The Interplay Between Meaning and Sacred Awareness in Everyday Life: Evidence From a Daily Smartphone Study
People experience meaning in various ways across different secular and sacred situations. However, scholars know relatively little about the situational contexts in which meaning occurs. In this article, we first explored the daily contexts of meaning using data collected by a unique, 2-week experie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2018]
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| In: |
The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 71-88 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Experience of religion
/ Transcendental experience
/ Everyday consciousness
/ Meaning
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion KBQ North America |
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| Summary: | People experience meaning in various ways across different secular and sacred situations. However, scholars know relatively little about the situational contexts in which meaning occurs. In this article, we first explored the daily contexts of meaning using data collected by a unique, 2-week experience sampling method through participants' smartphones. Meaning levels were highest during religious and spiritual practices, as well as during traditional work hours. They were also higher with some activities, such as talking to other people, than other activities, such as playing video games. Second, we examined how feelings of meaningfulness were related to sacred states, parsing out which preceded the other. Sacred states, in which people were aware of God or a higher being, tended to come before feelings of meaning rather than the reverse. From these analyses, meaning emerged as richly patterned in everyday life and closely associated withand often a consequence ofsacred awareness. |
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| Item Description: | In der Druckausgabe ist Volume 28, Numbers 1-4 in einem Heft erschienen |
| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2017.1419050 |