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panspirituality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der. Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor. English pan- Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin spīritālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Late Latin spīrituālitāsder. Middle French spiritualitéder. English spirituality English panspirituality From pan- + spirituality.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of finding the spiritual manifest throughout the physical universe.
    • These include: 1) the idealist treatment of science in terms of concepts and problems (Eucken's "Geistiger Posirivismus"); 2) varieties of the neo-Comtean program of naturalistic metaphysics, which often included Spinoza-like claims of panspirituality in the hands of the Leipzig Positivists and the Monist League (Wilhelm Ostwald figured prominently in both groups); 3) the extension of norms of particular sciences to culture, such as medical ideas of health and pathology, as one finds in Kraepelin's notion of the "social body" or the social Darwinist prescriptions in the Zeitschriftfiir Soziahinssenschaft;... 1999 September, David Lindenfeld, “Book Reviews”, in Central European History, volume 32, number 3:
    • For example, while over 70 percent of Korean Americans belong to Korean Christian churches (Kim, 1996), others have maintained traditional beliefs rooted in panspirituality and sometimes feel that they share liitle with Korean American Christians. 1999, Mark A. Mattaini, Clinical Intervention with Families, page 71:
    • Conversely, Protestant morality in the nineteenth century and a secular spirituality or panspirituality in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have often defined the feminine forms of domestic fiction. 2010, Kristin J. Jacobson, Neodomestic American Fiction, page 137:

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