Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

E. Hense - Introduction: Present-Day Spiritualities in Confessional, Popular, Professional and Aesthetic Contexts: Contrasts or Overlap?

PART ONE. SPIRITUALITY IN RELIGIONS

P. van der Velde - What Is 'Spiritual' in Modern Western Buddhism?

E. Hense - Current Forms of Christian Spirituality

P. Nissen - Old Forms, New Motives? Spirituality in Traditional Forms of Catholic Popular Devotion

H. Knoblauch - Popular Spirituality

J. Biberman - Spirituality in Organizations: Parallels with Spirituality in Other Disciplines - Toward a Coherent Theory

P. Heelas - CAM: Healing the Person, Spiritual Humanism, and the Cultivation of Humanity

J. Goud - Spirituality and Eroticism. Corpus Mysticum in Contemporary Dutch Literature

PART TWO. DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO SPIRITUALITY

M.W. Elliott - Overlap and Contrasts between Forms of Spirituality from a Theological Perspective

M. Farias - Inside the Spiritual Mind: Cognitive Implications of Spiritual versus Religious Engagement

F. Jespers - Explorations in the Border Region of Religious and Secular Spiritualities from the Perspective of Religious Studies

E. Hense, F. Jespers, and P. Nissen - Epilogue: Some Remarkable Overlaps in the Study of Present-Day Spiritualities

Index of Names