A Sociology of Spirituality

Contents: 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 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 21st 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; Index.