Spirituality is in the spotlight. While levels of religious belief
and observance are declining in much of the Western world, the
number of people who identify as "spiritual but not religious" is
on the rise. Practices such as yoga, meditation, and pilgrimage are
surging in popularity. "Wellness" regimes offer practitioners a
lexicon of spirituality and an array of spiritual experiences.
Commentators talk of a new spiritual awakening "after religion."
And global mobility is generating hybrid practices that blur the
lines between religion and spirituality. The essays collected in
Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power examine not
only individual engagements with spirituality, but they show how
seemingly personal facets of spirituality, as well as definitions
of spirituality itself, are deeply shaped by religious, cultural,
and political contexts. The volume is explicitly cross-national and
comparative. The contributors are leading scholars of major global
regions: North America, Central America, East Asia, South Asia,
Africa and the African Diaspora, Western Europe, and the Middle
East. They study not only Christian, Jewish, and Islamic societies,
but also non-Abrahamic societies with native as well as
transnational sacred traditions.
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