Familiar urban sights: the pub regular on his stool, beer mug in hand, or the young couple
shining out on the dance floor, or the improvising musicians in a jazz clubthese are …

Abstract The New Age is often depicted as the quintessential spiritual marketplace in which
seekers freely choose from an array of religious options. Empirically it is correct to point out …

Abstract Using the 2006–2014 General Social Survey and 2006–2012 Portraits of American
Life Study, I find that on three dimensions of social connectedness: social interaction …

Holistic spirituality has often been characterized by academic literature as belonging to the
private sphere, articulated through the market and anchored in the growth of narcissistic …

Americans who self-identify as spiritual but not religious (SBNR) have increased in recent
years. Existing studies of American religion often assume the SBNR as a homogeneous …

Sufi whirling, which has been minimally studied to date, is an Islamic Sufi spiritual ritual of
self-pivoting performed by spiritual seekers known as dervishes. This study empirically …

The practices of yoga and meditation are discussed based on the observation of a group of
Vedanta students and yoga practitioners. This article offers a critical reflection of the …

Yoga has become a popular health and wellbeing practice that draws on ancient
philosophy. Pratyahara is a core tenet of yoga practice and is often translated to mean …

This thesis addresses a significant lack in existing research into the lived experience of
contemporary, transnational yoga practice. It starts from two premises: that what long-term …

Alex Gearin he University of Queensland akgearin@ gmail. com here has been ongoing
scholarly debate concerning whether New Age spirituality may be deined by individualistic …