Nancy Thomas Adler's Spiritual Journey

“The quest for meaning or truth is as strong as ever, but Americans are looking for peace and spirituality in different forums than in the past” – Jerry Adler
In the testimony of the Christian, it seems very traditional in Nancy Thomas became very involved within the Church. Her spiritual quest was upheld when she felt an exciting experience in the summer of 1957. Empowerment was clearly seen as she explains here phenomenon as she “felt as if the lord himself game me his hand to hold” and “felt an overwhelming inner peace that I had never experienced before.” According to Adler, Empowerment requires the intensity of effort and it was proven as she felt changes in her life as she accepted Jesus Christ. The bible is the standard for everything
At an early age she was a born into a Jewish family, but her religious life seemed mundane as it seemed she was not spiritual but instead going through motion which was a dysfunction in religion. She “accepted the traditional meals and celebrations, but her other ‘second half’ was watching from another vantage point- quiet, serious, searching. Interestingly, as she had the traits of being a seeker, she would also potentially become religious due to the strong network ties that Marlena and her brother were creating. Through network ties such as being called from her brother, it was the start of her participation towards Mormonism. A major reason for Marlena’s participation seems to be the network ties with the people of the Mormon Church. The peer pressure and the constant assistance that she receives from them on the daily even though she never went to the Church of Mormons slowly changed her acceptance towards Mormons. Like the Nancy Thomas, Malena too believed in the Plan of Salvation, in which case it is because of the greater potential of believing in something powerful. Salvation was a common ground in which “super natural assumptions are the only plausible source for many rewards that humans seem to desire intensely” (203). This testimony comes to show that seekers can also be religious, as she yearned to
Troeltsch envisioned this “third type” of religion as becoming increasingly common in the modern world because of its affinity with the trends toward greater individualism and personal autonomy. In addition, SBNR writers’ motivation for not participating in a religion or tradition is due to their desire to see the value in all religions and beliefs. The SBNR community is very diverse and the beliefs are also very diverse because people in the SBNR community want to experience a spiritual journey not tied down to one religion in order to perceive and experience things in their own ways or