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'.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Galen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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.