"A Cult of Cookie Bakers": The Spiritual Qualities of Youth Social Justice Organization Free the Children
This article analyzes the growing youth social justice initiative Free the Children/ME to WE as a kind of "spiritual movement" by demonstrating how the discourses utilized by participants and authorities resemble both the discourse of self-spirituality, as found among actual millennials, a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2019]
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| In: |
Studies in religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 462-482 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Free the Children International
/ Secularism
/ Spirituality
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
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new secular spiritual movement
B youth spiritual development B contemporary spirituality B Ritual B Free the Children |
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| Summary: | This article analyzes the growing youth social justice initiative Free the Children/ME to WE as a kind of "spiritual movement" by demonstrating how the discourses utilized by participants and authorities resemble both the discourse of self-spirituality, as found among actual millennials, and the discourse of youth spirituality found in the developmental sciences literature. Building on previous research in which we characterized this family of organizations as a "new secular spiritual movement," (Mosurinjohn and Funnell-Kononuk, 2017). we situate the phenomenological experience of its distinctive "WE spirituality" in the landscape of contemporary Western spirituality. Following on arguments that the politics of self-spirituality are more social change-oriented than previously acknowledged, we illuminate the logics of a spiritual movement that develops the "me" of the individual self into a part of the "we" of an imagined global community, by making spirituality coextensive with social civic engagement. Cet article s'intéresse à la croissance de l'initiative « Free the Children / ME to We » en tant que « mouvement spirituel » en démontrant comment le discours mis de l'avant par ses membres et ses dirigeants rassemble deux discours, soit ceux des jeunes milléniaux (l'auto-spiritualité) et des littératures en sciences du développement. En nous appuyant sur des recherches précédentes dans lesquelles nous avons considéré cette constellation d'organisations comme un « nouveau mouvement séculier », nous replaçons l'expérience phénoménologique distincte de ce mouvement WE (NOUS) dans le paysage spirituel contemporain. En nous appuyant sur une littérature qui postule que les politiques des spiritualités autonomes sont d'avantage progressiste qu'anticipé auparavant, nous mettons en lumière les logiques d'un mouvement global qui insiste sur le développement d'un « moi » lié à une communauté globale, associant ainsi la spiritualité et l'engagement civique. |
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| ISSN: | 2042-0587 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0008429819830959 |