عنوان

Phenomenon of adolescent prayer: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives

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TL48336

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Phenomenon of adolescent prayer: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Adam Ehrmantraut

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

McClure, John

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

188

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Committee members: Nowakowski, Matthew; Sheedy, Patrick; Wolfe, Rustin

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-87827-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ed.D.

Discipline of degree

Leadership

Body granting the degree

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Text preceding or following the note

2015

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This study explored one aspect of religious life, prayer, at a dynamic time in human development, adolescence. This phenomenology examined the experience of adolescent prayer among those who subscribed to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Eighteen high school seniors from two Minnesota high schools, six from each religious group, completed a 7-day journal identifying and explaining their prayer experiences. After, each adolescent participated in a conversational interview with the researcher further exploring their individual prayer experiences. Journal and interview data were analyzed according transcendental phenomenology methods to create a synthesis of the adolescent prayer experience. Five themes of adolescent prayer were identified in the differing categories of human experience: (a) fitting prayer into adolescent life, (b) prayer's connection with the divine, (c) building identity through prayer, (d) emotional transitions from prayer, and (e) prayer as a coping method. In the end, a cyclical model of the adolescent prayer experience was created describing how prayer leads to the solidification of identity, emotional change, and a readiness to cope during everyday life.

Religion; Comparative

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Adolescent;Christian;Jewish;Muslim;Prayer

Ibrahim, Anwar

McClure, John

Subdivision

Leadership

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Call Number

1707689958; 3711542

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[Thesis]

276903

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