The Holy Spirit as Conscience Collective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2591096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew P Lawson (College of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 341 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3712020 |
| OpenAlex | W2093694371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 11 |
Catholic Charismatics often talk about “God,” “Jesus,” “the Holy Spirit,” or simply “the Lord” as an active partner in interaction. Most sociologists regard such statements as outside the epistemological purview of an empirical discipline; God is relegated to the inaccessible domain of the “specifically religious.” In this paper I suggest that “the Holy Spirit” is a manifestation of a learnable pattern of social interaction that may generate a superindividual dialogic unity, what Durkheim called a conscience collective, or what has more recently been called shared or distributed cognition. The internalization of this intersubjective process then becomes the basis for the intrasubjective experience of dialogue with the divine
Conscience · Dialogic · Epistemology · Intersubjectivity · Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |