An Overview of Spiritual Identity from Western Psychologists’ Perspective: Can It Be spread?

Document Type : Review Paper

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PhD Student of Tehran University

Abstract

With the pluralistic perspective in this era, it seems more useful to focus on spiritual training rather than religious training, because if we see the spirituality as the common essence among religions, a common point of view is caught from the different approaches. In addition, international attention to the science of Spirituality in children and adolescents, as a factor that plays an important role in human development, is growing. It is necessary for this science topic to investigate the entrance of spirituality in the personal identity. This opportunity is one to take a look on Western psychological theories about spiritual identity. In this paper we address the need for spiritual identity, causes for its explanation complexity, definitions, relationship between spirituality and religion, individual or social spiritual identity, and finally factors related to spiritual identity.

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