improvement and development. The word itself is rooted in the Greek word ascesis, emphasizing a disciplined ...
- The Arts
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- Angels
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- Attitudinal Dimension
- Awe and Wonder
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- Child's God
- Christian Spirituality
- Conversion
- Devil
- Doubt
- Eschatology
- Evil
- Faith
- Fundamentalism
- God
- God, Hindu View of
- Grace
- Happiness
- Heaven
- Hell
- Hinduism, Supreme Being of, the Hindu Trinity
- Kingdom of God
- Krishna
- Mindfulness
- Mysticism
- Mysticism, Jewish
- Neo-Paganism
- Original Sin
- Pluralism
- Religious Diversity
- Revelation
- Sacrifice
- Saints
- Salvation
- Sin
- Soul
- Theodicy: God and Evil
- Theologian, Adolescent as
- Health
- Attachment Formation
- Autism
- Body Image
- Coping in Youth
- Faith Maturity
- Healing, Children of War
- Health
- Health and Medicine
- Orthodox Christian Youth in Western Societies
- Outcomes, Adolescent
- Positive Youth Development
- Psychological Evil
- Psychological Type and Religion
- Psychopathology, Personality, and Religion
- Purpose in Life
- Self-Esteem
- Suicide and Native American Spirituality
- Leading Religious and Spiritual Figures
- Central Religious Figures
- Exemplars and Influential Figures
- Angelou, Maya
- Bartlett, Phoebe
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
- Bunyan, John
- Confucianism
- Crashaw, Richard
- Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
- Day, Dorothy
- Donne, John
- Fox, George
- Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Herbert, George
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua
- Islam, Founding Fathers of
- John the Baptist
- King Jr., Martin Luther
- L'Engle, Madeline
- Lewis, C. S.
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Luther, Martin
- Mary
- Meher Baba
- Mother Teresa
- Muir, John
- Pope
- Saints
- St. Bonaventure
- St. Ignatius of Loyola
- Stein, Edith
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Tutu, Archbishop Desmond
- Vaughan, Henry
- Wesley, John
- Scholars
- Nature
- Organizations
- Places, Religious and Spiritual
- Practices, Religious and Spiritual
- Alchemy
- Asceticism
- Astrology
- Buddhism, Socially Engaged
- Conversion
- Cults
- Dance
- Dialogue, Inter-Religious
- Discernment
- Eucharist
- Fasting
- Forgiveness
- God, Hindu View of
- Gospel Music
- Health
- Health and Medicine
- Islam, Five Pillars of
- Karma, Law of
- Lord's Prayer
- Magic
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Native American Spirituality, Practices of
- Neo-paganism
- Objectivism
- Pluralism
- Pluralism, Hindu
- Prayer
- Psychological Prayer
- Ritual
- Sacraments
- Sacrifice
- Service
- Speech, Ethical
- Spirituals, African American
- St. Ignatius, Spiritual Exercises of
- Tarot
- Vodun (Voodoo)
- Volunteerism
- Wicca and Witchcraft
- Witches, Popular Culture
- Worship
- Yoga
- Supports/Contexts
- Assets, Developmental
- Belief and Affiliation, Contextual Impacts on
- Child and Youth Care
- Communities, Intentional Spiritual
- Cults
- Education, Christian Religion
- Education, Spiritual Development in
- Educational organizations
- Faith-based Service Organizations
- Human Rights
- Parental Influence on Adolescent Religiosity
- Peer and Friend Influences on Adolescent Faith Development
- Politics and Religion in the American Presidency
- Quaker Education
- Religious Diversity in North America
- Texts
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- Differences between Religion and Spirituality in Youth
- End of Life, Lifespan Approach
- Faith Maturity
- Health
- Health
- Health
- Health
- Object Relations
- Positive Youth Development
- Psychoanalytic Perspective
- Psychological Type
- Psychopathology, Personality, and Religion
- Relational Consciousness
- Religious Theory, Developmental Systems View
- Religious Transformation
- Science and Religion
- Semiotics
- Stage-Structural Approach to Religious Development
- Traditions
- Aboriginal
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- Christianity, Orthodox
- Confucianism
- Daoism
- Episcopal Church
- Hinduism
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- Judaism, Conservative
- Judaism, Orthodox
- Judaism, Reconstructionist
- Judaism, Reform
- Mexican American Religion and Spirituality
- Mormonism
- Native American Spirituality
- Presbyterian
- Rosicrucianism
- Shamanism
- Spirituality, Australian
- Zoroastrianism
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