A Sociology of SpiritualityKieran Flanagan, Peter C. Jupp Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 M01 1 - 269 pages Part of a series which draws on the latest worldwide scholarship in compelling and coherent collections on critical themes. Ultimately, the books in the series reflect not just on religious life but on how wider society is affected by the enduring religious framing of human relationships, morality and the nature of society itself. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Spirituality Some Disciplinary Perspectives | 23 |
The Spiritual Revolution Another False Dawn for the Sacred | 43 |
The Holistic Milieu and Spirituality Reflections on Voas and Bruce | 63 |
Beyond Secularisation versus Sacralisation Lessons from a Study of the Dutch Case | 81 |
Spirituality on the Margin of the Church Christian Spiritual Centres in The Netherlands | 101 |
Why so Many Women in Holistic Spirituality? A Puzzle Revisited | 115 |
Contentious Headscarves Spirituality and the State in the TwentyFirst Century | 127 |
Georg Simmel Religion and Spirituality | 145 |
Spirituality From a Religious Concept to a Sociological Theory | 161 |
In Search of Spiritual Capital The Spiritual as a Cultural Resource | 181 |
The Embodied Spirituality of the PostBoomer Generations | 201 |
Visual Spirituality An Eye for Religion | 219 |
Conclusion | 251 |
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