Mahatma Gandhi, Neoliberalism, and the Bourgeois Study of Spirituality
In psychological literature, the concept of spirituality is typically defined as something private, internal and experiential that includes meaning-making, sacred values, connectedness, and/or transcendence. Thus, spirituality is distinct from social, economic, and political spheres of human life. M...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2020
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 31, Pages: 43-62 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Sciences culturelles
B Sociologie des religions B Religionspsycholigie B Religionswissenschaften B Sciences sociales B Religion & Gesellschaft B Études de genre |
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| Résumé: | In psychological literature, the concept of spirituality is typically defined as something private, internal and experiential that includes meaning-making, sacred values, connectedness, and/or transcendence. Thus, spirituality is distinct from social, economic, and political spheres of human life. Most scholars who concern themselves with spirituality assume that it is a universal phenomenon that is essentially the same everywhere. But the isolation of spirituality as a sphere of life that is separated from other spheres is not a universal feature of human history. Mahatma Gandhi, who argued that spirituality is associated with political activism and the struggle for social and economic justice, illustrates this point. Spirituality is a modern concept with a specific history and what counts as spirituality and what does not depend on different configurations of power. In this paper, we explore why a category as amorphous and indeterminate as spirituality has maintained such a currency in the literature of the psychology of religion. We argue that the category of spirituality is a sociopolitical management technique for reinforcing political quietism, which is necessary for the maintenance of the neoliberal status quo. |
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| Contient: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443969_004 |