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The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is individualistic, privatized, and apolitical-and to make the definitive case for its social and political significance.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spirituality-Privatized Pseudo-Religion?, by Galen Watts and Dick Houtman
1. How Spirituality Grew up and out of Christianity, by Linda Woodhead
2. The Cultic Milieu and the Spiritual Turn: The Need for Theoretical Revision, by Colin Campbell
3. Holistic Healing and the Reestablishment of Religion in the United States, by Candy Gunther Brown
4. Spiritualizing Therapy: How Psychologists Use Spirituality to Counter the Hyperindividualistic Spirit of the Therapeutic Framework, by Michal Pagis and Orly Tal
5. The Spiritual Impulse in Silicon Valley: A Content and Discourse Analysis of
Wired Magazine, 2001-2020, by Paul K. McClure and Christopher M. Pieper
6. Lagged Identities and the Underestimated Civic Significance of Spirituality, by Evan Stewart, Tim Dacey, and Jaime Kucinskas
7. When the Spiritual Is Political: Self-Realization and the Quest for Social Justice, by Galen Watts
8. A Startling Alliance? Spirituality, Populism, and Antivaccination Protest, by Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers
9. Conspirituality: An (Un)happy Marriage of Conspiracy Theories and Spirituality?, byJaron Harambam
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
Dick Houtman is professor of sociology of culture and religion at the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven. He is the author or editor of many books, most recently
Science Under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (2021).
Galen Watts is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (2022).
Summary
The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is individualistic, privatized, and apolitical—and to make the definitive case for its social and political significance.
