Susan Kwilecki
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 267480 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Kwilecki |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Kwilecki |
| ASSINATURA | KWILECKI S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Radford University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Soul Contract Theodicy
This article delineates a contemporary New Age explanation of human suffering and illustrates its application to the loss of a child. Founded on belief in reincarnation and the progressive evolution of souls, the soul contract theodicy depicts personal misfortunes as fated in pre-birth plans, or contracts, which souls supposedly create to accelerate growth in an upcoming incarnation. Descriptions of the soul-planning process are considered from p…
New Light on a Lost Cause
The American tragedy of slavery and the Civil War provides the backdrop for the exemplary spirituality of Atticus Haygood (1839-1896). The son of a Georgia slaveholder, Haygood served as a chaplain in the Confederate army. At the War's end, he returned to Atlanta to suffer poverty and humiliation under the martial law of conquerors. His spirituality developed as a positive response to the chaos of Reconstruction. Following a mid-life transformati…
Ghosts, Meaning, and Faith
After-death communications (ADCs) are reported encounters with a deceased loved one, a contemporary type of ghost experience heralded as therapeutic in coping with bereavement. Pertinent literature generally illustrates the healing power of ADCs with brief self-contained episodes. The functions of ADCs over the course of grief need exploration. To that end, this article analyzes 20 published book-length autobiographical stories of bereavement in …
Twenty-First-Century American Ghosts
This paper examines a recent arrival on the American pop cultural scene, a type of ghost encounter called After-Death Communications (ADCs). Delivered in dreams, visions, voices, odors, coincidences, etc., these cheerful greetings from deceased loved ones help bereaved survivors cope with their loss. Since the Enlightenment, spirits of the dead have become increasingly irrelevant to collective life. The new phantoms, however, are assigned roles i…
Religion and Coping
Freud and Marx pegged religion as a beguiling painkiller. Recent social scientific research has exposed the not-so-simple reality of religious coping, identifying differential usage, means, and outcomes. Appropriately, psychologists, many with clinical training, lead the way. This article is a contribution from religious studies. It describes two thus far neglected modes of religious coping that are prominent in traditions and distinctly represen…
Spiritual Intelligence as a Theory of Individual Religion
This article considers the utility of Emmons's theory of "spiritual intelligence" for the analysis of the religions of individuals. The hypothesis is divided into a proposed description, explanation, and assessment of the consequences of personal faith. The spiritual biography of Gladys Day, a contemporary African American Pentecostal, provides an empirical format for the consideration of each formulation. Accordingly, the "core components" recei…
Becoming Religious
Journal Article Becoming Religious: Understanding Devotion to the Unseen, by Susan Kwilecki. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1999, 269 pp., $46.00 Get access James V. Spickard James V. Spickard University of Redlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 3, Fall 2000, Pages 343–344, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712586 Published: 01 October 2000
Was Mother Teresa Maximizing Her Utility? An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory
Susan Kwilecki, Loretta S. Wilson, Was Mother Teresa Maximizing Her Utility? An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 205-221
Religious-Moral Development
Journal Article Religious-Moral Development: A Case Study of Two Black Baptists Get access Susan Kwilecki Susan Kwilecki Susan Kwilecki is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 439–468, https://d…
Reply to Barnes and Kahoe
Let me thank Michael Barnes and Richard Kahoe for some helpful criticisms. In the space allotted, I want to clarify differences in my perspective and theirs, commenting on three important issues they have raised for the study of religious development. 1. The relationship between the goals of particular traditions and a scientific theory of religious development. Barnes's opening sentence misconstrues my position (Kwilecki, 1988a: 309-13). I do no…
Personal religious belief development
With religious experience or ritual, believing is one of several universal modes through which humans cultivate a relationship to the divine. Treating belief as an avenue of spiritual development, this study describes how in some lives, religious beliefs become clear, elaborate, and functional. Data from two rural counties in Georgia show fundamentalists to be the most vigorous local religious thinkers, suggesting an 'articulate authoritarian' st…
A Scientific Approach to Religious Development
Some treatments of religious development promote ideals more than they describe actual courses of personal religion. Criticizing two well-known theories, this paper offers a conceptual framework for investigating spiritual evolution scientifically. Based on developmental psychology, the theories in question place everyone, regardless of culture or personality, on a single evolutionary path. By contrast, I argue that the diversity and cultural rel…
Religious Orientation and Personality
Religion and Coping
Freud and Marx pegged religion as a beguiling painkiller. Recent social scientific research has exposed the not-so-simple reality of religious coping, identifying differential usage, means, and outcomes. Appropriately, psychologists, many with clinical training, lead the way. This article is a contribution from religious studies. It describes two thus far neglected modes of religious coping that are prominent in traditions and distinctly represen…
Ghosts, Meaning, and Faith
After-death communications (ADCs) are reported encounters with a deceased loved one, a contemporary type of ghost experience heralded as therapeutic in coping with bereavement. Pertinent literature generally illustrates the healing power of ADCs with brief self-contained episodes. The functions of ADCs over the course of grief need exploration. To that end, this article analyzes 20 published book-length autobiographical stories of bereavement in …
