Title: Language, Love, Alterity and Transcendence as a Model of Julia Kristeva’s Dynamic Spirituality
Subject Classification:  Religion and Faith, Philosophy, Education  
BIC Classification: HR, HP, JN
BISAC Classification: REL062000, PHI022000, EDU009000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 16 Oct 2024
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-872-7
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-873-4

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Description

Even an atheist has a spirituality. Spirituality can be considered as human, rather than narrowly religious. Many today call themselves ‘spiritual but not religious’. It is impossible to define, and so various limited models are suggested by researchers.

This book explores these issues and proposes a new model based upon the oeuvre of the Bulgarian/French semiologist, philosopher and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva. Kristeva is an atheist with a respect for religion, its valuing of the non-discursive, and its role in therapy. Her work is supplemented and contrasted by her peers, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. The author proposes a model, based on Kristeva’s work, where themes of Language, Love, Alterity and Transcendence interact to form what we call ‘spirituality’, rather than simply being unconnected aspects of it. Suggestions are given of how this resulting model can be applied to Secondary Education (Religious Education in particular), and also approaches to Healthcare Education.

Biography

Author(s):  Rev. Dr. Kevin George O’Donnell is a semi-retired priest of the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton, UK, also affiliated with the Basilica of Notre Dame de Pontmain in France, where he resides.

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