This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it. SARA MACKIANSenior Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing atThe Open University,UK. Formerly Lecturer in Health Geographies at the University of Manchester, UK,her principal interest is in the everyday construction of worlds of experience. This has led to studies on spirituality, ME, parenting and sexuality. Shehas a particular interest in qualitative methodologies. INDICE: List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introducing an Everyday Spirituality - 'Spirituality Lite' - Spirit and Re-enchantment - The Everyday - Self and Security - Spirits in the Social World - Spirits in the Material World -Therapeutic Spiritualities - Concluding the Journey: Where Have we Been and Where are we Going? - Appendix: Data Collection - Endnotes - Bibliography - -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21939-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés