The healthy turn: sacrifice, healing, wellness, and its relation to contemporary spirituality
Abstract
Despite the relevance of physical and moral pain in medieval theologies, nowadays the key values of contemporary spirituality are akin to happiness, health/wellbeing and personal development. We consider that at least three factors are related to this change of paradigm: the change of Christian attitude toward the trance experiences among the laics, the uprising of studies on clinical patients and the hegemony of humanism in Psychology. In order to explore this hypothesis, we will deal with definitions of the contemporary notion of spirituality. Secondly, we will explore the named three key factors in some detail and, finally, we will analyze some recent critics about the understanding of spirituality as wellbeing, exploring the relationship between contemporary spirituality and neoliberalism.Keywords
Spirituality, Health, New Age Spirituality, Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityReferences
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