Making sense of the study of spirituality: late modernity on trial
In this article I offer a meta-theoretical mapping of spirituality studies and its many controversies. I begin by distinguishing between two projects that together constitute the field: the study for and the study of spirituality. I argue a good deal of the confusion surrounding ‘spirituality’ is th...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
[2020]
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Dans: |
Religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 50, Numéro: 4, Pages: 590-614 |
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Spiritualité
/ Science des religions
/ Histoire 1960-2020
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RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Spirituality
B Romanticism B Late Modernity B Social Theory B theory and method |
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Résumé: | In this article I offer a meta-theoretical mapping of spirituality studies and its many controversies. I begin by distinguishing between two projects that together constitute the field: the study for and the study of spirituality. I argue a good deal of the confusion surrounding ‘spirituality’ is the result of scholars failing to make this distinction. Next, I outline the few areas of agreement within the study of spirituality in order to illuminate what I consider the issue that defines the field: the merits and shortcomings of late modernity. By late modernity I mean the current era, whose origins can be traced roughly to the 1960s. I then offer a meta-theoretical analysis of the social-cum-political theoretical frameworks commonly used to study spirituality, delineating them according to their assessments of the contemporary epoch. I contend this is a useful and much-needed means of dispelling some of the fuzziness that characterizes the field. |
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ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1758229 |