Reviews for Religion and the Good Life

The average rating for Religion and the Good Life based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-27 00:00:00 Gemma Hancock Tacey offers a good analysis of the emergence and popularization of spirituality and the accompanying disinterest in institutionalized religion (meaning primarily, the "Christian" form thereof). He notes that the interest in spirituality is more an interest in the experiential "content" rather than the "form" it takes. This latter is construed as the "religion" element that is largely rejected. In the same book, however, he argues that this rejection of form is largely confined to the modern and Western forms because, as he suggests from his expansive research of youth and their spiritual quests, there is amazing interest in retrieving ancient forms of spirituality. Strangely enough, he doesn't deal with the question whether it is even possible to have spiritual content without form, or whether the distinction of form and content is even applicable to spirituality.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-30 00:00:00 Brian Doner Good presentation of a world-wide movement especially among the young for a contemporary spirituality that is not necessarily connected to any one established religion. Author draws on many insights from his students in his Spiritualty course at a university in Australia. Challenging and hopeful.