Transcendent Experiences

Roy, Louis

doi:10.3138/9781442682733

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“…Finally, our findings support other ideas about transcendent experiences proposed by Roy (2001), who stated that transcendent experiences can "shed light," "transform," and "motivate" (pp. 8, 149).…”

Section: Connections With Previous Research and Theorysupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Related integrative processes include (a) personal religious experiences involving or influencing couple and family relationships, or (b) couple or family religious experiences involving or influencing their relationships. Second, our findings support Roy's (2001) final element of transcendent experience, fruit. For many of our participants, relational change was a reported "fruit" or outcome of transcendent experience.…”

Section: Connections With Previous Research and Theorysupporting

confidence: 65%

“…While transcendent experiences may be relatively common, these experiences seem more likely to occur at particular times. Roy (2001) stated, "It is true that the divine can be found everywhere, but if people do not find it in particular, pregnant episodes, they are likely to find it nowhere" (p. 150). We propose that profound hardships, crises, and challenges are among Roy's "pregnant episodes" and Slater's (1981) times of "external pressure."…”

Section: Adversity As a Priming Event For Transformative Transcendencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We next discuss these ideas in the context of three models: Roy's (2001) six elements of transcendent experience, Swenson's (2009) attributional model of spirituality, and Patterson's (1988) Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response model. Roy (2001) proposed six elements of transcendent experience: preparation, occasion, feeling, discovery, interpretation, and fruit. Adversity could be considered an element of preparation or occasion.…”

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How Relationship-Enhancing Transcendent Religious Experiences during Adversity Can Encourage Relational Meaning, Depth, Healing, and Action

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Research on the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health suggests that religious involvement can help people deal with various kinds of adversity. Although there has been a great deal of work on the influence of religious involvement and religious and spiritual practices on physical, mental, and relational health, there exists a gap in the theoretical and empirical literature about the potential benefits of transcendent religious experiences on marriage and family relationships. We report some findings from a study of in-depth interviews with 198 religious American exemplar families from diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds. The religious-ethnic make-up of the sample included: African American Christian (13%), Asian Christian (12%), Catholic and Orthodox Christian (11%), White Evangelical Christian (12%), White Mainline Christian (10%), Latter-day Saint (LDS, Mormon), (14%), Jewish (16%), and Muslim (12%). Systematic group coding resulted in the findings that, during times of adversity, transcendent religious experiences reportedly (a) provided relational meaning, (b) increased relational depth, (c) healed relational hurt, and (d) encouraged relational action. We suggest implications for theory, research, clinical practice, and pastoral work.

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Section: Connections With Previous Research and Theorysupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Connections With Previous Research and Theorysupporting

confidence: 65%

Section: Adversity As a Priming Event For Transformative Transcendencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adversity As a Priming Event For Transformative Transcendencementioning

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“…Transcendent experiences are unexpected or unusual spiritual and religious experiences that are beyond daily, normal experience. Roy () stated, “A transcendent experience can be characterized as an event in which individuals, by themselves or in a group, have the impression that they are in contact with something boundless and limitless, which they cannot grasp, and which utterly surpasses human capacities” (p. xi). Typically, such experiences are considered sacred.…”

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Why Religion Helps and Harms Families: A Conceptual Model of a System of Dualities at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

Dollahite

Marks

Dalton

2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Evidence suggests that religion can both help and harm families. We posit that a central reason for these divergent outcomes is a system of dualities at the nexus of religion and family. We propose a conceptual framework of a dynamic system of religious and relational dualities. We propose eight dualities: (a) transcendent and mundane spiritual experiences may affect families, (b) families may experience God as a close confidant and an authority figure, (c) religion in families may involve accepting and refusing actions, (d) religion in families may include religious expectations and relational compensators, (e) religion in families may generate and address relational struggles, (f) religion in families may be relationally divisive and unifying, (g) religion in families may bring perplexing mysteries and profound meanings, and (h) religion in families may be a transforming and a maintaining influence. We discuss how these dualities lead to outcomes that help and harm families.

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How Relationship-Enhancing Transcendent Religious Experiences during Adversity Can Encourage Relational Meaning, Depth, Healing, and Action

How Relationship-Enhancing Transcendent Religious Experiences during Adversity Can Encourage Relational Meaning, Depth, Healing, and Action

Why Religion Helps and Harms Families: A Conceptual Model of a System of Dualities at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

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