عنوان

Embodied Spirituality

Number

LA108986

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Embodied Spirituality

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[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Dagfinn Ulland

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

The main findings on embodied spirituality within the Toronto Blessing are presented in this article. The aim of this study is to interpret ecstatic religious experiences from a psychological point of view. The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary, using theories from ego-psychology, social psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, and ritual theory. Regarding the latter notion, Thomas Csordas has developed cultural phenomenology, which is a culturally constructed way of understanding a situation through using bodily senses in a sort of sensory engagement that is linked with inter-subjectivity. This way of thinking assumes that the body can impart knowledge and help us understand apparently non-rational phenomena. Ecstatic phenomena can be interpreted as bodily knowledge, a habitus, stored or saved in the body to be later activated in a cultural and ritual context. The main findings on embodied spirituality within the Toronto Blessing are presented in this article. The aim of this study is to interpret ecstatic religious experiences from a psychological point of view. The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary, using theories from ego-psychology, social psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, and ritual theory. Regarding the latter notion, Thomas Csordas has developed cultural phenomenology, which is a culturally constructed way of understanding a situation through using bodily senses in a sort of sensory engagement that is linked with inter-subjectivity. This way of thinking assumes that the body can impart knowledge and help us understand apparently non-rational phenomena. Ecstatic phenomena can be interpreted as bodily knowledge, a habitus, stored or saved in the body to be later activated in a cultural and ritual context.

Date of Publication

2012

Physical description

83-104

Title

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

Volume Number

34/1

International Standard Serial Number

1573-6121

Subject Term

bodily knowledge

Subject Term

embodiment

Subject Term

habitus

Subject Term

psychology of religion and spirituality

Subject Term

religious ecstasy

Subject Term

ritual theory

Dagfinn Ulland

Call Number

10.1163/157361212X645340

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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