Phenomenological view of spirituality at school

Abstract

The article compares the phenomenological content of the concepts “spirituality” and “religiousness”. For this purpose the person’s spiritual experience is described by means of a phenomenological method. The author distinguishes the essential content of spirituality, peak spiritual experiences on the basis of the structural model of existention developed by the Austrian psychotherapist Professor A. Lengle. The article touches upon the ways to spirituality, and also procedural laws of the transformation of spirituality into religiousness. It also brings forward some parallels between A. Lengle’s doctrine and the descriptions of religious experiences of the Russian religious philosopher S.L. Frank.