Being Spiritual But Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s)

ISBN-13: 9781138092471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

William B. Parsons

Opis

This edited collection speaks to what national surveys agree is a growing social phenomenon referred to as the "Spiritual but Not Religious Movement" (SBNRM). Each essay of the volume engages the past, present and future(s) of the SBNRM.

Spis treści

Introduction: Framing the Volume, William B. Parsons  Part One: Roots  1 Spiritual but Not Religious: A Brief Introduction, Robert C. Fuller and William B. Parsons  2 The Triumph of the Therapeutic and Being SBNR, Sean Fitzpatrick and William B. Parsons  3 "Is God Dead?" Christian Atheism and the Rise of the SBNR Sensibility, Leigh E. Schmidt  4 Buddhist Fulfillment of a Protestant Dream: Mindfulness as Scientific Spirituality, Matthew S. Hedstrom  5 Plurals, Hybrids and Nomads: Spirituality and Religious Practice at the Intersections, Joy R. Bostic  Part Two: Circumscriptions  6 Minds of Their Own: Psychological Substrates of the SBNR Sensibility, Robert C. Fuller  7 Belief without Borders: Examining Anew the Minds of the Spiritual but Not Religious, Linda Mercadante  8 Consuming Spirituality: SBNR and Neoliberal Logic in Queer Communities, Melissa M. Wilcox  9 Yogi Superman, Master Capitalist: Bikram Choudhury and the Religion of Commercial Spirituality, Andrea R. Jain  10 Global Spirituality Among Scientists, Elaine Howard Ecklund and Di Di  Part Three: Future(s)  11 Rogue Mystics: The Ecology of Cosmic Consciousness, Jason James Kelly  12 Toward a Metamodern Reading of Spiritual but Not Religious Mysticisms, Linda Ceriello  13 Transpersonal Psychology and the Spiritual but Not Religious Movement: Beyond Spiritual Narcissism in a Postsecular Age, Jorge N. Ferrer and William Z. Vickery  14 Being Spiritual but Not Hierarchical, Chad J. Pevateaux  15 "Comparison Gets You Nowhere!" The Comparative Study of Religion and the Spiritual but Not Religious, Jeffrey J. Kripal

O autorze

William B. Parsons is Professor of Religion at Rice University. His publications include The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling (1999), Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain (2001), Teaching Mysticism (2010), Mourning Religion (2008), Freud and Augustine in Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality (2013), and dozens of articles in multiple journals and edited books. He has served as Chair of the Department of Religion and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, Editor (the psychology of religion section) with Religious Studies Review, and has been a Fellow at the Martin Marty Center of the University of Chicago and at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Hebrew University.