Reflections on the use of spirituality to privilege religion in scientific discourse: incorporating considerations of self |
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Authors: | Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson |
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Institution: | (1) Counselling Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Ave, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4 |
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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.
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Keywords: | Spirituality Memes Mind Self |
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