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Thoughts on “Capitalist spirituality” – a term offered by J. Carrette and R. King
– a term offered in Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion by J. Carrette and R. King In their book Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion Jeremy Carrette and Richard King argue that the replacement of tradition-specific religion with a more free-form search for personal meaning has resulted in a sort of a vacuum that called for a new search for meaning, which in turn has been filled by branding. They describe this tendency as consumerist spirituality that promises the quick fixes, easy achievable states without much commitment or work done. The authors argue that the main problem with modern spiritualities is that they are not demanding enough,…
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Notes on categorization of SBNRs into various types by L. Mercadante in her book Belief Without Boarders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious”
Linda A. Mercadante points out in her book Belief Without Boarders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious that people unaffiliated with organized religion are an understudied group. There have been several attempts to arrange them into categories, as, for example, Robert Fuller who proposed in his Spiritual but not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America to divide the unchurched group into the totally indifferent, those with ambiguous relationship with organized religion, and the actual spiritual but not religious. Mercadante, though, looked even closer into the SBNR group and drew the distinctive categories within it. Understanding that there are several different types of people who identify themselves as spiritual but…