INTRODUCTION: Spirituality—Privatized Pseudo-Religion?

G Watts, D Houtman - The Shape of Spirituality: The Public …, 2024 - degruyter.com
The religious tide is turning in the West. Once the bas-tion of Christendom, it has become
increasingly fitting to speak of a “post-Christian” civilization. The trends that began …

The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality

G Watts, F Cerchiaro, L Schnabel - Sociology of Religion, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Although women and men identify as “spiritual” in similar numbers, far more women
participate in the holistic milieu. We seek to solve this “gender puzzle” by fleshing out the …

Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-Canadian Spiritual but Not Religious Millennials

G Watts, S Reimer - Sociology of Religion, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we advance a cultural sociological approach to religious change that
foregrounds the role of symbolic pollution and shifting religious imaginaries. Leveraging …

A Secularization of Cultural Politics? Changing Patterns of Cultural-Political Polarization and Voting Behavior in Western Europe, 1981-2017

A Pless, D Houtman, B Meuleman, P Achterberg - 2023 - lirias.kuleuven.be
This project studies transformations of cultural politics in Western Europe in the last four
decades. Whereas the'new'cultural cleavage is typically viewed as pitting broadly culturally …