Twenty-First-Century American Ghosts
This paper examines a recent arrival on the American pop cultural scene, a type of ghost encounter called After-Death Communications (ADCs). Delivered in dreams, visions, voices, odors, coincidences, etc., these cheerful greetings from deceased loved ones help bereaved survivors cope with their loss. Since the Enlightenment, spirits of the dead have become increasingly irrelevant to collective life. The new phantoms, however, are assigned roles i…
Spiritual Intelligence as a Theory of Individual Religion
This article considers the utility of Emmons's theory of "spiritual intelligence" for the analysis of the religions of individuals. The hypothesis is divided into a proposed description, explanation, and assessment of the consequences of personal faith. The spiritual biography of Gladys Day, a contemporary African American Pentecostal, provides an empirical format for the consideration of each formulation. Accordingly, the "core components" recei…
Was Mother Teresa Maximizing Her Utility? An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory
Susan Kwilecki, Loretta S. Wilson, Was Mother Teresa Maximizing Her Utility? An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 205-221
Religious Orientation and Personality
Personal religious belief development
With religious experience or ritual, believing is one of several universal modes through which humans cultivate a relationship to the divine. Treating belief as an avenue of spiritual development, this study describes how in some lives, religious beliefs become clear, elaborate, and functional. Data from two rural counties in Georgia show fundamentalists to be the most vigorous local religious thinkers, suggesting an 'articulate authoritarian' st…
A Scientific Approach to Religious Development
Some treatments of religious development promote ideals more than they describe actual courses of personal religion. Criticizing two well-known theories, this paper offers a conceptual framework for investigating spiritual evolution scientifically. Based on developmental psychology, the theories in question place everyone, regardless of culture or personality, on a single evolutionary path. By contrast, I argue that the diversity and cultural rel…
Reply to Barnes and Kahoe
Let me thank Michael Barnes and Richard Kahoe for some helpful criticisms. In the space allotted, I want to clarify differences in my perspective and theirs, commenting on three important issues they have raised for the study of religious development. 1. The relationship between the goals of particular traditions and a scientific theory of religious development. Barnes's opening sentence misconstrues my position (Kwilecki, 1988a: 309-13). I do no…
Religious-Moral Development
Journal Article Religious-Moral Development: A Case Study of Two Black Baptists Get access Susan Kwilecki Susan Kwilecki Susan Kwilecki is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 439–468, https://d…
Was Mother Teresa Maximizing Her Utility? An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory
Susan Kwilecki, Loretta S. Wilson, Was Mother Teresa Maximizing Her Utility? An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 205-221
Spiritual Intelligence as a Theory of Individual Religion
This article considers the utility of Emmons's theory of "spiritual intelligence" for the analysis of the religions of individuals. The hypothesis is divided into a proposed description, explanation, and assessment of the consequences of personal faith. The spiritual biography of Gladys Day, a contemporary African American Pentecostal, provides an empirical format for the consideration of each formulation. Accordingly, the "core components" recei…
Becoming Religious
Journal Article Becoming Religious: Understanding Devotion to the Unseen, by Susan Kwilecki. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1999, 269 pp., $46.00 Get access James V. Spickard James V. Spickard University of Redlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 3, Fall 2000, Pages 343–344, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712586 Published: 01 October 2000
Religion and Coping
Freud and Marx pegged religion as a beguiling painkiller. Recent social scientific research has exposed the not-so-simple reality of religious coping, identifying differential usage, means, and outcomes. Appropriately, psychologists, many with clinical training, lead the way. This article is a contribution from religious studies. It describes two thus far neglected modes of religious coping that are prominent in traditions and distinctly represen…
Twenty-First-Century American Ghosts
This paper examines a recent arrival on the American pop cultural scene, a type of ghost encounter called After-Death Communications (ADCs). Delivered in dreams, visions, voices, odors, coincidences, etc., these cheerful greetings from deceased loved ones help bereaved survivors cope with their loss. Since the Enlightenment, spirits of the dead have become increasingly irrelevant to collective life. The new phantoms, however, are assigned roles i…
Ghosts, Meaning, and Faith
After-death communications (ADCs) are reported encounters with a deceased loved one, a contemporary type of ghost experience heralded as therapeutic in coping with bereavement. Pertinent literature generally illustrates the healing power of ADCs with brief self-contained episodes. The functions of ADCs over the course of grief need exploration. To that end, this article analyzes 20 published book-length autobiographical stories of bereavement in …
New Light on a Lost Cause
The American tragedy of slavery and the Civil War provides the backdrop for the exemplary spirituality of Atticus Haygood (1839-1896). The son of a Georgia slaveholder, Haygood served as a chaplain in the Confederate army. At the War's end, he returned to Atlanta to suffer poverty and humiliation under the martial law of conquerors. His spirituality developed as a positive response to the chaos of Reconstruction. Following a mid-life transformati…
The Soul Contract Theodicy
This article delineates a contemporary New Age explanation of human suffering and illustrates its application to the loss of a child. Founded on belief in reincarnation and the progressive evolution of souls, the soul contract theodicy depicts personal misfortunes as fated in pre-birth plans, or contracts, which souls supposedly create to accelerate growth in an upcoming incarnation. Descriptions of the soul-planning process are considered from p…
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