Spiritualities of Life: The Neglected Role of the Artistic Paradigm
This article takes up Heelas's notion of life' spirituality and extends it beyond New Age spiritualities to encompass expressivist values characteristic of contemporary mainstream culture, normally considered humanist' and secular'. This extension is justified by the integral...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2010]
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Journal of contemporary religion
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| Summary: | This article takes up Heelas's notion of life' spirituality and extends it beyond New Age spiritualities to encompass expressivist values characteristic of contemporary mainstream culture, normally considered humanist' and secular'. This extension is justified by the integral connection—neglected by Heelas—between the rise of these expressivist values and the emergence of a symbolic paradigm of expressivist art with strongly immanentist spiritual implications. In its expressivist form, art was imbued from its Romantic beginnings with spiritual immanentism and has remained, it is argued, the most significant channel for the diffusion of life spirituality. A focus on this paradigm and its implications for the world of the expressivist self—namely its cult of the phenomena of subjective experience—leads us to discover manifestations of life spirituality in contemporary culture that are enormously wider ranging than Heelas's New Age spiritualities. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537900903416846 |