Table Of ContentRELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE MODERN WORLD
The
Revolution
Spiritual
why way
religion is giving to spirituality
Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead
Benjamin Seel, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Karin lusting
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The Spiritual Revolution
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RELIGION SPIRITUALITY
THE MODERN WORLD
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The Revolution
Spiritual
Why Way
Religion Giving
is
to Spirituality
Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead
with Benjamin Seel, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Karin lusting
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Contents
List ofPlates viii
Preface x
Introduction 1
1 Distinguishing Religion and Spirituality: Findings from Kendal 12
2 Testing the Spiritual Revolution Claim in Kendal 33
3 Evidence for a Spiritual Revolution: Britain and USA 49
4 Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Sacralization
and Secularization 77
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5 Looking to the Future 129
Appendices 151
Notes 159
References 176
Index 190
Platesfall between pp. 99 and 100
Plates
Platesfall betweenpp. 99 and 100
Plate 1 The main street ofKendal. Private collection
Plate 2 The Kendal Project team: Benjamin Seel, Bronislaw Szerszynski,
Linda Woodhead, Karin Tusting and Paul Heelas (with Abby Day,
second to left). This photograph, taken in Dent (near Kendal),
also illustrates the spiritual revolution in action: the team stand in
front of a building that was.once a chapel and is now part of a
meditation centre. Private collection.
Plate 3 Imposing authority: the medieval parish church in Kendal - a con-
gregation ofhumanity (Anglican). Private collection.
Plate 4 Informal relationality: inside Willow Creek Community Church,
a 'seeker church' on the outskirts of Chicago - a flourishing con-
gregation ofexperiential difference. Private collection.
Plate 5 Rainbow Cottage, a holistic centre on the outskirts of Kendal.
Private collection.
Plate 6 Church attenders at the parish church in Kendal. Private collection.
Plate 7 Holistic contact: practitioner Linda McGarvey ofRainbow Cottage
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with researcher Benjamin Seel. The Westmoreland Gazette
Plate 8 Life-as religion, clearly stated by an advert in the USA. Private
collection.
Plate 9 'Psychological and Biblical truth': the discourse of a congregation
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ofexperiential difference. Willow Creek Association.
Plate 10 The unique, the holistic, and wellbeing: craniosacral therapy,
Kendal. © Adam Rubinstein R.C.S.T., Kendal.
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Plate II Yoga in the mainstream oflife. Kendal Leisure Centre.
