Re-enchantment, Markets, and the Post-secular Self: Spirituality after Spiritualities
The meaning of spirituality has undergone significant changes in recent decades as it shifted from traditional religious understanding to personal meanings embedded in new religious movements, New Age explorations, and everyday life. These changes can be understood in terms of contextual transformat...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 31, Pages: 21-42 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cultural sciences
B Religious sociology B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft B Gender studies |
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| Summary: | The meaning of spirituality has undergone significant changes in recent decades as it shifted from traditional religious understanding to personal meanings embedded in new religious movements, New Age explorations, and everyday life. These changes can be understood in terms of contextual transformations that are conceptualized as postmodern and also recently debated as post-secular. Central to these changes is the notion of the self as an explorer of the inner being. Postmodern fragmentation contributes to a displacement of outer authenticity by the commodification of inner searches which also forms part of a disengagement from broader traditional structures and belief systems. It has led to a proliferation of spiritualities promoting self-searches in eclectic ways. However, confrontation between the material and spiritual may be leading to new searches that will redefine the self and its relationship to the sacred in post-secularity. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443969_003 |