In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the query of ways participants acceptable spiritual traditions has turn into relatively appropriate. during this quantity, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians study the presence of spiritual voices in narrative structures of the self. the point of interest is at the a number of methods spiritual tales and practices function in self-narratives approximately significant existence transitions. The contributions discover the ways that such voices tell the lodging and interpretation of those transitions.
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