Clive Erricker is Reader in the Study of Religions, University College Chichester, UK. Jane Erricker is lecturer at King Alfred's University College, Winchester.

• Section 1 Influential writers and thinkers: influential writers and thinkers - a retrospective reconsideration and a contemporary contextualisation, Clive Erricker; mysticism and contemporary society - some Teihardian reflections, Ursula King; Bede Griffiths and the one universal reality, Shirley du Boulay; Thomas Merton -monk for the contemporary world, Danny Sullivan; Jiddu Krishnamurti and the open secret, Clive Erricker; the Dalai Lama - dimensions of spirituality, Geshe Thupten Jinpa; Carole Christ's "Narrative Theology", Ruth Mantin. Section 2 Faith communities: faith communities - spiritual diversity, hope and tension in the modern world, Clive Erricke; in the realm of the deathless -the Buddhist Forest Retreat Order, Clive Erricke; a society in transition - ISKCON's spiritual path, Anna King; the Amish - case study of a religious community, Richard Stevick; "until the power of the Lord comes down" - African American Pentecostal spirituality and Tarrying, David D. Daniels III; Taize - a global and post-colonial theology of community, Liam Geron; the Diaspora of the Khoja Shi'a Ithnasheeries, Clive Erricker; street spirituality - a narrative case study of a street community, Jane Erricker.

"The volume [...] demonstrates that the spiritual is essential to understanding human behaviour . . . It also opens a chink in the curtain between the canonically religious and the implicitly spiritual. The Religious Studies of the last two centuries may prove to have been the preparation for the investigation of such secularity." --Journal of Contemporary Religion 17.2 (2002)