Practice Makes Perfect: Meditation and the Exchange of Spiritual Capital

Despite its ubiquity, the term ‘'spiritual capital' continues to lack a sufficient level of empirical scrutiny to merit categorical independence from its religious variant. To remedy this gap, this article presents an ethnographic study of a meditation group called the Dhyana Centre, situa...

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Published in:Journal of contemporary religion
Main Author: Arat, Alp (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax Publ. [2016]
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-280
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B London / Meditation / Yoga / Wikiversity:Courses / Spirituality / Symbolic capital
Further subjects:B Religious Capital
B Bourdieu
B Spiritual Capital
B Meditation
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