"Spirituality" as Privatized Experience-Oriented Religion: Empirical and Conceptual Perspectives
Recent empirical studies demonstrate that a growing number of people contrast "spirituality" and "religion," self-identifying as "spiritual, but not religious" or as "more spiritual than religious." This shift in everyday semantic preference, from "religi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2011]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 433-453 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion & Sociology
B Spirituality B Experience (Religion) B Semantics B Religion B Reflection (Philosophy) |
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| Summary: | Recent empirical studies demonstrate that a growing number of people contrast "spirituality" and "religion," self-identifying as "spiritual, but not religious" or as "more spiritual than religious." This shift in everyday semantic preference, from "religion" to "spirituality, " has also affected the terminology ofthe scientific study of religion, producing some uncertainty and ambivalence regarding the conceptualization of spirituality. This is critically discussed To inspire reflection, the article refers to some classics in philosophy, psychology and sociology of religion. The aim is twofold: first, to take the self-description "spiritual" very seriously, and inspire more thoroughgoing and sophisticated research; second, to call into question the necessity of conceptualizing 'spirituality' and to suggest that the concept of 'religion' is sufficient, because "spirituality" can be understood asprivatized, experience-oriented religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.v14i4.433 |