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Religion as Spirituality: Native Religions in Prison
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Michael D. McNally
Published: 14 April 2020
...This chapter considers the relative success of court decisions accommodating certain individual Native American inmates in their religious exercise in prisons, especially the sweat lodge. These cases reveal a pattern of what officials refer to as “Native American Spirituality.” In the prison cases...
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Published: 28 October 2012
... seeks an interpretation of this condition that is neither as deity-affirming nor reductively as (at best) merely metaphorical. It then proceeds to give some personal examples of what one might call “spiritual” experiences, discussing such accounts as an encounter with the biblical Gospels, the aftermath...
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Conclusion
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Peter van der Veer
Published: 27 October 2013
...This concluding chapter explains the significance of comparing the social location of religion, spirituality, magic, and secularity in India and China. Such a comparison shows the differential impact of Western imperialism on India and China. Of course Indian and Chinese societies have deep...
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Belief
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Mark Chaves
Published: 28 August 2011
... profound. The chapter also looks at the recent growth in diffuse spirituality, including the rising number of people—especially young people—who say that they are spiritual but not religious. belief Bible generational differences education religious diversity Jews religious “nones ” spirituality...
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Conclusion
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Mark Chaves
Published: 28 August 2011
... spirituality, but this diffuse spirituality should not be mistaken for an increase in traditional religiosity. As such, if there is a trend, it is toward less religion. congregations megachurches religious right polarization religious diversity religious leaders immigration attendance religious trends...
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Fellowship
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Ann Taves
Published: 08 November 2016
...This chapter traces the growing distinction between Bill Wilson's personal spirituality and the generic spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) through a focus on the emergence of the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions. As a spiritual path, AA centers on the Twelve Steps as worked...
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The Hippies
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Paul E. Willis
Published: 24 August 2014
... for concern, for the hippies it was a source of richness and the base for expanded awareness. hippies participant observation spirituality protestant ethic Zappa Frank pop music ‘acid rock’ Beatles Berry Chuck Country Joe and the Fish Cream Doors Grateful Dead Holly Buddy Jefferson Airplane...
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Quantum Understanding
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Alireza Doostdar
Published: 20 March 2018
...This chapter narrates a woman's spiritual journey that set the stage for her embrace of Cosmic Mysticism. The woman, Arezu Khanum, experienced two dramatic visions that had been crucial in forming her mystical sensibility, including her orientation toward Cosmic Mysticism. The first vision, of two...
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Authority in Experience
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Alireza Doostdar
Published: 20 March 2018
...This chapter examines the place of personal experience in contemporary Iranian spirituality, What is known as “experience” is equivalent to the Persian word tajrobeh (Arabic tajriba ). The sense of tajriba is linked as scientific experiment...
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Whips for the Wayfarers
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Alireza Doostdar
Published: 20 March 2018
...This chapter examines how hagiographies of God's friends are intertwined with processes for instrumentalizing the metaphysical, not only as technologies of pious self-discipline but also as state tools of cultural engineering and as means for individuals to deal with the radical spiritual...
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Hagiographies Unbound
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Alireza Doostdar
Published: 20 March 2018
...This chapter examines how the hagiographies of friends of God enable manifold readings that enable different forms of attachment to Islamic discourses of ethical self-care and spiritual wayfaring. On the one hand, these readings fully inhabit a mystically inclined Shiʻi tradition featuring...
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Published: 26 November 2019
... manifestations that have become increasingly prominent since the 1980s, the fabric of Christian doctrine and spirituality has been so fundamentally redesigned in the interests of the pursuit of individual material prosperity that the question becomes whether Christianity has converted indigenous religionists...
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Religion as Spirituality: Sacred Lands
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Michael D. McNally
Published: 14 April 2020
...This chapter examines the failure in the courts of Native appeals to religious freedom protections for sacred lands, and it extends the previous chapter's analysis of the reception of Native claims to religion as religion. Where a religious claim conforms to the subjective, interior spirituality...
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Coevolution
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Avi Max Spiegel
Published: 26 May 2015
... two main Islamist movements—the Justice and Spirituality Organization, or Al Adl wal Ihsan (Al Adl) and the Party of Justice and Development (PJD)—it suggests that their evolutions can only be fully appreciated if they are relayed in unison. These movements mirror one another depending...
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Metaphysics of Vision
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Alireza Doostdar
Published: 20 March 2018
...This chapter examines how the mystic, as represented in his hagiographies, has managed to purify his conscience through arduous spiritual exercise, how this unpolluted conscience becomes an imaginative resource for ordinary believers to employ as instrument and technique in clarifying their own...
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The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
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Alireza Doostdar
Published online: 20 September 2018
Published in print: 20 March 2018
... into frequently neglected aspects of Iranian spirituality, politics, and intellectual inquiry, the book challenges widely held assumptions about Islam, rationality, and the relationship between science and religion....
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Published: 17 September 2019
...This afterword demonstrates how the return of religion to public life has had an impact on science. Faith itself has become an object of physiological study, with researchers deploying brain scans to identify a “God spot,” the supposed seat of a wired-in human spirituality. The afterword...
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Published: 09 June 2020
... Copway, whose account of his 1850 visit to Britain, en route to the third World Peace Conference, provides an extended example of native engagement with, and enthusiasm for, modernity. Many of the white missionaries believed they were importing spiritual and material benefits that would allow...
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Spirituality in Modern Society
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Peter van der Veer
Published: 27 October 2013
...This chapter illustrates how in the nineteenth century the category of spirituality received a global modern meaning. It became part of an alternative modernity in different places around the globe. In India and China indigenous forms of spirituality were invoked as alternatives to Western...
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The Spiritual Body
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Peter van der Veer
Published: 27 October 2013
... forms of spirituality has escaped analytical scrutiny. One reason for this is the false assumption that the spiritual is not political. Eastern spirituality is often perceived to transcend secular reality as well as the problems of institutionalized religion. The chapter points to a few Indian...