RT Article
T1 Intentionality and transcendence as core components of the spiritual-religious experience: A review of the psycho-clinical research on spirituality from the phenomenology of Dietrich von Hildebrand
JF European journal for philosophy of religion
VO 14
IS 3
SP 71
OP 94
A1 Gargiulo, Teresa
LA English
PB University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1822509734
AB In psycho-clinical research the notion of spirituality acquires a semantic plurality. This equivocal and ambiguous connotation that characterizes this term represents an obstacle to the epistemic and methodological validity of research designs, recognized as the threat to construct validity. In order to overcome this difficulty, we introduce, from Dietrich von Hildebrand's phenomenology, the notions of intentionality and transcendence insofar as these are capable of accounting for the specific element of the spiritual-religious phenomenon and discriminating it from the other phenomena or variables that may be included under the notion of spirituality. This conceptual elucidation task allows evaluating the legitimacy of the variable selection process and establishing why they are or are not representatives of the phenomenon of spiritual-religious experience.
K1 Hildebrand
K1 Intentionality
K1 Religion
K1 Spirituality
K1 trascendence
DO 10.24204/ejpr.2022.3655