Transgression and Transformation: Spiritual Resources for Coping with a Personal Offense
This paper explores the outcomes associated with spirituality following a personal transgression. Personal transgressions differ from externally caused stressful events in various ways. However, the appraisals of and outcomes associated with personal transgressions indicate that such events are ofte...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2006
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 17, Pages: 49-77 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | This paper explores the outcomes associated with spirituality following a personal transgression. Personal transgressions differ from externally caused stressful events in various ways. However, the appraisals of and outcomes associated with personal transgressions indicate that such events are often stressful experiences. Many world religions provide their adherents with spiritual methods for addressing their transgressions. Therefore, transgressors may place their transgressions in a spiritual context. This paper describes four spiritual resources available to individuals struggling with personal transgressions: confession, forgiveness, meaning-making, and conversion. The purposes of these resources are to reduce or eliminate distress and stimulate change or transformation. The paper concludes with clinical implications of these spiritual resources illustrated with case vignettes. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789047411413_007 |