'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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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CEEOL
[2018]
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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
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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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