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James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development, and the Center for Ethics until he retired in 2005.
The best-known stage model of spiritual or religious development is that of James W. Fowler, a developmental psychologist at the Candler School of Theology, in his Stages of Faith. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] He follows Piaget and Kohlberg and has proposed a holistic staged development of faith (or spiritual development) across the lifespan.
Nancy Fowler, a housewife in Conyers, Georgia began reporting religious visions of Jesus in 1988. [1] In 1990, her claims evolved to include apparitions of Mary, the mother of Jesus. These apparitions were accompanied by messages from the Virgin Mary which primarily emphasized themes of repentance , prayer , and conversion . [ 1 ]
This grid integrates theories and ideas detailing the individual's psychological and spiritual development, collective shifts in consciousness, and levels or holons in neurological functioning and societal organization. Integral theory aims to be a universal metatheory in which all academic disciplines, forms of knowledge, and experiences ...
Three degrees of influence is a theory in the realm of social networks, [1] proposed by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler in 2007. This argument is basically that peer effects need not stop at one degree of separation.
Rambo [3] provides a model for conversion that classifies it as a highly complex process that is hard to define. He views it as a process of religious change that is affected by an interaction of numerous events, experiences, ideologies, people, institutions, and how these different experiences interact and accumulate over time.
It consists of a very brief sketch of Fowler's ideas, followed by a very long critique that is charged with controversial terms and claims. There should really be some attempt to more fully describe Fowler's work (the stages are based not merely on Kohlberg, but also on extensive interviews done by Fowler and his students).
The theories could be updated, however, by considering new reports, which Robert Ranulph Marett (1866–1943) did for Tylor's theory of the evolution of religion. Field workers deliberately sent out by universities and other institutions to collect specific cultural data made available a much greater database than random reports.