RT Article
T1 Narrating spiritual well-being in relationship to positive psychology and religion
JF Koers
VO 74
IS 1/2
SP 23
OP 42
A1 Rooyen, B. van
A1 Beukes, R. B. I.
A2 Beukes, R. B. I.
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/193662933X
AB Constructed as new and located in the discourse of positive psychology, “spiritual well-being” is a signifier with a (his)story in which one possible reading is highlighted in this postmodern (de)constructive narrative. The construction of “spiritual + well-being” could be narrated as a secularisation of the religious by positivist psy-complex knowledges, where spiritual well-being is reconstructed as a measurable outcome. Or it could be nar-rated as a “spiritualisation” of the psy-complex by religious knowledges, with measurable well-being becoming dependent on the pursuit of the postmodern, multiple-storied spiritual/ religious features. As the psy-complex has followed medicine from a focus on pathology to a focus on holistic wellness, it has found itself in the religious realm which it has simultaneously centred and marginalised. Additionally, as the psy-complex has moved from measuring illness to measuring wellness, it could be described as having constructed new categories of non-well-being or ill-being.
K1 Religion : Motiv
K1 Spiritual well-being
K1 Psy-Complex
K1 Positive Psychology
DO 10.4102/koers.v74i1/2.115