The spiritual turn : the religion of the heart and the making of romantic liberal modernity /
North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectual history and political philosophy to examine this 'spiritual turn'.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- I: The spiritual turn. From religion to spirituality
- A brief history of the religion of the heart
- Spirituality today
- II: Romantic liberal modernity. The 1960's and the rise of romantic liberalism
- The making of romanitc liberal modernity
- Mapping the romantic liberal institutional order
- Romantic liberal modernity and its critics
- III: The romantic liberal subject. Moral reform and shifting involvements a a twelve step group
- Prosperity and positivity at a Greedy Institution
- Public performance and political ambivalences at a public speaking club
- Conclusion : seeing ourselves anew
- Appendix : Research methods.