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" Epistemological and Ontological Elements of Transpersonal Human Development in the Qur'an "
Ahmed J. Alwani
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804504
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TL49335
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1897516311; 10593005
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Schiemer, L. Janelle Elle Ellis
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Epistemological and Ontological Elements of Transpersonal Human Development in the Qur'an\ Ahmed J. Alwani
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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2014
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Ph.D.
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Adult Learning and Human Resource Development
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2014
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113
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-74093-6
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| Abstract
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This study opens with an introduction to the transpersonal orientation, which Boucouvalas presents as a meta-framework of the transpersonal field that includes individual, group/societal, and planetary/cosmic domains. Three major theoretical perspectives of the field framed the study: the hierarchical stages of development, spiral path, and participatory. I offer a philosophical hermeneutic reading of the Qur’an to trace the development of human collective consciousness as a construct of the interaction between the autonomous and homonomous self at the individual, group, and cosmic levels on one plane of reality with the Divine on the other. This analysis, which utilizes Gadamer’s conceptualization of philosophical hermeneutics as a research philosophy, concludes that this process of collective human development is comprised of three clearly distinct representations: familial, national, and cosmic/planetary. I articulate development and growth as a process of the expansion of collective consciousness. The cosmic/planetary human consciousness represents the ultimate reach of this expansion, for it assimilates the national and familial types while simultaneously transforming and transcending them within its reach.
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Adult education; Developmental psychology; Spirituality
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Psychology;Education;Adult learning;Hermeneutics;Qur'anic hermeneutics;Spirituality;Transpersonal human development
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Adult Learning and Human Resource DevelopmentVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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