Overview
Weaving theory and practice together, MaryCatherine Burgess explores the historically difficult relationship between religion and spirituality by applying cross-cultural elements of shamanism and Danièle Hervieu-Léger's Model of 'Religion as a Chain of Memory' to her study of contemporary shamanic practice in Scotland. Within the context of cultural and religious change, she utilises Hervieu-Léger's analytical model to uncover a shamanic worldview that carries in its memory and practice a lineage of spirituality, not belief. This distinction sheds critical light on a new paradigm of spirituality and religion that reflects how many in Western societies currently respond to institutional religion.
- | Author: Marycatherine Burgess
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- | Publication Date: Jun 29, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0826499651
- | ISBN-13: 9780826499653
