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New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being pp 1–14Cite as

Introduction: Spirituality, Well-Being and the Neoliberal Canopy

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Part of the book series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach ((RELSPHE,volume 6))

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The emergence of new spiritualities has challenged classical methods for studying religious behaviors, often leading scholars to focus on spiritual discourses and narratives. The sociologist Nancy Ammerman recently suggested approaching spirituality as a (lived) practice, while other authors have focused on the conditions of emergence for new spiritualities, including new authorities (Wood, 2007). The chapters and case studies in this book are intended to become part of this broader conversation as they address many dimensions of the dynamics between the contemporary regimes of spirituality and the thriving cultures of well-being as they unfold under the neoliberal canopy.

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    The term also raises issues of autonomy and the nature of the self, and some of the contributions in this volume address the problem of the deconstruction of the very notion of “subject”.

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Mossière, G. (2022). Introduction: Spirituality, Well-Being and the Neoliberal Canopy. In: Mossière, G. (eds) New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being. Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06263-6_1

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