Religious Genius

Goshen-Gottstein, Alon

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“…Following studies of spiritual masters (Sharma & Kennick, 2012) defined by those authors as individuals who “authoritatively teach traditions” and “support religious vitality” (p. 28), spiritual exemplars (Scarlett, 2012) who, according to Scarlett, included Lincoln, Mother Teresa, John Muir, Nelson Mandela, and Atticus Haygood, and religious geniuses (Goshen-Gottstein, 2017), defined by that author as individuals who bring about “deep transformation within a religious tradition” (p. 12), were mainly based on second-hand textual descriptions of historical and well-known religious and public figures. These studies focused on their figures’ character traits, actions, and teachings, such as founding, reforming, or revolutionizing a tradition or institution, and/or their being “apt to have accomplished a great deal and been successful in their missions” (Scarlett, 2012), rather than on their figures’ experience.…”

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“…These studies focused on their figures’ character traits, actions, and teachings, such as founding, reforming, or revolutionizing a tradition or institution, and/or their being “apt to have accomplished a great deal and been successful in their missions” (Scarlett, 2012), rather than on their figures’ experience. The traits of the “religious genius,” described by Goshen-Gottstein (2017), include love, purity, humility, self-surrender and “expanded awareness of reality” (pp. 44–50).…”

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Living transcendence: A phenomenological study of spiritual exemplars.

Freimann,

Mayseless,

Hart

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The Humanistic Psychologist

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The aim of this study is to shed light on the experience of Living Transcendence, a relatively stabilized spiritual state considered in many religious traditions the pinnacle and holy grail of the search for the sacred. It explores how Living Transcendence is experienced by individuals, identified by others as spiritual exemplars having and evincing that experience. Multiple in-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted with 32 such individuals of different traditions and spiritual paths. Based on their analysis, four qualities of this experience are described: noetic (preconceptual, nondiscursive, and nonsymbolic knowing/awareness/consciousness of ultimate reality or truth), affective (supremely positive affective qualities of joy, happiness or bliss, and love), embodied (somatic and/or energetic presence or sense of a spiritual essence), and relational (a sense of connectivity or “inter-being” with everything, God, or the Whole). A characteristic of the experience of Living Transcendence is its constancy over time, amid and through the fluctuations of normal life and various crises. An additional characteristic is its association with an unusual type of volitionality, that is, the will to obey, surrender to, or be in service of a “calling.” While the presence and prominence of each of these qualities and characteristics vary between individuals, they appear to be facets of one essence. The experience of Living Transcendence appears to be constantly and consistently unitive, connective, and supremely positive, and to inextricably permeate all other experiences and contextualize them.

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Section: Peak Experiences Of Transcendence Versus Living Transcendencementioning

confidence: 99%

Living transcendence: A phenomenological study of spiritual exemplars.

Freimann,

Mayseless,

Hart

et al. 2024

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Judaism and Interreligious Co-evolution: A Retrospective Reading

Goshen-Gottstein

2020

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This introductory essay is my attempt to offer a reading of the corpus that provides the basis for the essays in the present issue of Contemporary Jewry. The books that form the basis for reflections divide into two categories-collaborative interfaith projects and studies in Jewish theology of religions. Beyond this division, I identify a common approach that is theologically informed and that sees religions as evolving entities that reach toward fulfillment of their higher purpose. I propose application of the term "coevolution," drawn from the field of biology and evolutionary theory but increasingly applied to the social sciences, as a means of describing the interdependence between religions. My application considers coevolution to be purposeful toward a higher goal. In this light, advances in interreligious understanding, collaboration, and theology all contribute not only to a more peaceful society but also to the actual growth in religions toward their own stated spiritual ideals and goals.

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The God of Abraham, Yitzhak, and Yonatan: Goshen-Gottstein on Heschel, Greenberg, and Sacks

Korn¹

2020

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Religious Genius

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Living transcendence: A phenomenological study of spiritual exemplars.

Living transcendence: A phenomenological study of spiritual exemplars.

Judaism and Interreligious Co-evolution: A Retrospective Reading

The God of Abraham, Yitzhak, and Yonatan: Goshen-Gottstein on Heschel, Greenberg, and Sacks

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