The Information Behavior of Catholic Women Discerning a Vocation to Religious Life
Approximately 10% of Roman Catholic women seriously discern a vocation to religious life during their lifetime. Spiritual discernment is often characterized by prayer and spiritual direction, but also the acquisition of knowledge and information about religious life. No study to date has sought to u...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge
[2017]
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Journal of religious and theological information
Ano: 2017, Volume: 16, Número: 1, Páginas: 2-21 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | CB Existência cristã KCA Ordens e congregações KDB Igreja católica ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Catholic
B Religious Life B Discernment B Vocation |
| Acesso em linha: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Resumo: | Approximately 10% of Roman Catholic women seriously discern a vocation to religious life during their lifetime. Spiritual discernment is often characterized by prayer and spiritual direction, but also the acquisition of knowledge and information about religious life. No study to date has sought to understand how women seek out and retrieve information about religious life. Therefore, the current study sought to answer the following research question: "what is the information-seeking behavior (ISB) of Catholic women discerning a vocation to religious life?" using Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology. A survey was administered online and yielded responses from 124 participants. Findings indicated that digital and print resources were heavily utilized. However, participants indicated that connecting with a person face-to-face and visiting religious sisters produced a kind of knowledge and information that could not be acquired online, suggesting that their ISB was an integration of digital and print resources and human connection. This study contributes to the literature by intersecting the disciplines of information science and religion to equip practitioners who seek to develop resources for them. The study introduces the concept of limited Internet effectiveness in order to understand the integration of digital versus in-person resources in spiritual religious processes. |
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| ISSN: | 1528-6924 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious and theological information
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2016.1273027 |