Galen Watts (Banting Fellow, Banting Fellow, Centre for Sociologica

Spiritual Turn

The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780192859839
• ISBN-10: 0192859838
• Artikelnr.: 63953156

Autorenporträt

Galen Watts is a Banting Fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for Sociological Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Spiritual Turn
1: From 'Religion' to 'Spirituality'
2: A Brief History of the Religion of the Heart
3: 'Spirituality' Today
Part II: Romantic Liberal Modernity
4: The 1960s and the Rise of Romantic Liberalism
5: The Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity
6: Mapping the Romantic Liberal Institutional Order
7: Romantic Liberal Modernity and Its Critics
Part III: The Romantic Liberal Subject: An Ethnographic Snapshot
8: Moral Reform and Shifting Involvements at a Twelve-Step Group
9: Prosperity and Positivity at a 'Greedy Institution'
10: Public Performance and Political Ambivalences at a Public Speaking Club
11: Conclusion: Seeing Ourselves Anew
Appendix: Research Methods
Bibliography