An Adult Educator’s Hard Look at a Not-So-Soft Space: Spirituality, Religion and Critical Edges
Spirituality has become an important area of study and practice for those interested in adult education. Yet, the interest of scholars and practitioners is often confined to the positive aspects of the topic and is often devoid of questions, challenges and criticality. This essay carefully examines...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2014
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Journal for the Study of Spirituality
Year: 2014, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-57 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Adult education B Race B Religion B Class B Gender |
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| Summary: | Spirituality has become an important area of study and practice for those interested in adult education. Yet, the interest of scholars and practitioners is often confined to the positive aspects of the topic and is often devoid of questions, challenges and criticality. This essay carefully examines the notion of spirituality and argues that a robust, critical and engaged understanding of the topic needs to incorporate insights from religion and the critical social sciences, insights that are necessarily difficult to manage and negotiate. The author offers cases of the intersection of spirituality and gender, race and conflict, as a way to highlight the complexity of spirituality, and to argue for continuous engagement with its contradictions and challenges. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-0251 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the Study of Spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/2044024314Z.00000000020 |