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The Western religious labyrinth: from religion to spirituality. From the institutional to the non-conventional

This article retrieves classic questions of the Sociology of Religion such as society's supremacy, social cohesion, moral forces, membership, rationalized and intellectualized modernity, alienation, and illusion to reflect the contemporary religious labyrinth. This begins mainly with the search for a non-conventional religiosity, a pluralistic religious field, transit, bricolage, privatization and individualization, spirituality and environmentalism, spirituality in the organizational context, the "entrepeneurshipping" of the churches and the spiritualization of companies, stressing a general tendency towards "spirituality yes, religion no".

religion; religiosity; spirituality


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