Thought Patterns for Organizing Experience: Some Creative Possibilities

The confusion into which so many lives have fallen today gives special importance to patterns by which human experience has been or can be organized. These patterns often produce significant forms of creative behavior.     

A Study of Components of Nursing-Job Satisfaction

Three hundred sixty-three nurses in one hospital were surveyed regarding their perceptions of different job-satisfaction factors. The respondents had widely differing roles and characteristics. The nurses were questioned about both intrinsic and extrinsic job-satisfaction factors. The results revealed many significant interactions between the role-characteristic data and the intrinsic-extrinsic factors data. It was concluded that nursing-job satisfaction must be reviewed in light of the roles and characteristics of the nurses being evaluated.     

HOW RELIGIOUS PRACTICES MATTER1: PETER OCHS' “ALTERNATIVE NURTURANCE” OF PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

This article engages the work of Peter Ochs from the perspective of philosophy of religion. In particular, I consider Ochs' work on Scriptural Reasoning and Jewish Morning Prayer as articulating a unique emphasis on religious liturgical practices that hints at a much needed paradigm shift in philosophy of religion, which has tended to focus on the cognitive aspects of religion (beliefs and doctrines) or the merely static artifacts of religious traditions.