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  • New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity

    by Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Galen Watts ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    Although new religious movements (NRMs) are characterized as diverse and unique, this Element analyzes the cultural logic underlying this apparent diversity from a sociological approach. Section 1 demonstrates that NRMs are substantially shaped by the Romantic counterculture emerging around the 1960s and its critique of churched religion, modern industries, science, and capitalism. Section 2 shows ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Shape of Spirituality

    The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation

    Edited by Dick Houtman, Galen Watts ...
    Winner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAround 20 percent of Americans fall into the category of “spiritual but not religious.” Yoga has become a ubiquitous pastime for middle-class Westerners. Mindfulness is increasingly incorporated into school curricula, sports programs, and even corporate culture. Hollywood icons and Silicon Valley trendsetters tout the benefits of a “spiritual” life. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Spiritual Turn

    The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity

    by Galen Watts ...
    Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. But what does 'spirituality' actually mean? And what does this recent 'spiritual turn' reveal about the nature of twenty-first century liberal democracies? Secularization theorists argue that spirituality lacks institutional support and a shared tradition, thereby evincing religious decline. Meanwhile, ... Read more

    $90.89 USD

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  • Belief without Borders

    Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious

    by Linda A. Mercadante ...
    Named A Best Spiritual Book of the Year by Spirituality & Practice The last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in "nones": people who do not claim any religious affiliation. These "nones" now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America. They are not to be confused with secularists, however, for many of them identify themselves as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR). The ... Read more

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  • Why Study Religion?

    Understanding Humanity's Pursuit of the Divine

    by Terry Muck ...
    Why Studying Religion Matters in a Pluralistic ContextThis brief primer explains why Christian students should study religion, how they should go about it, and why it is important in our contemporary, pluralistic context. Senior religion scholar Terry Muck introduces the discipline and explains how it can be approached by Christian students. He explores the contemporary significance of studying ... Read more

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  • After World Religions

    Reconstructing Religious Studies

    by Christopher R Cotter, David G. Robertson ...
    Series series Religion in Culture
    The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Society and Social Justice: a Nexus in Review

    by Brij Mohan ...
    The author explores a nexus of varied abstract issues and protean realities that relates to social justice, its complex manifestations and inordinate conundrums. Its counter-factual to think of a world without a social problem. The author, based on his half-a-century of experience, deep insight, and vast knowledge, thinks otherwise. He offers a cross-sectional analysis of his work as a social ... Read more

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  • The Womanist Idea

    by Layli Maparyan ...
    Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality – as distinct ... Read more

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  • Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944)

    Educational Philosophy in Context

    Edited by Jason Goulah, Andrew Gebert ...
    This edited volume focuses on the life and work of Makiguchi Tsunesaburo (1871-1944), a Japanese elementary schoolteacher, principal, educational philosopher, author, activist, and Buddhist war resister who has emerged as an important figure in international education. Makiguchi is the progenitor of value-creating (soka) pedagogy that informs practice in the Soka schools network, which includes ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism

    Reclaiming the Mindful Commons

    by Peter Doran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices. This has far-reaching implications for our psychological, physical and spiritual well-being, and ultimately for our global ecology. In this consumer age, the underlying teachings of Buddhist mindfulness offer more than individual well-being and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Being Spiritual but Not Religious

    Past, Present, Future(s)

    Edited by William B. Parsons ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    In its most general sense, the term "Spiritual but Not Religious" denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and, on the other hand, feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition. This edited collection speaks to what national surveys agree is a growing social phenomenon referred to as the "Spiritual but Not ... Read more

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