The intersection between mindfulness and human rights
The case of Falun Gong and its implications for social work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15434403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Cheung (0009-0003-0657-9818, University of Manitoba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 57-75 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1542-6432 • E-ISSN: 1542-6440 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15426432.2015.1067586 |
| OpenAlex | W2398057813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
The author reports on a qualitative study conducted with Falun Gong practitioners in Canada, and explores how a mindful meditative practice can facilitate peaceful resistance to global human rights violations. Falun Gong is a Chinese traditional meditative practice rooted in Buddhist and Daoist philosophies. The Falun Gong experience illuminates a global peace praxis that harmonizes an inward spiritual focus with an outward social action that integrates ethics, morality, and inner transformation in a collective manner through mindful meditative practice. Articulating a few lessons learned from the research, the author discusses how the mindful meditative practice of Falun Gong and practitioners’ peaceful resistance can help to expand social work’s engagement in the protection of human rights of people of faith on a global scale. The Chinese traditional mindful meditative practice of Falun Gong can help integrate personal, collective, and social transformation to uphold justice and to protect the human rights of all people of faith, which has implications for social work
Buddhism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Human rights · Mindfulness · Morality · Political science · Praxis · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Theology · Child Therapy and Development · Law · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Philosophy · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health
Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective
Human Rights and Social Work
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The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Revisited
Socially Engaged Buddhism
Falun Gong and the Future of China
Human Rights and Social Work
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
Human Rights and Social Work
Mindfulness Research in Social Work
Against difference and diversity in social work
Falun Gong and China's human rights violations
An Exploratory Study of Radical Mindfulness Training with Severely Economically Disadvantaged People
Individual and Collective Empowerment in Online Communities
Community resilience for youth and families
Social Justice and People of Faith
Brief Note
Advocating for the forgotten human right
Universalism and cultural relativism in social work ethics
Torture and terror post-9/11
Exploring the history of social work as a human rights profession
Healing heart and mind
Doing Narrative Research
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |