Based on over one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, this book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. It argues that spirituality plays an important role in the making of activists and has the potential for changing the social order.
Based on over one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, this book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. It argues that spirituality plays an important role in the making of activists and has the potential for changing the social order.
Gregory C. Stanczak was a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Williams College from 2004–2006 and is a research fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.
Inhaltsangabe
Bridging the gap: the split between spirituality and society Biography, behavior, and belief: the sources of spirituality Acting on faith: social roles in expressing spirituality Keeping the faith in action: cultivating spiritual practice Experience and emotion: the influence of spiritual feelings Degrees of social integration: toward a theory of engaged spirituality Lived spirituality and the gamut of social action
Bridging the gap: the split between spirituality and society Biography, behavior, and belief: the sources of spirituality Acting on faith: social roles in expressing spirituality Keeping the faith in action: cultivating spiritual practice Experience and emotion: the influence of spiritual feelings Degrees of social integration: toward a theory of engaged spirituality Lived spirituality and the gamut of social action
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