Spirituality in The Modern World : Within Religious Tradition and Beyond, (4 Volume Set)

It would not be an exaggeration to say that during the last century, most especially during and since the 1960s, the language of spirituality has become one of the most significant ways in which the sacred has come to be understood and judged in the West, and, increasingly, elsewhere. Whether it is true that ‘spirituality’ has eclipsed ‘religion’ in Western settings remains debatable. What is incontestable is that the language of spirituality, together with practices (most noticeably spiritual, complementary, and alternative medicine), has become a major feature of the sacred dimensions of contemporary modernity. Equally incontestably, spirituality is a growing force in all those developing countries where its presence is increasingly felt among the cosmopolitan elite, and where spiritual forms of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine are thriving.

This new four-volume Major Work collection from Routledge provides a coherent compilation of landmark texts which cannot be ignored by those intent on making sense of what is happening to the sacred as spirituality - more exactly what is taken to be spirituality - develops as an increasingly important lingua franca, series of practices, and as a humanistic ethicality.

Spirituality in The Modern World
Within Religious Tradition and Beyond

Volume I : Overview : Spirituality, The Perennial and The Zoned

Chapter 1 : Spirituality
Chapter 1.1 : Paul Heelas 2011 : ‘On Making Some Sense of Spirituality’
Chapter 2 : Paul Heelas 2011 : ‘On Some Major Issues’
Chapter 3 : Paul Heelas 2011 : ‘On The Volumes’

Part 1 : Perennial spirituality within and beyond religious : tradition -
Chapter 4 : The Perennial Philosophy. An Interpretation of The Great Mystics, East and West
Chapter 5 : Enthusiasm, Gnosticism, American Orphism’ and ‘The New Age : California Orphism’, in The American Religion : The Emergence of The Post-Christian Nation
Chapter 6 : Natural Supernaturalism. Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
Chapter 7 : Art, Architecture, Religion. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press
Chapter 8 : On The Salvation of The Soul’ (orig. 1903), in Georg Simmel Essays on Religion

Part 2 : On differentiating spirituality within and beyond religious tradition
Chapter 9 : Spirituality : A Contemporary Alternative’, in Psychology of Religion. Classic and Contemporary
Chapter 10 : Conceptualizing Religion and Spirituality : Points of Commonality, Points of Departure
Chapter 11 : Religion Today’, in A Secular Age
Chapter 12 : Truth Church’, in The Resilience of Conservative Religion. The Case of Popular, Conservative Protestant Congregations
Chapter 13 : Unchurched Spirituality. An Introduction
Chapter 14 : Exploring Spirituality and Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden, and Japan’, Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 15 : The Subtle Energies of Spirit : Explorations in Metaphysical and New Age Spirituality’, Journal of The American Academy of Religion

Part 3 : Illustrating diversity : some cultural and practical zones
Chapter 16 : Introduction : Spirituality and The Secular Quest, Spirituality and The Secular Quest
Chapter 17 : Vegetarianism as an Example of Dispersed Religiosity’, Implicit Religion
Chapter 18 : Automatic Theologies. Surrealism and The Politics of Equality, Political Theologies, Religion in a Post-Secular World
Chapter 19 : Terminal Faith’, in Paul Heelas, with The assistance of David Martin and Paul Morris (eds) Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity
Chapter 20 : "Where The Zeroes Meet The Ones". Exploring The Affinity between Magic and Computer Technology, Religions of Modernity

Part 4 : On counting zones
Chapter 21 : The Spirituality of Adults in Britain – Recent Research’, Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy
Chapter 22 : Research Note : RAMP Findings and Making Sense of The "God Within Each Person, RaTher than Out There"’, Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 23 : The Spiritual Turn and The Decline of Tradition. The Spread of Post-Christian Spirituality in 14 Western Countries, 1981-2000
Chapter 24i : New Age, Religiosity, and Traditionalism : A Cross-Cultural Comparison’, Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 24ii : Christian Religiosity and New Age Spirituality : A Cross-Cultural Comparison’, Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 24iii : New Age is Not Inimical to Religion and Traditionalism’, Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion

