Resisting Self-spirituality: Counselling as Spirituality in the Dialogues of Hans Schauder and Marcus Lefébure
In the 1980s, a short series of dialogues on counselling between Hans Schauder (1911-2001), a medically trained counsellor, and Marcus Lefébure (1933-2012), a Roman Catholic monk, were published in the UK. These dialogues present counselling as a form of contemporary spirituality, arguing that couns...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2013]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-140 |
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| Summary: | In the 1980s, a short series of dialogues on counselling between Hans Schauder (1911-2001), a medically trained counsellor, and Marcus Lefébure (1933-2012), a Roman Catholic monk, were published in the UK. These dialogues present counselling as a form of contemporary spirituality, arguing that counselling facilitates spiritual experience and that psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic concepts can be understood in spiritual terms. However, the dialogues also present a critique of the authorisation of subjectivity within both counselling and spirituality; in so doing, they anticipate and elaborate later criticisms of Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead's spiritual revolution thesis. The resistance in the Schauder-Lefébure dialogues to Self-spirituality indicates that they align more with politically critical progressive spirituality than with accommodationist capitalist spirituality. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2013.750850 |