First as Sociology, Then as Geography: A Review Essay on Steven Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus's New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion
This essay reviews Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus's New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion. It shows that their attempt to redefine religion through new age spiritualities is actually an attempt to impose an economically elite social geography onto religious studies as a soci...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2015]
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-43 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New age spirituality
/ Religion
/ Definition
/ New Age
/ Spirituality
/ Religious sociology
/ Religious geography
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AZ New religious movements |
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| Summary: | This essay reviews Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus's New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion. It shows that their attempt to redefine religion through new age spiritualities is actually an attempt to impose an economically elite social geography onto religious studies as a social fact. My central argument is that this effort in turn reveals that religious studies serves as a sociological factory for liberal economic ideologies. It suggests that to mitigate this ideological work, a shift toward critical geography in religious studies is the way forward. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v44i1.26862 |