Critical Spirituality: Spirituality as Critical Practice in the Global Modern Age

By H Westerink

A central issue in the study of the correlation between modernity, theturn to the religious subject and the history of mysticism, concerns thecritical - some would argue 'subversive' - character and practice ofmysticism and spirituality. Is this critical practice merely theresistance effect of the modern pastoral investment in the subject? Oris there something distinctive in mysticism and spirituality that drawsit strength from various sources - knowledge, experience, desire orperhaps even one's body - and operates from a specific position or'locus'? This volume explores these questions with the aim of developinga theory of critical spirituality, that is to say, of its historicalappearances and its contemporary forms and characteristics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042934530
• ISBN13: 9789042934535
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"