This insightful and provocative journey through spiritual landscapes explores the ways in
which spiritualities of life have been experienced and understood in Western society, and …

Both as producers and consumers women are more likely than men to engage with
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and 'New Age'holistic spiritualities. We …

This article uses data from the World Values Survey to study the spread of post‐Christian
spirituality (“New Age”) in 14 Western countries (1981–2000, N= 61,352). It demonstrates …

The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated
realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics) may seem antithetical …

This chapter is divided into five major sections. The first brief section describes the
observational points of departure used to launch the idea that God and other deities are …

This article discusses contemporary spiritualities, focusing in particular on the recent growth
of practices attending to “mind, body, and sprit” and centered on the goal of “holistic well …

The evidence for women's greater religious commitment is now extensive, and is
summarised in Argyle and Beit-Hallahmi (1975), Francis (1997) and Walter and Davie …

The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that
organised religions have failed. This thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways …

Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as' spiritual but not religious'.
But what does' spirituality'actually mean? And what does this recent'spiritual turn'reveal …

This study was the first to examine relations between attachment and religion–spirituality in
adults using a developmentally validated attachment assessment, the Adult Attachment …