“Meditation madness”: meditation’s popularity, popular religion and unsupervised religion
Publications have used pathologizing language when reporting a boom in the popularity of meditation practices: a ‘meditation madness’. I argue that analysing the intellectual roots of the category ‘popular religion’ improves our understanding of debates about the status of meditation and its potenti...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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Culture and religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-45 |
Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B spiritual-but-not-religious B Meditation B Psychology B folk religion / popular B Secularisation |
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