Situating Spirituality

Brian Steensland is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is the author of The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle Over Guaranteed Income and co-editor of The New Evangelical Social Engagement. Jaime Kucinskas is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Hamilton College. She is the author of The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out (Oxford, 2019). Anna Sun is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionEminently Social Spirituality: Context, Practice, and PowerBrian Steensland, Jaime Kucinskas, Anna SunPart One: Context1. Social Practices and Cultural Contexts: Framework for the Study of SpiritualityNancy Ammerman2. The Gods of Modern Spirituality Linda Woodhead3. Fearful Asymmetry: Rethinking the Boundaries between Religion and SpiritualityAnna Sun4. Trumping the Devil! Engendering the Spirituality of the Marketplace within Africa and the African DiasporaAfe Adogame5. Methodological Innovations for the Study of SpiritualityBradley Wright6. Shifts in Spiritual and Religious Self-Perceptions in the First Year of CollegeAlyssa N. Rochenbach7. Spirituality among African Americans: Inter-Racial and Intra-Racial Differences across Followers of Various Religious TraditionsJason SheltonPart Two: Practice8. The Micro-interactive Order of SpiritualityMichael Pagis9. Ecstasies: Or, the Limitations of Vanilla Spirituality StudiesMelissa Wilcox10. Textures of Spirituality in Rural MalawiAnn Swidler11. Gifts, Weapons, and Values: The Language of Spirituality in 21st Century Central AmericaRobert BrennemanPart Three: Power12. Everything is Connected: Relocating Spiritual Power from Nature to SocietyStef Aupers13. Yoga Spirituality in the Context of U.S. InstitutionsCandy Gunther Brown14. Training Spiritual Caregivers: Spirituality in Chaplaincy Programs in Theological EducationWendy Cage, Beth Stroud, Patrick K. Palmer, George Fitchett, Trace Haythorne, Casey Clevenger15. Spirituality and Islam: Sufism in IndonesiaRachel Rinaldo16. The Transmission of Spirituality in Broader Landscapes of PowerJaime KucinskasConclusion17. Three Questions About Spirituality: Its Meaning, Influence, and FutureBrian SteenslandIndex

Situating Spirituality successfully, and imaginatively, captures the full breadth of scholarship on spirituality, in all its manifest diversity, making it a critical contribution to this burgeoning, if messy, field.