Description |
1 online resource (xx, 223 pages) |
Contents |
Bridging the gap: the split between spirituality and society -- Biography, behavior, and belief: the sources of spirituality -- Acting on faith: social roles in expressing spirituality -- Keeping the faith in action: cultivating spiritual practice -- Experience and emotion: the influence of spiritual feelings -- Degrees of social integration: toward a theory of engaged spirituality -- Lived spirituality and the gamut of social action |
Summary |
While scholars have long recognized the importance that religion and religious organizations have played in social activism, they have typically seen spirituality as a private matter with few practical implications. In Engaged Spirituality, Gregory C. Stanczak challenges this assumption, arguing that spirituality plays an important social role as well. Based on more than one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, the book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-214) and index |
Notes |
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Subject |
Spirituality -- Social aspects -- United States
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Religion and social problems -- United States
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Social change -- Religious aspects.
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Social change -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Religion and social problems
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Social change
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Social change -- Religious aspects
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Spirituality -- Social aspects
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Spiritualität
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Religionssoziologie
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Sozialer Wandel
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Spiritualiteit.
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Sociale aspecten.
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United States
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USA
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Verenigde Staten.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005024944 |
ISBN |
9780813539485 |
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081353948X |
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