Films motivate people to travel to locations previously unknown. In the process, tourists become a lot like spiritual seekers.
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‘Sport is my religion’ isn’t just a cute bumper sticker. Athletes create rituals, endure suffering and face their own mortality. Under the right circumstances, sport can be a powerful – and secular – spiritual practice.
Research shows people who suffer from loss of meaning die earlier than those who maintain purpose. We can help people find meaning again by nurturing their “spirit”.
Indigenous groups, religious movements and spiritual tourists use the psychoactive substance to communicate with forces and purge the soul.
Amid the din of cries about a ‘ban’ and the prayer ‘causing offence’ the Lord’s prayer advert has got more media traction than it would had it been screened.
Oliver Sacks, the celebrated neurologic storyteller who died at the end of August at age 82, once described himself as “strongly atheist by disposition.” Sacks could write sensitively about religion, including…
Yoga fiction is a burgeoning genre of books that tell tales of spiritual enlightenment through an ancient Indian practice. But what happens when such practices are severed from their cultural roots?
Susan Oman interviews Goldsmith’s Will Davies, author of The Happiness Industry.
Game of Thrones never even approaches the slippery and surprising world of gender manipulation and redefinition that existed in medieval spirituality.
Among the many recommendations of the Review of the Australian Curriculum is the view that the curriculum should place “more emphasis on morals, values and spirituality”. This is a significant outcome…
After a financial crisis which highlighted and unearthed corrupt management, bad business practices and selfish acts of greed, maybe it’s time to evaluate the impact of a more spiritual form of leadership…
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
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Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Affliated Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
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Foglio Endowed Chair of Spirituality & Associate Chair of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Monash University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Southern Queensland
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Professor, School of Sociology, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Research Consultant in Humanities, History and Phenomenology of Religions, The University of Queensland
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PhD researcher, University of Manchester
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Fellow, Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, History and Civics Education , University of South Australia
