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Self-assertion
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[German Version]

Self-assertion can involve (1) individuals and (2) groups.

1. Self-assertion of an individual person is his or her effort to maintain the constitution he has achieved in the course of his personal formation as a self, guided and motivated a particular self-image, endowed with certain faculties of experience, processing of experience, and action, against demands for change made in the course of his development from the dimension of his relationship to the environment, his self, and the world or the circumstances of …

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Herms, Eilert, “Self-assertion”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_025440>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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