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Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy
2016. Vol. 24, no. 5, 56–71
https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2016240504
ISSN: 2075-3470 / 2311-9446 (online)

Spiritual Practices and the Language Problem

 
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Abstract

In this article a new approach to the interpretation of religious-mystical experience, which bases on a notion of “mystical practice” as specific underclass of spiritual practices, is being tried out. An analysis of anthropological concepts, in which the practices of constructing oneself are central, is being held (M. Foucault, P. Ado). A role of spiritual practices and spiritual exercises in constructing person’s consti- tution is being outlined. Problems of spiritual practice language, interconnections between apophatic and kataphatic interpretation of experience and of definition of spiritual tradition as a certain communicative dimension are being raised.

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Keywords: anthropology of religion, spiritual practices, spiritual exercises, synergetic anthropology

Journal rubric: Psychology of Faith, Christian Psychology and Psychotherapy

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2016240504

Funding. The research has been supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities (grant № 14-03-00109 “Anthropological Diagnostics of Modern Social Reality on the Bases of Synergic Anthropology”) at the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “Institute of Synergic Anthropology”.

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For citation: Vasilyev, P.S. (2016). Spiritual Practices and the Language Problem. Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24(5), 56–71. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2016240504

© Vasilyev P.S., 2016

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Pavel S. Vasilyev, Master's Student, RSUH, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: keng@live.ru

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