dc.contributor.author	Clayton, Anna Adelaide Wood
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-04T02:23:59Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-04T02:23:59Z
dc.date.issued	2013	en
dc.description.abstract	In spite of many indications to the contrary, not least the tenor of the times which includes both the remnant left after the "death of God" as well as the rise of New Age religiosity, this thesis proposes, using feminist and feminine archetypal thinking, that the theory of culture that Christianity, and specifically Catholicism, formulates, is more relevant than ever for the culture it had a part in creating. Within the frame of Christian value reality, a "religion of relatedness" is centred on the Great Commandment which orders loving relatedness to God, then to oneself, and finally to others. What this has to mean in practice is that our relatedness to others depends on our relatedness with ourselves which depends on our relatedness to a beneficent God. Our relatedness to ourselves and to God can be appreciated and evaluated through the lens of Jungian thought - in particular Jung's theory of individuation. Our relatedness to others and the success of that as expressed in the health of our cultural milieu can be appreciated and evaluated through the lens of Lacanian discourse theory. Both individual and cultural growth are part of a developmental and maturation process leading to the "paradox, depth and intergenerational responsibility" that Fowler (1981) describes as characteristic of a Stage 5 level of faith in his Stages of Faith model. That complexity in Stage 5 understanding is seen as essential for growing out of the social and environmental problems that beset human life at this point in its history.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8919
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/4254
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Canterbury. Language, Social and Political Sciences	en
dc.relation.isreferencedby	NZCU	en
dc.rights	Copyright Anna Adelaide Wood Clayton	en
dc.rights.uri	https://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/theses	en
dc.subject	religion	en
dc.subject	relatedness	en
dc.subject	Catholicism	en
dc.subject	Jung	en
dc.subject	Lacan	en
dc.subject	Fowler's stages of faith	en
dc.subject	individuation	en
dc.subject	emergence	en
dc.title	A religion of relatedness: transformation through the appreciation of difference	en
dc.type	Theses / Dissertations
thesis.degree.discipline	Religious Studies
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Canterbury	en
thesis.degree.level	Doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy	en
uc.bibnumber	1988972
uc.college	Faculty of Arts	en

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