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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Delaney, Mary Katherine

Titel

The emergent construct of spiritual intelligence: The synergy of science and spirit

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

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Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This qualitative study investigated the emerging language of spiritual intelligence. Erickson's analytic induction method was used on data collected from a Lexis-Nexis search of the printed media using the key search terms ‘spiritual intelligence’, ‘religion and psychology’ and ‘'spirituality and psychology’, and from the discourse of 7 spiritually oriented therapeutic conferences. The analysis of the Lexis-Nexis search and conference documents was conducted separately from the analysis of fieldwork transcripts in order to compare and contrast preliminary empirical assertions about the language of spiritual intelligence. Three broad categories, known as global assertions, and five overarching principles, known as assertions, were found. An underlying assumption of this study is that language constructs reality, which is the framework for the 3 global assertions: (a) spiritual intelligence emerged from the discourse of spirituality, and spirituality emerged from the discourse of religion; (b) spiritual intelligence is a holistic intelligence; and (c) spiritual intelligence is an inclusive construct. Five assertions, (a) the key to developing spiritual intelligence is to value diversity, (b) spiritual intelligence defines reality as multidimensional, (c) consciousness includes multiple ways of knowing, (d) people with spiritual intelligence have a distinctive relationship with the world around them, and (e) rituals are vehicles for spiritual intelligence, were found with near uniformity in all the data sources. This study provides strong support for Kathleen D. Noble's definition of spiritual intelligence.