Miller, G. (2013) Resisting self-spirituality: counselling as spirituality in the dialogues of Hans Schauder and Marcus Lefébure. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 28(1), pp. 125-140. (doi: 10.1080/13537903.2013.750850)
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Abstract
In the 1980s, a short series of dialogues on counselling between Hans Schauder (1911–2001), a medically trained counsellor, and Marcus Lefébure (1933–2012), a Roman Catholic monk, were published in the UK. These dialogues present counselling as a form of contemporary spirituality, arguing that counselling facilitates spiritual experience and that psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic concepts can be understood in spiritual terms. However, the dialogues also present a critique of the authorisation of subjectivity within both counselling and spirituality; in so doing, they anticipate and elaborate later criticisms of Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead's spiritual revolution thesis. The resistance in the Schauder–Lefébure dialogues to Self-spirituality indicates that they align more with politically critical progressive spirituality than with accommodationist capitalist spirituality.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Miller, Dr Gavin |
| Authors: | Miller, G. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Contemporary Religion |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISSN: | 1353-7903 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1469-9419 |
| Published Online: | 11 January 2013 |
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