UNIT 9 Flashcards
1
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quest for meaning
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- search for ultimate knowledge of life through an individualized understanding of the sacred
2
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spirituality
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- an individual’s personal quest for meaning
- inner process often distinguished from religiosity, which involves outward signs of a quest for meaning
- personal experience and individual practice
3
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self-transcendence
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- knowing the self as part of a larger whole that exists beyond the physical body and personal history
- awareness of the oneself as part of a larger whole
4
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gerotranscendence
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- idea that meaning systems increase in quality as we age
- meaning systems increase in quality as we age
5
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postformal stages
Riegel
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- adult stage of cognitive development that involves thinking beyond the linear and logical ways
6
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religiosity
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- outward expression of spiritual beliefs
7
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moral reasoning
Kohlberg
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- analyzing what is right and what is wrong, judging the rightness or wrongness of an act
8
Q
decentering
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- cognitive movement outward from the self
9
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faith
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- a set of assumptions or understanding about the nature of our connections with others and the world in which we live
10
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- synthetic-conventional faith
Fowler stages of faith
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- adolescence to early adulthood
- Implicit assumption that authority is to be found outside oneself
- First in adolescence and then continues well into early adulthood
- Many adults remain within this form
- danger: comfortable taking in the norm of society
- transition: questioning own ideas and personality
11
Q
- individuative-reflective faith
Fowler stages of faith
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- young adulthood
- Requires an interruption of reliance on an external source of authority
- Relocation of authority from external to internal
- Many adults reject or move away from faith community they belong
- Can occur without rejection
- Reexamines old assumptions
- Responsibility in a new way
- Choose groups based on our beliefs and values
- danger: only committed to this problem
- transition: question other beliefs
12
Q
- conjuctive faith
Fowler stages of faith
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- midlife
- Opening outward from the self-preoccupation of the individuative reflective level
- Search for balance
- There are MANY TRUTHS - for other people
- strength: personal faith but everybody different
- danger: lack of definitiveness
- transition: universality and connection
13
Q
- universalizing faith
Fowler stages of faith
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- old age
- Involves a step beyond individuality
- Open and integrated but is still struggling with the paradox of searching for universality
- connects us all
- sense of our own self
14
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self-preoccupation
Reker meaning of life
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- financial security
- meeting basic needs
15
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individualism
Reker meaning of life
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- personal growth
- achievement, creativity, leisure
16
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collectivism
Reker meaning of life
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- traditions and culture
- social causes
17
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self-transcendence
Reker meaning of life
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- enduring values, ideals, religious activities
- altruism