- Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice (2011, Hardcover) FB2 download ebook
9789400718180 English 9400718187 The current generation of young adults, at least in the Western world, has shown a marked tendency toward a preference for describing themselves as Sspiritual as contrasted to Sreligious. This book seeks to examine the possible meanings and consequences associated with this contrast in terms of the similarities and differences that affect those who use these terms with respect to the everyday practices that they themselves employ or believe should follow from being self-defined as Sreligious or Sspiritual ' or not. The several chapters in this volume take up the religious-spiritual contrast specifically through investigations into practice: In what ways do people who claim to be Sreligious or Sspiritual define these self-images as manifest in their own lives? How on a daily basis does a person who considers himself or herself Sreligious or Sspiritual live out that self-image in specific ways that she or he can describe to others, even if not share with others? Are there ways that being Sspiritual can involve religion or ways that being Sreligious can involve spirituality, and if so, how do these differ from concepts in prior eras (e.g., Ignatian spirituality, Orthodox spirituality, Anglican spirituality, etc.)? We also explore if there are institutions of spiritual practice to which those who term themselves Sspiritual turn, or if the difference implied by these terms may instead be between institutionalized and de-institutionalized expressions of practice, including but not limited to self-spiritualities.
9789400718180 English 9400718187 The current generation of young adults, at least in the Western world, has shown a marked tendency toward a preference for describing themselves as Sspiritual as contrasted to Sreligious. This book seeks to examine the possible meanings and consequences associated with this contrast in terms of the similarities and differences that affect those who use these terms with respect to the everyday practices that they themselves employ or believe should follow from being self-defined as Sreligious or Sspiritual ' or not. The several chapters in this volume take up the religious-spiritual contrast specifically through investigations into practice: In what ways do people who claim to be Sreligious or Sspiritual define these self-images as manifest in their own lives? How on a daily basis does a person who considers himself or herself Sreligious or Sspiritual live out that self-image in specific ways that she or he can describe to others, even if not share with others? Are there ways that being Sspiritual can involve religion or ways that being Sreligious can involve spirituality, and if so, how do these differ from concepts in prior eras (e.g., Ignatian spirituality, Orthodox spirituality, Anglican spirituality, etc.)? We also explore if there are institutions of spiritual practice to which those who term themselves Sspiritual turn, or if the difference implied by these terms may instead be between institutionalized and de-institutionalized expressions of practice, including but not limited to self-spiritualities.