Beyond “Religion” and “Spirituality”

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" Beyond “Religion” and “Spirituality” "
James Murphy

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065448
Doc. No	:	LA109077
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15736121-12341335‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	James Murphy
Title & Author	:	Beyond “Religion” and “Spirituality” [Article]\ James Murphy
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Archive for the Psychology of Religion
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	39/1
Page No	:	1–26
Abstract	:	A review of recent research suggests that academic and popular distinctions between “religion” and “spirituality” are unfounded. Working from a meaning systems perspective, it is argued that recognizing that “religious” and “spiritual” are part of the same broad category does not go far enough. It is argued that a wider perspective that considers the interplay of many different cultural and social factors on both beliefs and practices is more useful. This broadening of the multi-level, interdisciplinary paradigm to examine all existential cultures, including the secular and non-religious, offers the potential to better understand the complexity and diversity of lived religion. Increased use of idiographic methodologies and a more reflective approach to the constructs used in nomothetic methodologies are advocated as a way to advance the field and better explore beliefs and practices in a more ecologically valid way. A review of recent research suggests that academic and popular distinctions between “religion” and “spirituality” are unfounded. Working from a meaning systems perspective, it is argued that recognizing that “religious” and “spiritual” are part of the same broad category does not go far enough. It is argued that a wider perspective that considers the interplay of many different cultural and social factors on both beliefs and practices is more useful. This broadening of the multi-level, interdisciplinary paradigm to examine all existential cultures, including the secular and non-religious, offers the potential to better understand the complexity and diversity of lived religion. Increased use of idiographic methodologies and a more reflective approach to the constructs used in nomothetic methodologies are advocated as a way to advance the field and better explore beliefs and practices in a more ecologically valid way.
Descriptor	:	belief
Descriptor	:	lived religion
Descriptor	:	meaning systems
Descriptor	:	methodology
Descriptor	:	non-religion
Descriptor	:	psychology of religion
Descriptor	:	spirituality
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15736121-12341335‬