We live in a media age where technologies become the sites and sources of our practices and beliefs, including those deeper values that guide decisions about how we should live.
Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age explores how and why media become the site and source of spiritual expressions that address the mundane or everydayness of our lives. Including international case studies and essays from leading scholars such as Stewart Hoover and Graham Harvey, the book examines the ways and the places in which people have employed media and information technologies to weave spiritual meaning throughout the demands and pastimes of their lives. Topics range from food and sex to spiritual tourism.
In doing so, the volume takes up a call from Paul Heelas' seminal work, Spiritualities of Life, to provide more examples, more richness and more depth to the variety of spiritual practices that exist in late modernity. Providing critical, scholarly explorations of the complexities and contradictions of late-modern spiritual practices, Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age is a must-read for anyone working in the intersection of media, religion or spirituality, and culture.
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Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- 1 Introduction: The Webs We Spin—Relational, Mediated, Spiritual
- 2 Mediated Babywearing as Aesthetic Orthodoxy
- 3 Spirituality at Work: Servant Leadership in the Western Workplace
- 4 “Helping Glastonbury to Come into Its Own”: Practical Spirituality, Materiality, and Community Cohesion in Glastonbury
- 5 Hula Hoop Spiritualities: Social Media, Embodied Experience, and Communities of Practice
- 6 “Another Way”: Modernist Artists, Media, and the Desire for Spiritual Community
- 7 “Dancing Our Prayers”: Material Culture and Practical Spiritualities of the Jam Band Scene
- 8 The Spirit of Place: Identity and Media in Relation to Cornwall
- 9 Spiritual Narratives and The Icarus Project: Disidentification and Rhetoric of Liberation
- 10 Strategic Confession: Pragmatic Religion and Spirituality in the PostSecret Community
- 11 A Constructed Category: Baby Boomers Navigating Aging through Spirituality and the Media
- 12 Food, Sex, and Spirituality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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