Spirituality as "Feeling Connected with the Transcendent": Outline of a Transpersonal Psychology of Adult Development of Self
In this article I discuss the idea that spirituality can be conceptualized as a felt connection with the Transcendent (i.e., the Spiritual Object), and that such a spirituality is integral to the cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal processes of adult development. Spirituality is considered here...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2006
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 16, Pages: 287-307 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social sciences
B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | In this article I discuss the idea that spirituality can be conceptualized as a felt connection with the Transcendent (i.e., the Spiritual Object), and that such a spirituality is integral to the cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal processes of adult development. Spirituality is considered here as a construct related to, but not identical to, religion. The idea of a felt connection with the Transcendent is explored in my theory of felt connection and development of the self (Sinnott, 2004a, 2004d, 2005; Sinnott & Berlanstein, 2005). The cognitive developmental underpinning of that theory is postformal complex thought (Sinnott, 1998b, 2004b; Sinnott & Berlanstein, 2005). The importance to individual psychological development of having a felt connection with the Transcendent can be found in healing systems throughout the world (Sinnott, 2001, 2003a), and sheds light on some types of psychopathology |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789047417675_019 |