In the broad sense, an absence of meaning and purpose; in the narrow sense, the experience of the “muteness” of the world in which the events of life no longer resonate within the person.
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Faith as a Component of Well-Being: Implications for Higher Education
Tobias Alf Kroll (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA), Rosalinda R. Jimenez (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA), Regina B. Baronia (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA), Amy Faltinek (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA), and Michael Gomez (Brown University, USA)
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7693-9.ch005
Abstract
This chapter will discuss the importance of spirituality and religiosity for well-being of stakeholders in higher education, particularly of students. It will be argued that young adults are at a crucial juncture in their lives where old certainties are falling away with the individual attempt to forge a new path for themselves. This journey is fraught with uncertainty, particularly under the conditions of late/post-modernity where the seeker has to navigate competing truths and the ever-looming threat of absurdity, for example, the disconnection between the urgency of making good use of our limited lifespan and the apparent arbitrariness of every possible path. A group meditation and encounter format will be outlined that aims at giving students (or other stakeholders) a safe framework to explore their own meaning-making processes and grounds them in an existential attitude called faith.