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Reflections on the use of spirituality to privilege religion in scientific discourse: incorporating considerations of self

verfasst von: Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson

Erschienen in: Journal of Religion and Health | Ausgabe 3/2007

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Abstract

Many lay writers have claimed that psychologists and other scientists need to integrate something called “spirituality” into their work. This spirituality, usually undefined, is not something the truth of which may be determined by scientific means, yet it should be called upon to guide or govern our actions in certain all-important ways. This paper deconstructs two such calls that, in the end, are based on the notion of revealed, or religiously held, truth. A paradigm by which spirituality can be investigated integrating the individual self with culture is proposed, and use of this paradigm when considering modernization and supply-side theses of religious propagation is suggested.

Bourget’s reference to “Wilber” refers to Ken Wilber to whom she credits the idea of this “great chain of being” elevating the idea to the level of “theory”. “Spirit” is the “highest level” of this chain and is understood through mysticism. “Soul” is the next level on the chain and is understood thru theology. The third link in the chain is “mind” and this is understood thru psychology. “Life” is next on the chain, and this is understood through biology. The bottom of the link is “matter”, and this is understood through physics.

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Titel: Reflections on the use of spirituality to privilege religion in scientific discourse: incorporating considerations of self
verfasst von: Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2007
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Religion and Health / Ausgabe 3/2007
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-006-9105-y

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