Overview
- A practical investigation of the implications of calling oneself 'spiritual' as opposed to 'religious' on everyday life
- With papers on the ideas and concepts behind the spiritual "turn" as well as practical case studies about its effects on day-to-day life
- Tries to clarify the meaning of "spiritual" as opposed to "religious", by looking for both similarities and differences between these two self-images
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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IDEAS AND CONCEPTS OF THE SPIRITUAL TURN
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CASE STUDIES IN THE NEW SPIRITUALITY
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giuseppe Giordan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Padua. From 2007 he has served as Secretary of the Sociology of Religion Section of the Italian Sociological Association, and from 2009 as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR). With Enzo Pace and Luigi Berzano he also edits the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. He completed all his social science degrees at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome, receiving his doctorate summa cum laude in 2010. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy. His books in English include Identity and Pluralism: The Values of the Post-Modern Time (2004) and the edited volumes Vocation and Social Context (2007), Conversion in the Age of Pluralism (2009) and Youth and Religion (2010), in addition to articles in Implicit Religion, Social Compass, and the Review of Religious Research.
William H. Swatos, Jr. received his doctorate with examination honors in social theory from the University of Kentucky. He has served for over a decade as Executive Officer of both the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Religious Research Association. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, editing the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, and teaches in the sociology faculty at Augustana College (Illinois). He is also Canon Theologian of the Anglican Diocese of Quincy, Illinois. With Kevin Christiano and Peter Kivisto, he is co-author of the text Sociology of Religion, currently in its second edition. In addition he is co-author of a text in Social Problems as well as For Democracy: The Noble Character and Tragic Flaws of the Middle Class (with Peter Kivisto and Ronald Glassman) andIcelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity (with Loftur R. Gissurarson), as well as fourteen edited volumes, including the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. In 2004 he assumed the general editorship of the “Religion and the Social Order” series sponsored by the ASR, with a total of ten volumes completing publication between then and 2011.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice
Editors: Giuseppe Giordan, William H. Swatos, Jr.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1819-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1818-0Published: 14 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8287-6Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1819-7Published: 14 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 193