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You Can't Put God in a Box - Thoughtful Spirituality in a Rational Age (Hardcover)
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You Can't Put God in a Box - Thoughtful Spirituality in a Rational Age (Hardcover)
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Kelly Besecke offers an examination of reflexive spirituality, a
spirituality that draws equally on religions traditions and
traditions of reason in the pursuit of transcendent meaning. People
who practice reflexive spirituality prefer metaphor to literalism,
spiritual experience to doctrinal belief, religious pluralism to
religious exclusivism or inclusivism, and ongoing inquiry to
''final answers.'' Reflexive spirituality is aligned with liberal
theologies in a variety of religious traditions and among the
spiritual-but-not-religious. You Can't Put God in a Box draws on
original qualitative data to describe how people practiced
reflexive spirituality in an urban United Methodist church, an
interfaith adult education center, and a variety of secular
settings. The theoretical argument focuses on two kinds of
rationality that are both part of the Enlightenment legacy.
Technological rationality focuses our attention on finding the most
efficient means to a particular end. Reflexive spiritualists reject
forms of religiosity and secularity that rely on the biases of
technological rationality-they see these as just so many versions
of ''fundamentalism'' that are standing in the way of compelling
spiritual meaning. Intellectual rationality, on the other hand,
offers tools for analysis, interpretation, and synthesis of
religious ideas. Reflexive spiritualists embrace intellectual
rationality as a way of making religious traditions more meaningful
for modern ears. Besecke provides a window into the progressive
theological thinking of educated spiritual seekers and religious
liberals. Grounded in participant observation, her book uses
concrete examples of reflexive spirituality in practice to speak to
the classical sociological problem of modern meaninglessness.
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