Spirituality

@book{sethna1979the1,
    author = "Sethna, K. D",
    title = "The Spirituality of the Future",
    year = "1979",
    publisher = "A Search Apropos of R.C. Zaehner's study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin: Cranbury, New Jersey, Associated University Presses, 314 p",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Sethna, K. D., 1979, The Spirituality of the Future: A Search Apropos of R.C. Zaehner's study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin: Cranbury, New Jersey, Associated University Presses, 314 p.}"
}

@article{lealman1991young,
    author = "Lealman, Brenda",
    title = "YOUNG PEOPLE, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE FUTURE",
    year = "1991",
    journal = "Religious Education",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1080/0034408910860209",
    doi = "10.1080/0034408910860209",
    number = "2",
    pages = "265-274",
    volume = "86"
}

@article{mcginn2005spirituality,
    author = "McGinn, Bernard",
    title = "Spirituality Confronts its Future",
    year = "2005",
    journal = "Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1353/scs.2005.0014",
    doi = "10.1353/scs.2005.0014",
    number = "1",
    pages = "88-96",
    volume = "5"
}

@incollection{cobb2012the,
    author = "Cobb, Mark and Rumbold, Bruce and Puchalski, Christina M.",
    title = "The future of spirituality and healthcare",
    year = "2012",
    booktitle = "Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199571390.003.0065",
    doi = "10.1093/med/9780199571390.003.0065",
    pages = "487-492"
}

@incollection{altman2013on,
    author = "Altman, Yochanan",
    title = "On Future Spirituality in the Workplace and the Future of Workplace Spirituality",
    year = "2013",
    booktitle = "Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5233-1\_42",
    doi = "10.1007/978-1-4614-5233-1\_42",
    pages = "723-725"
}

@incollection{crossref20207,
    title = "7. The Future of Workplace Spirituality",
    year = "2020",
    booktitle = "Spirituality, Inc.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814765104.003.0010",
    doi = "10.18574/nyu/9780814765104.003.0010",
    pages = "153-176"
}

@article{joshiya2020spirituality,
    author = "Joshiya, Vikas Kumar",
    title = "Spirituality- Future Competitive Edge",
    year = "2020",
    journal = "International Journal of Trade and Commerce-IIARTC",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.46333/iiartc.8.2.2020.11",
    doi = "10.46333/iiartc.8.2.2020.11",
    number = "2",
    volume = "8"
}

@incollection{gillespie2021the,
    author = "Gillespie, Aidan",
    title = "The Future of Spirituality in Education",
    year = "2021",
    booktitle = "Spirituality in Education: Professional Accounts of the Impact of Spirituality on Education",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-894-920211006",
    doi = "10.1108/978-1-83909-894-920211006",
    pages = "57-70"
}

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of death anxiety and spirituality on the psychological well-being of geriatric home care patients. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional design was conducted between January and June 2024 with 280 individuals aged ≥65 years living in a provincial center in eastern Türkiye. Data were collected using the personal information form, Spiritual Orientation Scale, Psychological Well-being Scale, and Death Anxiety Scale. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and machine learning based Shapley value analysis were applied. RESULTS: Psychological well-being was significantly associated with death anxiety and spirituality. Lower death anxiety (t=-4.253, p<0.001) and higher spirituality (t=4.728, p<0.001) were linked to better psychological well-being. Shapley value analysis identified spirituality as the strongest predictor. CONCLUSION: Reducing death anxiety and enhancing spirituality may improve psychological well-being in geriatric home care patients. Integrating spirituality-based psychosocial interventions into geriatric care may strengthen emotional resilience and quality of life. Future longitudinal studies are recommended to better understand the causal relationships between death anxiety, spirituality, and psychological well-being in geriatric home care populations.

