Critical Spirituality: Spirituality as Critical Practice in the Global Modern Age

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-429-3453-5
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Studies in Spirituality Supple

A central issue in the study of the correlation between modernity, the

turn to the religious subject and the history of mysticism, concerns the

critical – some would argue ‘subversive’ – character and practice of

mysticism and spirituality. Is this critical practice merely the

resistance effect of the modern pastoral investment in the subject? Or

is there something distinctive in mysticism and spirituality that draws

it strength from various sources – knowledge, experience, desire or

perhaps even one’s body – and operates from a specific position or

‘locus’? This volume explores these questions with the aim of developing

a theory of critical spirituality, that is to say, of its historical

appearances and its contemporary forms and characteristics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westerink, H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik