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| The Adjustment Process of Ex-Buddhist Monks to Life After the Monastery | ||
| 作者 | Mapel, Tim |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Religion & Health |
| 卷期 | v.46 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2007.03 |
| 頁次 | 19 - 34 |
| 出版者 | Springer Science & Business Media B.V. |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.springer.com/gp/ |
| 出版地 | Dordrecht, the Netherlands [多德雷赫特, 荷蘭] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Tim Mapel, Eastern Institute of Technology, Taradale, New Zealand. Waipawa, New Zealand |
| 關鍵詞 | ex-Buddhist monks; adjustment processes; life transitions; Buddhism; religious to secular transitions |
| 摘要 | This study explores the adjustment process of five Western ex-Buddhist monks to life after the monastery, using an in depth case study approach and thematic analysis. Participants discussed their initial experience of leaving, the process of creating a new life and their relationship with the past. The findings indicated that while each case was unique, significant common themes emerged as features of the adjustment process. The adjustment had been multi-dimensional, challenging, difficult, confusing, complex and profound for the participants. They had to contend with issues of grief, delayed development, missing out on life experiences, difficulties with intimacy, money, identity, depression, anxiety and confusion. This was combined with the hope and promise of many newly found freedoms involved in establishing a new life and identity. Parallels are drawn to the experience of Catholic priests and nuns who have departed their Orders, Vietnam veterans, ex-cult members and individuals who have left total institutions where their identity and daily lives were highly prescribed. The adjustment experience of ex-Buddhist monks extends the literature on Buddhist monks and provides an example of a life transition of interest to the helping professions because of its potential relevance to a range of major transitions for which clients may seek assistance. |
| 目次 | Introduction 19 Background 20 Methodology 21 Results and discussion 23 The initial experience of leaving 23 ‘‘The whole identity of the previous 17 years had suddenly gone and I was nobody going nowhere with nothing to formulate an identity with.’’ 24 ‘‘The experience of leaving was like losing your job, having no money, being divorced, losing your spirituality blah blah blah – all at once!’’ 24 Creating a new life 24 ‘‘there’s something about the intimacy and the attachment [in a relationship] that kind of made me want to work through the difficulties rather than run away.’’ 25 ‘‘...having come out of one kind of binding convention and gone slam bang into another one...’’ 25 ‘‘being dynamic and proactive in the world is equally spiritual as being detached and into beingness.’’ 27 ‘‘there is something about getting attached, it’s almost like being more in life in a sense, of being more willing to be more in life and a part of it.’’ 28 ‘‘It’s quite easy to be detached [as opposed to ‘non-attached’] if you’re not attached.’’ 28 Relationship with the past 28 ‘‘ that I put all of this energy and effort and commitment – amazing commitment into something – and basically it has all been shelved.’’ 31 Conclusion 32 References 33 |
| ISSN | 00224197 (P); 15736571 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 267 |
| 建檔日期 | 2007.09.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.11.12 |
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