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dc.contributor.authorStokke, Christian
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Mira Cataya
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-04T08:49:25Z
dc.date.available2024-04-04T08:49:25Z
dc.date.created2023-12-23T22:28:58Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationStokke, C., & Rodriguez, M. C. (2023). Når spiritualitet blir kroppslig: Personer i det norske alternativmiljøet forteller om oppvåkningsopplevelser og psykologisk transformasjon. AURA - Tidsskrift for Akademiske Studier Av nyreligiøsitet , 13, 67–88.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2000-4419
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3124778
dc.description.abstractSpiritual awakening is becoming a common phenomenon in alternative spiritual communities and is no longer exclusive to a small elite of religious saints and disciples. There is limited research on spiritual experiences outside religious contexts in the Nordic countries. While relevant theological research exists on religious experiences in Christian contexts, much of the research on alternative spirituality is based on outsider perspectives that miss out on the deeper psychological phenomena experienced by “spiritual, but not religious” individuals. This article is based on three qualitative interviews with individuals in contemporary spiritual communities in Norway who have experienced spontaneous spiritual awakenings and speak openly about this. Focus is on the experience of altered states of consciousness, intense feelings of love, and physical energies in the body, which lead to permanent psychological transformation. Starting with a review of relevant Norwegian and Swedish research in the field, we apply a theoretical approach drawn from humanistic and transpersonal psychology to make sense of our interviewees’ experiences, and then discuss how these cases of embodied spiritual transformation differ from religious conversion and are better understood in terms of psychological concepts of trauma healing, self-actualization and human potential.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleNår spiritualitet blir kroppslig: Personer i det norske alternativmiljøet forteller om oppvåkningsopplevelser og psykologisk transformasjonen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2023 The Author(s).en_US
dc.source.pagenumber67-88en_US
dc.source.volume13en_US
dc.source.journalAURA - Tidsskrift for Akademiske Studier Av nyreligiøsiteten_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.31265/aura.632
dc.identifier.cristin2217460
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