Death, Spirituality, and a New Contextualised Model of Consolation
This article argues that in the academic study of spirituality, more attention is needed for consolation, understood as a human practice. It uses Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia, the earliest surviving sustained Latin consolation, as an example to ground and illustrate the development and refinement...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2023
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Studies in spirituality
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Pages: 61-86 |
| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality RG Pastoral care TB Antiquity VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This article argues that in the academic study of spirituality, more attention is needed for consolation, understood as a human practice. It uses Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia, the earliest surviving sustained Latin consolation, as an example to ground and illustrate the development and refinement of a convincing account of consolation. The article presents and defends a new comprehensive model of consolation (‘Contextualised Model of Consolation’) that differentiates clearly between the context of consolation (ideally, a comforting encounter in which grief can be expressed, recognised and accepted) and consolation in the narrower sense: a highly cognitive practice that proceeds along five thematic axes (underscoring the consoland’s resilience; regulating the consoland’s emotion through an ideal of ‘acceptable’ grief; establishing and celebrating the continued legacy of the deceased’s biography; formulating a therapeutic larger-scale worldview in which death has a legitimate place; and reconnecting the consoland to relevant communities, ranging from the family system to culture, nation and even humanity). |
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| ISSN: | 0926-6453 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/SIS.32.0.3292453 |