@article{doi1030773pi20260010,
    author = "Uçar, Mehmet and Yildiz, Metin",
    title = "The Impact of Death Anxiety and Spirituality Level on Psychological Well-Being of Geriatric Home Care Patients: Machine Learning Approach.",
    year = "2026",
    journal = "Psychiatry investigation",
    abstract = "OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of death anxiety and spirituality on the psychological well-being of geriatric home care patients. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional design was conducted between January and June 2024 with 280 individuals aged ≥65 years living in a provincial center in eastern Türkiye. Data were collected using the personal information form, Spiritual Orientation Scale, Psychological Well-being Scale, and Death Anxiety Scale. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and machine learning based Shapley value analysis were applied. RESULTS: Psychological well-being was significantly associated with death anxiety and spirituality. Lower death anxiety (t=-4.253, p<0.001) and higher spirituality (t=4.728, p<0.001) were linked to better psychological well-being. Shapley value analysis identified spirituality as the strongest predictor. CONCLUSION: Reducing death anxiety and enhancing spirituality may improve psychological well-being in geriatric home care patients. Integrating spirituality-based psychosocial interventions into geriatric care may strengthen emotional resilience and quality of life. Future longitudinal studies are recommended to better understand the causal relationships between death anxiety, spirituality, and psychological well-being in geriatric home care populations.",
    url = "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42046836/",
    doi = "10.30773/pi.2026.0010",
    pmid = "42046836"
}

Food safety remains a global public health challenge, yet traditional compliance-driven approaches often struggle to sustain genuine and consistent behavioral change. This perspective article examines the potential and limitations of integrating spirituality-across individual, workplace, and organizational levels-as a complementary force within food safety culture. Grounded in spiritual leadership theory and safety climate frameworks, we propose that spirituality may enhance food safety climate by fostering value alignment, ethical sensemaking, and shared responsibility. However, we acknowledge the conceptual and practical tensions inherent in applying spiritual constructs within often secular, highly regulated food safety systems-including measurement challenges, cultural and religious diversity, and the need for universally acceptable, evidence-based interventions. Notwithstanding these complexities, we argue that such integration warrants scholarly and practical exploration, particularly in an era marked by post-pandemic distrust, supply chain fragility, and regulatory fatigue. By synthesizing insights from organizational psychology, behavioral economics, and public health, this article advances a propositional thesis: that spirituality, if thoughtfully operationalized, could serve as a contributing factor in rebuilding trust, enhancing procedural integrity, and cultivating a more resilient and purpose-aware food safety culture. We conclude with a strategic agenda for future research and policy, calling for empirical validation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and culturally adaptive approaches.

@article{doi103389fpubh20261717466,
    author = "Chen, Xiujuan",
    title = "Fostering food safety culture in food service organizations: the synergistic role of spirituality and safety climate.",
    year = "2026",
    journal = "Frontiers in public health",
    abstract = "Food safety remains a global public health challenge, yet traditional compliance-driven approaches often struggle to sustain genuine and consistent behavioral change. This perspective article examines the potential and limitations of integrating spirituality-across individual, workplace, and organizational levels-as a complementary force within food safety culture. Grounded in spiritual leadership theory and safety climate frameworks, we propose that spirituality may enhance food safety climate by fostering value alignment, ethical sensemaking, and shared responsibility. However, we acknowledge the conceptual and practical tensions inherent in applying spiritual constructs within often secular, highly regulated food safety systems-including measurement challenges, cultural and religious diversity, and the need for universally acceptable, evidence-based interventions. Notwithstanding these complexities, we argue that such integration warrants scholarly and practical exploration, particularly in an era marked by post-pandemic distrust, supply chain fragility, and regulatory fatigue. By synthesizing insights from organizational psychology, behavioral economics, and public health, this article advances a propositional thesis: that spirituality, if thoughtfully operationalized, could serve as a contributing factor in rebuilding trust, enhancing procedural integrity, and cultivating a more resilient and purpose-aware food safety culture. We conclude with a strategic agenda for future research and policy, calling for empirical validation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and culturally adaptive approaches.",
    url = "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13106430/",
    doi = "10.3389/fpubh.2026.1717466",
    pmcid = "PMC13106430",
    pmid = "42040070"
}