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Contemporary Spiritualities - Enchanted Worlds of Nature, Wellbeing and Mystery in Italy (Paperback)
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Contemporary Spiritualities - Enchanted Worlds of Nature, Wellbeing and Mystery in Italy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge New Religions
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Contemporary alternative spirituality, as studied by sociologists,
is usually seen as a recent phenomenon dating from the 1960s and
1970s. However, when viewed from a longer-term perspective this
form of religious expression is actually seen to reintroduce
concepts that recur throughout Western cultural history. This book
argues, therefore, that spirituality in the 21st Century actually
shares many of the same characteristics as Classical, Mediaeval,
Renaissance and Modern spiritualities. It is neither entirely new,
nor is it clearly alternative to more established religions. The
book is divided into two parts. The first sets out the context in
which contemporary alternative spirituality has formed, charting
its development as an academic term and a social phenomenon. The
second part looks at how these two elements have developed in
countries that are historically Catholic, focussing on specific
examples in contemporary Italy: spiritualities based on the
sacralisation of nature; those concerned with health and wellbeing;
and those which are fascinated by mystery.Catholic majority
countries are particularly interesting in this instance, as the
Catholic Church has a unique cultural hegemony with which to
compare alternative spiritual practices. It concludes that
spirituality, if framed in a longer historical perspective, is a
way of acting and seeing the world which was built, and continues
to be built upon complex relations with various contradictory
sources of authority, such as religion, magic thinking, secularism,
rationalism, various spheres of lay culture. This is a bold take on
the spirituality milieu and as such will be of great interest to
scholars of Religious Studies working on the sociology of religion,
contemporary spirituality and the rise of the "spiritual but not
religious".
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