The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity
North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectual history and political philosophy to examine this 'spiritual turn'.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Electronic books B Religion-Philosophy B Liberalism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780192859839 |
| Summary: | North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectual history and political philosophy to examine this 'spiritual turn'. Cover -- The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Retracing My Steps: Habits and the Spiritual Turn -- Toward a Cultural Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Liberal Democracies -- Émile Durkheim as Guide and Interlocutor -- The Story in Brief -- Overview of the Chapters -- PART I: THE SPIRITUAL TURN -- 1: From "Religion" to "Spirituality" -- Leslie Parker -- Amy Lee -- Michael Wallace -- Institutional Religion vs. Subjective Spirituality -- The Secularization Paradigm -- Cultural Approaches in the Sociology of Religion -- Focused Approaches -- Broad Approaches -- Beyond the Sociology of Religion -- A Cultural Sociological Approach to the Study of Religion -- Max Weber's Contribution: The Human Need for Meaning in Disenchanted Modernity -- Émile Durkheim's Contribution: The Sacred and Symbolicin Modern Life -- Toward a Cultural Sociology of "Spirituality" -- 2: A Brief History of the Religion of the Heart -- Why the Religion of the Heart? -- The Religion of the Heart in Historical Context -- Ernst Troeltsch's "Spiritual" or "Mystic" Religion -- A Third Way -- The Romantic Movement -- Metaphysical or Harmonial Religion -- The Triumph of the Therapeutic -- The 1960s Counter-Culture and Its Religious Wings -- The New Age Movement -- The Human Potential Movement -- The Charismatic Christian Movement -- Conclusion -- 3: "Spirituality" Today -- Experiential Epistemology -- Immanence of God or the Superempirical -- Benevolent God or Universe -- Redemptive Self as Theodicy -- Self-Realization as Teleology -- Self-Ethic (Voice from Within) -- Virtue Is Natural -- Sacralization of Individual Liberty -- Mind-Body-Spirit Connection -- Methodological Individualism -- Bringing Clarity to the Contemporary Religious Landscape. |
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| ISBN: | 0192676032 |