Peter C. Jupp

A Sociology of Spirituality

Herausgeber: Flanagan, Kieran

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to assess the significance of spirituality in the sociology of religion. The authors explore the relationship of spirituality to the visual, individualism, gender, identity politics, education and cultural capital. The relationship between secularisation and spirituality is examined and consideration is given to the significance of Simmel in relation to a sociology of spirituality. Problems of defining spirituality are debated with reference to its expression in the UK, the USA, France and Holland. This timely, original and well structured volume provides undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers with a scholarly appraisal of a phenomenon that can only increase in sociological significance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781409402596
• ISBN-10: 1409402592
• Artikelnr.: 30875007

Autorenporträt

Kieran Flanagan is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. Peter C. Jupp is Golders Green Foundation Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Durham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Kieran Flanagan
Spirituality: some disciplinary perspectives, Peter R. Holmes
The Spiritual Revolution: Another False Dawn for the Sacred, David Voas and Steve Bruce
The holistic milieu and spirituality: reflections on Voas and Bruce, Paul Heelas
Beyond secularisation versus sacralisation: lessons from a study of the Dutch case, André Droogers
Spirituality on the margin of the Church: Christian spiritual centres in The Netherlands, Peter Versteeg
Why so many women in holistic spirituality? A puzzle revisited, Linda Woodhead
Contentious headscarves: spirituality and the state in the 21st century, Paul Chambers
Georg Simmel: religion and spirituality, Ivan Varga
Spirituality: from a religious concept to a sociological theory, Giuseppe Giordan
In search of spiritual capital: the spiritual as a cultural resource, Mathew Guest
The embodied spirituality of the post-boomer generations, Richard W. Flory and Donald E. Miller
Visual spirituality: an eye for religion, Kieran Flanagan
Conclusion, Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp
Index.