'It's a Game Everyone's Already Playing' - The Creating-Our-Reality Motif Between Secularization and Spiritualization in Contemporary Western Popular Spirituality

The Creating-Our-Reality motif is one of the most central in contemporary Western popular spiritual discourse. The article presents and demonstrates three different versions of it - magical, secularized and metaphysical. Nevertheless, despite the clear differentiation between the spiritualization (o...

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Main Author: Shapiro, Marianna Ruah-Midbar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: CEEOL [2018]
In: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2018, Volume: 17, Issue: 51, Pages: 115-133
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Western world / Secularization / Folk religion / Spirituality / Syncretism
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B popular religion
B secularization processes
B CREATION MYTH
B New Age Spirituality
B modern magic
B rationalization and disenchantment
B Science and religion
B contemporary alternative spiritualities
B spiritualization and re-enchantment
B Cosmology
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