Part 5 : Changing zones
Chapter 25 : Art, Architecture, Religion. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press
Chapter 26 : From "Everything Has a Meaning" to "I want to Believe in Something" : Religious Change Between Two Generations of Women in Norway’, Social Compass
Chapter 27 : New Ways of Believing or Belonging : Is Religion Giving Way to Spirituality?’, The British Journal of Sociology

Volume II : Spirituality From Within Religious Tradition

Chapter 28 : Toward Defining Spirituality’, Studies in Religion
Chapter 29 : Pontifical Council for Culture and Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue 2003 : extract from ‘Jesus Christ The Bearer of The Water of Life. A Christian Reflection on The "New Age"’, Manchester : CTS Mancheste
Chapter 30 : Spirituality and Catholicism : The Italian Experience’, Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 31 : Transformations of Dutch Protestantism : The Turn to Experiential Belief
Chapter 32 : The New Age Movement and The Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival : Distinct Yet Parallel Phases of a Fourth Great Awakening?, Perspectives on The New Age
Chapter 33 : The Self Examined’, in Evangelicalism. The Coming Generation
Chapter 34 : Sufi Thought and its Reconstruction, Islamic Thought in The Twentieth Century

Part 6 : Contexts of participant-affirmed value

Part A : World Peace
Chapter 35 : In Pursuit of World Peace : Modernism, Sacralism and Cosmopiety’, Global Change, Peace and Security

Part B : Environmental
Chapter 36 : Buddhist Environmental Ethics and Detraditionalization : The Case of EcoBuddhism’, Religion
Chapter 37 : Wilderness, Religion and Ecological Restoration in The Scottish Highlands’, EcoTheology
Chapter 38 : God is Underfoot : Pneumatology after Derrida, The Religious

Part C : Growing up
Chapter 39 : Andrew Wright’s Critical Realism, Clive Erricker’s Radical Postmodernism and Teenage Perceptions of Spirituality, Postmodern Spirituality
Chapter 40 : The Embodied Spirituality of The Post-Boomer Generations, A Sociology of Spirituality

Part D : Feminism and gender
Chapter 41 : Spiritualizing The Sacred : A Critique of Feminist Theology’, Modern Theology
Chapter 42 : Truth in Flux : Goddess Feminism as a Late Modern Religion
Chapter 43 : The OTher Woman : Irreducible Alterity in Feminist Thealogies

Part E : Art
Chapter 44 : From Religion to Spirituality’, in The Art of The Sacred

Part F : Business
Chapter 45 : The Influence of Religion-based Workplace Spirituality on Business Leaders’ Decision-making : An Inter-faith Study’, Journal of Management & Organization

Part G : Challenges to Religious Tradition from Beyond
Chapter 46 : The Web of Deceit : Challenges to Hindu and Muslim "Orthodoxies" by "Bauls" of Bengal’

Volume III : Autonomous- Spiritualities beyond Religious Tradition

Part 7 : Illustrating The most distinctively autonomous : ‘New Age’
Chapter 47 : Beyond The Spiritual Supermarket. The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality’, Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 48 : "We are all Gods". New Age in The NeTherlands 1960-2000, The Dutch and Their Gods
Chapter 49 : Quantitative Studies of New Age : A Summary and Discussion, Handbook of New Age,

Part 8 : Illustrating The somewhat less autonomous
Chapter 50 : The New Age of Kabbalah. Contemporary Kabbalah, The New Age and Postmodern Spirituality’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Chapter 51 : God by all Means… Eclectic Faith and Sufi Resurgence among The Moroccan Bourgeoisie, Sufism and The ‘Modern’ in Islam
Chapter 52 : The Beshara Perspective and The Teaching of Ibn ‘Arabi’, in Beshara and Ibn ‘Arabi. A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in The Modern World
Chapter 53 : New Spirituality in Contemporary Societies : A Comparative View on Japanese "Spiritual World", Zen, Reiki, Karate. Hamburg : Lit Verlag Munster

Part 9 : Internal’ dynamics, including ethicality
Chapter 54 : Antinomian Rules. The Ethical Outlook of American Zen Students’, in Getting Saved from The Sixties
Chapter 55 : Body, Mind and Spirit? Towards an Analysis of The Practice of Yoga’, Body & Society
Chapter 56 : Liberation or Limitation? Understanding Iyengar Yoga as a Practice of The Self’, Body & Society
Chapter 57 : Eastern Teachings’ -, Between East and West. From Singularity to Community

Part 10 : Contexts of perceived value

Part A : Healing
Chapter 58 : Revisiting The "Easternisation" Thesis : The Spiritualisation of Ayurveda in Britain
Chapter 59 : Secularizing Religious Practices : 2010 : A Study of Subjectivity and Existential Transformation in Naikan Therapy’, Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 60 : Holism, Healing and The New Age, Beyond New Age. Exploring Alternative Spirituality

Part B : The workplace
Chapter 61 : Spirituality in The Workplace : New Empirical Directions in The Study of The Sacred’, Sociology of Religion
Chapter 62 : New Age and Business, Handbook of New Age
Chapter 63 : God's Company : New Age Ethics and The Bank of Credit and Commerce International

Part C : Gender
Chapter 64 : The New Age Movement and Feminist Spirituality : Overlapping Conversations at The End of The Century, Perspectives on The New Age
Chapter 65 : Towards Sacred Androgyny’, in The Channeling Zone

Part D : Art
Chapter 66 : Spiritualities of Life : The Neglected Role of The Artistic Paradigm’, Journal of Contemporary Religion

Volume IV : Explorations of Explanations

Part 11 : The matter of efficacy
Chapter 67 : From Pre- to Postmodernity in Latin America : The Case of Pentacostalism, Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity
Chapter 68 : The Social Impact of Nigeria’s New Religious Movements, New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change
Chapter 69 : The Failure of The New Age’, in God is Dead. Secularization in The West
Chapter 70 : The Problem of Capitalism in The Scholarship on Contemporary Spirituality, Postmodern Spirituality
Chapter 71 : Making The World Work : Ideas of Social Responsibility in The Human Potential Movement, Of Gods and Men. New Religious Movements in The West
Chapter 72 : The Social Ethic of Religiously Unaffiliated Spirituality’, Religion Compass
Chapter 73 : The Rising Culture and Worldview of Contemporary Spirituality : A Sociological Study of Potentials and Pitfalls for Sustainable Development’, Ecological Economics
Chapter 74 : Spirituality and Environmental Consciousness in The NeTherlands. A Comparison of Holistic Spirituality and Christian Dualism
Chapter 75 : Sami Indigenous Spirituality : Religion and Nation-building in Norwegian Sapmi
Chapter 76 : The Psychology of The New Age, Handbook of New Age
Chapter 77 : Empowerment and Using The Body in Modern Postural Yoga, Yoga in The Modern World.
Chapter 78 : The Uses and Abuses of Zen in The Twentieth Century
Chapter 79 : Neo-Confucian Body Techniques : Women’s Bodies in Korea’s Consumer Society’, Body & Society

Part 12 : The matter of change
Chapter 80 : The Conflict of Modern Culture and ‘The Problem of Religion Today
Chapter 81 : A Secular Age, London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Chapter 82 : Why do Churches become Empty, while New Age Grows? Secularization and Religious Change in The NeTherlands’, Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 83 : Explaining Growth’, in ‘Challenging Secularization Theory : The Growth of "New Age" Spiritualities of Life’, The Hedgehog Review, ‘After Secularization
Chapter 84 : Why Patients Use Alternative Medicine. Results of a National Study’, Journal of The American Medical Association
Chapter 85 : Spirit Possession and Deprivation Cults
Chapter 86 : Gendering in The Holistic Milieu : A Critical Realist Analysis of Homeopathic Work’, Gender, Work and Organization
Chapter 87 : Modernity and its Imbalances : Constructing Modern Selfhood in The Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
Chapter 88 : Japan’s New Age and Neo-New Religions : Sociological Interpretations, Perspectives on The New Age
Chapter 89 : The Spiritual World : Aspects of New Age in Japan, Handbook of New Age