Who are the Americans who identify as “spiritual but not religious”? What unifying characteristics, qualities, and beliefs might they share?…
Who are the “spiritual but not religious”?
The politics of spirituality
A critical discussion of recent studies on America’s growing “no religion” population and the manifestations of spirituality and spiritual movements in political life as they take shape around various contemporary issues, including ecology, health and the body, race, and sexuality.
Parodic politics
Perhaps the upswing in religious individualism in this postmodern, postsecular period doesn’t herald the breakdown of community after all—nor does…
I hope you like circles
Perceptions of the environment, however intensively managed that environment may in fact be, turn into experiences of nature, self, and…
The spiritual politics of healing
Debates regarding health care have struck at the core of social and political imaginaries of what it means for both…
What does spirituality mean in America today?
But why, first of all, is this subject a significant one? And why does it appear especially pertinent at precisely…