Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges
The document explores the complexities of spirituality in modern society, discussing its diverse definitions, its relation to religion, and its importance for personal, social, and political transformation.
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The more resources, the more you were engaged; and the more you were engaged, the more viable this spirituality was within the nova effect. It could provide meaning, shape your passages through time, and help your ordinary life be one of individually experienced flourishing. As Mark Chaves has shown, churches in America are polarized in the sense o
... See moreThe capacious term 'spirituality' lacks clarity because it is not so much a unitary concept as a signpost for a range of touchstones; our search for meaning, our sense of the sacred, the value of compassion, the experience of transcendence, the hunger for transformation.
The buffered self, which is dependent on both the disenchantment of Secular 3 and the romanticism of the age of authenticity, is by definition closed (buffered) from transcendent events or foreign ontological encounters. The age of authenticity then is tempted to spin closed so that the self remains always