
Spirituality as a cultural phenomenon
Author(s) -
Leonid Chupriy
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/1999.9.819
Subject(s) - spirituality , consciousness , psyche , conversation , phenomenon , epistemology , inclusion (mineral) , morality , psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , philosophy , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , communication
In our time, repeatedly appealing to such a concept as spirituality is very relevant. We can hear him from the mouth of a people's deputy and from the conversation of a simple worker. As a consequence - increasing attention to its analysis from the side of philosophical thought, attempts of scientific exploitation, the tendency to include in the circle of philosophical categories. "In a number of close concepts - consciousness, psyche, morality, reasonableness - the concept of spirituality belongs a special place. In the broad sense, spirituality is a manifestation of the internal state of the individual, or rather the orientation of his consciousness, which carries out a motivated inclusion in the social life from within "