A NEW PARADIGM OF SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION
Burgess Marycatherine
Oprawa:
TWARDA
Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
9780826499653
Opis produktu
Will enhance readers reflections on and understandings of the impacts of cultural and social change on the ways many in the West perceive spirituality institutional religion and their relations.The title is part of the groundbreaking new series Continuum Advances in Religious Studies.Written with clarity and rigorous analysis this book will push forward our thinking about the hotly debated relationship between spirituality and religion.Weaving theory and practice together MaryCatherine Burgess explores the historically difficult relationship between religion and spirituality by applying crosscultural elements of shamanism and DaniĘle HervieuLęgers Model of śReligion as a Chain of Memory to her study of contemporary shamanic practice in Scotland. Within the context of cultural and religious change she utilises HervieuLęgers analytical model to uncover a shamanic worldview that carries in its memory and practice a lineage of spirituality not belief. This distinction sheds critical light on a new paradigm of spirituality and religion that reflects how many in Western societies currently respond to institutional religion.Through an examination of contemporary shamanic practice in Scotland MaryCatherine Burgess sheds light on a new paradigm of spirituality and religion.1. Religion Spirituality and Contemporary Shamanic Practice inWymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 494 gr
Dodaj recenzję
Zaloguj sie, aby móc dodać swoją recenzję.