Dick Houtman is professor of sociology of culture and religion at the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven. He is the author or editor of many books, most recently Science Under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (2021).Galen Watts is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (2022).

This collection of essays pushes back against the dominant trend in the sociology of religion to dismiss spirituality as merely private and individual, lacking public and political significance. ...From reframing the study of spirituality to discussing the integration of spirituality with business, health, technology, and politics, this is essential reading in the sociology of religion and sociology more generally.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spirituality—Privatized Pseudo-Religion?, by Galen Watts and Dick Houtman1. How Spirituality Grew up and out of Christianity, by Linda Woodhead2. The Cultic Milieu and the Spiritual Turn: The Need for Theoretical Revision, by Colin Campbell3. Holistic Healing and the Reestablishment of Religion in the United States, by Candy Gunther Brown4. Spiritualizing Therapy: How Psychologists Use Spirituality to Counter the Hyperindividualistic Spirit of the Therapeutic Framework, by Michal Pagis and Orly Tal5. The Spiritual Impulse in Silicon Valley: A Content and Discourse Analysis of Wired Magazine, 2001–2020, by Paul K. McClure and Christopher M. Pieper6. Lagged Identities and the Underestimated Civic Significance of Spirituality, by Evan Stewart, Tim Dacey, and Jaime Kucinskas7. When the Spiritual Is Political: Self-Realization and the Quest for Social Justice, by Galen Watts8. A Startling Alliance? Spirituality, Populism, and Antivaccination Protest, by Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers9. Conspirituality: An (Un)happy Marriage of Conspiracy Theories and Spirituality?, byJaron HarambamBibliographyContributorsIndex

Dick Houtman is professor of sociology of culture and religion at the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven. He is the author or editor of many books, most recently Science Under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (2021).Galen Watts is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (2022).

This collection of essays pushes back against the dominant trend in the sociology of religion to dismiss spirituality as merely private and individual, lacking public and political significance. ...From reframing the study of spirituality to discussing the integration of spirituality with business, health, technology, and politics, this is essential reading in the sociology of religion and sociology more generally.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spirituality—Privatized Pseudo-Religion?, by Galen Watts and Dick Houtman1. How Spirituality Grew up and out of Christianity, by Linda Woodhead2. The Cultic Milieu and the Spiritual Turn: The Need for Theoretical Revision, by Colin Campbell3. Holistic Healing and the Reestablishment of Religion in the United States, by Candy Gunther Brown4. Spiritualizing Therapy: How Psychologists Use Spirituality to Counter the Hyperindividualistic Spirit of the Therapeutic Framework, by Michal Pagis and Orly Tal5. The Spiritual Impulse in Silicon Valley: A Content and Discourse Analysis of Wired Magazine, 2001–2020, by Paul K. McClure and Christopher M. Pieper6. Lagged Identities and the Underestimated Civic Significance of Spirituality, by Evan Stewart, Tim Dacey, and Jaime Kucinskas7. When the Spiritual Is Political: Self-Realization and the Quest for Social Justice, by Galen Watts8. A Startling Alliance? Spirituality, Populism, and Antivaccination Protest, by Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers9. Conspirituality: An (Un)happy Marriage of Conspiracy Theories and Spirituality?, byJaron HarambamBibliographyContributorsIndex

Dick Houtman is professor of sociology of culture and religion at the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven. He is the author or editor of many books, most recently Science Under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (2021).Galen Watts is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (2022).

This collection of essays pushes back against the dominant trend in the sociology of religion to dismiss spirituality as merely private and individual, lacking public and political significance. ...From reframing the study of spirituality to discussing the integration of spirituality with business, health, technology, and politics, this is essential reading in the sociology of religion and sociology more generally.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spirituality—Privatized Pseudo-Religion?, by Galen Watts and Dick Houtman1. How Spirituality Grew up and out of Christianity, by Linda Woodhead2. The Cultic Milieu and the Spiritual Turn: The Need for Theoretical Revision, by Colin Campbell3. Holistic Healing and the Reestablishment of Religion in the United States, by Candy Gunther Brown4. Spiritualizing Therapy: How Psychologists Use Spirituality to Counter the Hyperindividualistic Spirit of the Therapeutic Framework, by Michal Pagis and Orly Tal5. The Spiritual Impulse in Silicon Valley: A Content and Discourse Analysis of Wired Magazine, 2001–2020, by Paul K. McClure and Christopher M. Pieper6. Lagged Identities and the Underestimated Civic Significance of Spirituality, by Evan Stewart, Tim Dacey, and Jaime Kucinskas7. When the Spiritual Is Political: Self-Realization and the Quest for Social Justice, by Galen Watts8. A Startling Alliance? Spirituality, Populism, and Antivaccination Protest, by Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers9. Conspirituality: An (Un)happy Marriage of Conspiracy Theories and Spirituality?, byJaron HarambamBibliographyContributorsIndex