Mindful Elite - Mobilizing From the Inside Out

The Mindful Elite delves into the elite foundation of the mindfulness movement, showing how its leaders' choices to spread meditation through elite networks both facilitated the rapid rise of mindful meditation, and undermined meditators' intentions to transform society from the cushion.

List of contents

• Part I: An Introduction to the Mindful Elite


• 1. The Contemplative Elite and Capitalism: A Case of Contradictions, Successes and Shortcomings


• 2. A Brief History of Buddhist-Inspired American Spirituality, 1830s-1970s


• 3. The Contemplatives (1979- )


• Part II: Mobilizing Meditation through Consensus-Based Strategies


• 4. Accessing Institutions


• 5. Making Mindfulness Appealing


• 6. Interventions' Transformation from the Inside Out


• 7. The Elite Circuit


• Part III: Assessing the Contemplatives' Success, 2013-2016


• 8. Collective Authenticity


• 9. In Conclusion


• References


• Appendix: Data Collection and Analysis


• Endnotes

About the author

Jaime Kucinskas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on spirituality, social change, and inequality.

Summary

The Mindful Elite delves into the elite foundation of the mindfulness movement, showing how its leaders' choices to spread meditation through elite networks both facilitated the rapid rise of mindful meditation, and undermined meditators' intentions to transform society from the cushion.

Additional text

The Mindful Elite is an excellent work, a central text for the study of contemporary spirituality.

Product details

• Authors: Jaime Kucinskas, Jaime (Assistant Professor of Sociology Kucinskas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780190881818
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088181-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Buddhism, Social Mobility