From the Trees to the Wood: Alternative Spirituality as an Emergent 'Official Religion'?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11280%2F21%3A10456857" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11280/21:10456857 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=UDkhiQleT5" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=UDkhiQleT5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-20211525" target="_blank" >10.1163/18748929-20211525</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From the Trees to the Wood: Alternative Spirituality as an Emergent 'Official Religion'?
Original language description
In this introductory study, we place the articles collected in this special issue on 'spirituality' in a more general context. In so doing, we contest the idea that alternative spirituality is best studied within the conceptual framework of the 'vernacular.' We argue that such an approach tends to unintentionally overstate the empirical particularities and overlook the broader aspects of the subject in question, which results in unreflexively accepting alternative spirituality's own claim that it is 'doctrine-free' and 'non-institutional' by nature. Contrary to this claim, we show that alternative spirituality is (a) pregnant with a distinguishable doctrine despite being glocal and inventive; (b) profoundly social and effectively socialized; (c) about to be visibly socially organized and institutionalized; and (d) a way of addressing and redressing the key existential issues of human life, just as any other religion.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-09685S" target="_blank" >GA17-09685S: The image of indigenous cultures in the context of contemporary Western alternative spirituality, society, and science</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Religion in Europe
ISSN
1874-8910
e-ISSN
1874-8929
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3-4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
187-213
UT code for WoS article
000661087800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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