Einleitung: Soziologie der Spiritualität

In introducing the special volume of the German Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion on the »Sociology of Spirituality«, this paper summarises the various aspects pertaining to contemporary spirituality, such as (1) the determined orientation towards extraordinary experiences that are interp...

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Publié dans:Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Auteur principal: Knoblauch, Hubert 1959- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Allemand
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Publié: Diagonal-Verlag 2012
Dans: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:In introducing the special volume of the German Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion on the »Sociology of Spirituality«, this paper summarises the various aspects pertaining to contemporary spirituality, such as (1) the determined orientation towards extraordinary experiences that are interpreted as transcendent. The multiple sources of these interpretations may be characterised as »alternative religiosity « since they draw on non-hegemonial (eastern, archaic, occult, mystic etc.) religious traditions. (3) Distance to religious dogmas and a tendency to anti-institutionalism is combined with (4) a stress on religious autonomy and an individualistic world-view. Experience-orientation allows for (5) a form of holism that attempts to counter the functional differentiation of society and of one’s life world. Finally there are indications that the notion of spirituality tends to become an alternative to »religion« in ordinary language.
ISSN:2194-508X
Contient:In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/zfr.2005.13.2.123