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Consciousness in Oscillation

Worldviews and their Transcendence as Spiritual Practice

by Sonja Lenk (Author)
©2013 Thesis 179 Pages

Summary

The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual’s lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. At the centre of attention is a group of individuals and their unfolding life-stories as they move through a journey of transformation, seeking to explore and understand the complexity of their own consciousness. The emphasis is on the embodiment of belief systems and the individuals’ inherent existential power to transcend cultural precepts. Methodologically, the study is based in phenomenological anthropology. It thus employs the first-person perspective and includes subjective personal experience as primary data.

Details

Pages
179
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653030921
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631642757
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03092-1
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (November)
Keywords
The individual Religion Embodiment and agency Spirituality
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 179 pp.

Biographical notes

Sonja Lenk (Author)

Sonja Lenk, PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews (UK); MA in Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg (Germany); Research interests: consciousness, worldviews, the individual, embodiment, Buddhism, meditation and cosmopolitanism.

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