Situating Spirituality Context, Practice, and Power

The essays collected in Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power examine not only individual engagements with spirituality, but they show how seemingly personal facets of spirituality, as well as definitions of spirituality itself, are deeply shaped by religious, cultural, and political contexts.

About the author

Brian Steensland is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is the author of The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle Over Guaranteed Income and co-editor of The New Evangelical Social Engagement.

Jaime Kucinskas is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Hamilton College. She is the author of The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out (Oxford, 2019).

Anna Sun is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities.

Summary

The essays collected in Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power examine not only individual engagements with spirituality, but they show how seemingly personal facets of spirituality, as well as definitions of spirituality itself, are deeply shaped by religious, cultural, and political contexts.

Additional text

The volume will be important for scholars interested in the idea that everything can be spiritual.

Product details

• Assisted by: Steensland (Editor), Kucinskas (Editor), Sun (Editor), Brian (Professor and Chair of Sociology Steensland (Editor), Jaime (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology Kucinskas (Editor), Anna (Associate Professor of Religious Studies Sun (Editor), Brian Steensland (Editor), Jaime Kucinskas (Editor), Anna Sun (Editor)
• Authors: Brian (Professor and Chair of Sociolog Steensland
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.01.2022
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780197565018
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756501-8
• Pages: 376
• Subjects: RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Spirituality & religious experience, Alternative belief systems, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Social and cultural anthropology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Spirituality and religious experience