What is transcendence, how did it evolve, and is it beneficial?

Gorelik, Gregory; Shackelford, Todd K.

doi:10.1080/2153599x.2016.1249928

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“…The present study argues that religion has a transcendental social capacity that encourages religious service attendees to engage with other people and causes beyond their immediate social environment. Gorelik and Shackelford (2017) maintain that communal rituals induce "selfless identification" (362) with a group that creates mutual trust and commitment among group members and across generations. Dein (2020) argues that from the evolutionary point of view, religious rituals composed of music, chanting, and dancing build social ties and enhance largescale cooperation.…”

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Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom

Son

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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The study uses nationally representative data to examine whether the moral freighting Putnam and Campbell (2010) propose, based on American experiences, may apply to overall British society. Specifically, it tests whether religious service attendance increases religious or secular organizational activities, possibly due to moral freighting that encourages religious congregants to practice their faith, transcending ego boundaries and self‐interest. It is also necessary to determine if engagement in religious or secular organizational activities elevates the degree of religious service attendance, thus forming a bidirectional association. The study employs the maximum likelihood‐structural equation modeling (ML‐SEM) method to verify the proposed reciprocity. The empirical tests confirm that a synergistic reciprocal relationship is established between religious service attendance and religious organizational engagement, and that religious service attendance increases secular organizational engagement. However, secular organizational engagement does not make a bidirectional contribution to religious service attendance.

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Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom

Son

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Unlike other traditional psychological and/or achievement-related constructs (e.g., the concept of ‘optimal best practice’) ( Fraillon, 2004 ; Mascolo et al, 2010 ; Phan and Ngu, 2021 ; Granero-Gallegos et al, 2023 ), spiritual transcendence is somewhat difficult for us to envisage, define, measure, and/or assess. Both Western and Eastern literatures do consider and have delved into the theoretical nature of transcendence ( Maslow, 1969 ; Ruschmann, 2011 ; Gorelik and Shackelford, 2017 ; Llanos and Martínez Verduzco, 2022 ). For example, according to Levin and Steele (2005) , transcendence is defined as subjective awareness and is something that is “beyond perception and beyond understanding” (p. 89).…”

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Advancing the study of life and death education: theoretical framework and research inquiries for further development

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Life and death education, also known as life education and death education, is an interesting subject that may coincide with the subject of lifespan development. In brief, from our theoretical perspective, which guides our teaching and curriculum development, life education considers personal understanding of life functioning on a daily basis, whereas death education explores matters that are related to death and dying. For example, how can a social worker utilize his life knowledge, or life wisdom, to assist a relative to understand the intricate nature of death? In a similar vein, how can a senior citizen use her personal experience of Buddhist meditation practice to overcome a minor Covid setback? Central to our teaching practice is the premise of ‘active transformation’ (i.e., transforming life knowledge into positive practice) and the premise of ‘theoretical infusion’ (e.g., the infusion of a distinctive epistemological belief in the teaching of life) that would, in turn, help to enhance and facilitate deep, meaningful understanding of life and death. The purpose of the present article is for us to discuss a proposition of a theoretical-conceptual model, which depicts the ‘unification’ or integration of three major viewpoints of life and death: the social viewpoint, the philosophical viewpoint, and the psychological viewpoint. We theorize that unification of the three theoretical viewpoints may help provide grounding for effective teaching and holistic understanding of the subject contents of life and death. Such discourse, importantly, may also assist to advance the scope and complexity of the lifespan development subject. Finally, in addition to our theoretical-conceptual model of life and death, we propose three major research inquiries for development: the meaning of situated mindset, the underlying nature of spiritual transcendence, and proposition of appropriate methodological accounts for usage. Overall, then, we purport that our conceptual analysis and discussion overview, based on philosophical reflection, may serve to stimulate interest, intellectual curiosity, scholarly dialog, etc.

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“…As Gorelik and Shakelford (2017, p. 4) note, defining transcendence is somewhat problematic: Understanding just what transcendence is remains a problem. Although we believe that selflessness is a key aspect of many, if not all, types of transcendent experience, it is probably not a sufficient marker of transcendence (e.g., there is no sense of self during deep sleep or death, yet we would not call these states ‘transcendent’).…”

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Transcendence, religion and social bonding

Dein

2020

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

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This article examines the relationship between religion, transcendence and social bonding. I speculate that the capacity to undergo transcendent experiences facilitated social bonding. Following a discussion of Gorelik’s typology of transcendence, it examines the relationship between ritual, transcendence and bonding with an emphasis on singing, dancing and synchrony. It then moves on to explore theory of mind and transcendence. Finally, transcendent emotions like compassion, admiration, gratitude, love and awe will be discussed. I conclude by arguing that transcendence originates from group-level selection.

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What is transcendence, how did it evolve, and is it beneficial?

Cited by 6 publications

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Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom

Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom

Advancing the study of life and death education: theoretical framework and research inquiries for further development

Transcendence, religion and social bonding

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