Connecting Their Selves: The Discourse of Karma, Calling, and Surrendering among Western Spiritual Practitioners in India
This article explores the ways in which long-term western spiritual practitioners settled in Puducherry, India reconstruct their selves as connected to the divine, the guru, and India through notions of karma, calling, and surrendering. Current work on spirituality takes an either/or approac...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Année: 2018, Volume: 86, Numéro: 4, Pages: 1014-1045 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
/ Européen
/ Américain
/ Karma
/ Soi
/ Spiritualité
/ Expérience religieuse
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion AG Vie religieuse BK Hindouisme KBM Asie |
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| Résumé: | This article explores the ways in which long-term western spiritual practitioners settled in Puducherry, India reconstruct their selves as connected to the divine, the guru, and India through notions of karma, calling, and surrendering. Current work on spirituality takes an either/or approach to spirituality and the selfeither the self-oriented quest for metaphysical meaning-making is seen to be consumerist and individualistic, or it is seen to be experiential and ethical. Further, scholars on either side of the divide agree that contemporary spiritualities are primarily self-oriented, with one camp arguing that such self-orientation is consumerist and selfish versus the other arguing that such self-orientation challenges modern consumerism and can be an ethical alternative to consumerism. By contrast, I argue that contemporary spiritualities demonstrate the ways in which individualist, self-oriented experimentation with, and even consumption of, other religious ideas and practices is intertwined with attempts to go beyond the atomistic self. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfy015 |