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A sociology of spirituality / edited by Kieran Flanagan, Peter C. Jupp. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. - xiv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series in association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group . - Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective. Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series in association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kieran Flanagan -- Spirituality : some disciplinary perspectives / Peter R. Holmes -- The spiritual revolution : another false dawn for the sacred / David Voas and Steve Bruce -- The holistic milieu and spirituality : reflections on on Voas and Bruce / Paul Heelas -- Beyond secularisation versus sacralisation : lessons from a study of the Dutch case / André Droogers -- Spirituality on the margin of the church : Christian spiritual centres in the Netherlands / Peter Versteeg -- Why so many women in holistic spirituality? : a puzzle revisited / Linda Woodhead -- Contentious headscarves : spirituality and the state in the twenty-first century / Paul Chambers -- Georg Simmel : religion and spirituality / Ivan Varga -- Spirituality : from a religious concept to a sociological theory / Giuseppe Giordan -- In search of spiritual capital : the spiritual as a cultural resource / Mathew Guest -- The embodied spirituality of the post-boomer generations / Richard W. Flory and Donald E. Miller -- Visual spirituality : an eye for religion / Kieran Flanagan -- Conclusion / Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp.

ISBN: 0754654583 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780754654582 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006022471

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA706572 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013650696 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and sociology.
Spirituality.

LC Class. No.: BL60 / .S62 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 306.6