The rising culture and worldview of contemporary spirituality: A sociological study of potentials and pitfalls for sustainable development

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1057-1065

  Hedlund de Witt, Annick ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contemporary spirituality; Cultural change; Developmental psychology; Environmental behavior; Sustainable development; Worldviews

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL TRADITION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79953754853     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Aldrigde A. Religion in the Contemporary World. A Sociological Introduction 2000, Polity Press, Cambridge.
2. Aupers S., Houtman D. Beyond the spiritual supermarket: the social and public significance of New Age spirituality. Journal of Contemporary Religion 2006, 21(2):201-222.
3. Boiral O., Cayer M., Baron C.M. The action logics of environmental leadership: a developmental perspective. Journal of Business Ethics 2009, 85:479-499.
4. Brown L.R. Plan B 3.0. Mobilizing to save civilization 2008, Norton & Company, New York.
5. Buenstorf G., Cordes C. Can sustainable consumption be learned? A model of cultural evolution. Ecological Economics 2008, 67:646-657.
6. Campbell C. I Shop Therefore I Know that I Am: The Metaphysical Basis of Modern Consumerism. Ekstrom, K 2004, 27-44. Elusive Consumption, Berg, Oxford. H. Brembeck (Ed.).
7. Campbell C. The Easternization of the West. A thematic account of cultural change in the Modern era 2007, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder.
8. Coad A., de Haan P., Woersdorfer J.S. Consumer support for environmental policies: an application to purchases of green cars. Ecological Economics 2009, 68:2078-2086.
9. Cook-Greuter S. Mature ego development: a gateway to ego transcendence?. Journal of Adult Development 2000, 7(4):227-240.
10. De Vries B.J.M., Petersen A.C. Conceptualizing sustainable development. An assessment methodology connecting values, knowledge, worldviews and scenarios. Ecological Economics 2009, 68:1006-1019.
11. Devall B., Sessions G. Deep Ecology: Living as if nature mattered 1985, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City.
12. Dryzek J.S. The Politics of the Earth. Environmental Discourses 2005, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
13. Duintjer O. Het belang van nieuwe spiritualiteit in een expansieve maatschappij [The importance of new spirituality in an expansive society]. Maken en breken. Over produktie en spiritualiteit [To make or to break. About production and spirituality] 1988, 17-34. Kok, Kampen. B. Nagel (Ed.).
14. Dutcher D.D., Finley J.C., Luloff A.E., Johnson J.B. Connectivity with nature as a measure of environmental values. Environment and Behavior 2007, 39:474-493.
15. Esbjörn-Hargens S., Wilber K. Toward a Comprehensive Integration of Science and Religion: a Post-Metaphysical Approach. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science 2006, Oxford University Press, Oxford. P. Clayton, Z. Simpson (Eds.).
16. FAO Livestock's long shadow. Environmental issues and options 2006, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.
17. Ferguson J. Development. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology 2002, Routledge, London. A. Barnard, J. Spencer (Eds.).
18. Fowler J.W. Stages of Faith. The psychology of human development and the quest for meaning 1981, Harper San Francisco, San Francisco.
19. Gibson J.W. A Reenchanted World. The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature. 2009, Metropolitan Books, NewYork.
20. Gladwell M. The Tipping Point. How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference 2000, Abacus, London.
21. Gore A. Earth in the balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit 1992, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
22. Habermas J. Communication and the Evolution of Society. Translated and with an Introduction by Thomas McCarthy 1976, Beacon Press, Boston.
23. Hanegraaff W. New Age Religion and Western Culture. Western Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought 1996, State University of New York Press, New York.
24. Heelas P. The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity 1996, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
25. Heelas P. Introduction: on Differentiation and Dedifferentiation. Religion, modernity and postmodernity 1998, 1-18. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. P. Heelas (Ed.).
26. Heelas P., Woodhead L. The Spiritual Revolution. Why religion is giving way to spirituality 2005, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
27. Heelas P. Spiritualities of Life. New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism 2008, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
28. Höllinger F. Does the counter-cultural character of New Age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of New Age followers. Journal of Contemporary Religion 2004, 19(3):289-309.
29. Houtman D., Aupers S. The spiritual turn and the decline of tradition: the spread of post-Christian spirituality in 14 Western countries, 1981-2000. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2007, 46(3):305-320.
30. Houtman D., Mascini P. Why do churches become empty, while New Age grows? secularization and religious change in the Netherlands. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2002, 41(3):455-473.
31. Houtman D., Aupers S., Heelas P. Christian religiosity and new age spirituality: a cross-cultural comparison. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2009, 48(1):161-184.
32. Hulme M. Why We Disagree about Climate Change. Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
33. Inglehart R., Welzel C. Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy. The Human Development Sequence 2005, Cambridge University Press, New York.
34. Jacob J., Jovic E., Brinkerhoff M.B. Personal and planetary well-being: mindfulness meditation, pro-environmental behavior and personal quality of life in a survey from the social justice and ecological sustainability movement. Social Indicators Research 2009, 93:275-294.
35. Karp D.G. Values and their effect on pro-environmental behavior. Environment and Behavior 1996, 28:111-133.
36. Kegan R. The Evolving Self. Problem and Process in Human Development 1982, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts.
37. Kegan R. In Over Our Heads: the Mental Demands of Modern Life 1994, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts.
38. Lasch C. The Culture of Narcissism. American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 1978, Norton & Company, New York.
39. Lemaire T. Met open zinnen. Natuur, landschap, aarde [With open senses. Nature, landscape, earth] 2002, Ambo, Amsterdam.
40. Leopold A. A Sand County Almanac. With Essays on Conversation from Round River 1949, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
41. Lewis J.R. Approaches to the Study of the New Age Movement. Perspectives on the New Age 1992, State University of New York, New York. J.R. Lewis, J.G. Melton (Eds.).
42. Loevinger J. Ego Development: Conceptions and Theories 1977, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.
43. Loevinger J. Paradigms of Personality 1987, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
44. Macy J. World as Lover. World as Self. Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal 2007, Parallax Press, Berkeley.
45. Marshall G. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology 1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2nd ed.
46. Mayer F.S., Frantz C.M. The connectedness to nature scale: a measure of individuals' feeling in community with nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology 2004, 24:503-515.
47. Mc Adams D.P. The Person. An Introduction to Personality Psychology 1994, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, USA. 2nd ed.
48. Milfont T.L., Duckitt J. The structure of environmental attitudes: a first- and second-order confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology 2004, 24:289-303.
49. Mitroff I.I., Denton E.A. A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Values in the Workplace 1999, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.
50. Murphy M., Donavan S. The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation: A Review of Contemporary Research with a Comprehensive Bibliography 1931-1996 1999, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Sausolito. 2nd ed.
51. Naess A. Ecology, community and lifestyle. Outline of an ecosophy 1989, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
52. Nicol D. Subtle activism: The inner dimension of social transformation. Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies 2010, ProQuest/UMI, Ann Arbor.
53. O'Brien K.L. Do values subjectively define the limits to climate change adaptation?. Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. W.N. Adger, I. Lorenzoni, K.L. O'Brien (Eds.).
54. O'Brien K.L., Wolf J. A values-based approach to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. WIREs Climate Change 2010, 1:232-242.
55. Orme-Johson D.W. Preventing crime through the Maharishi-effect. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 2003, 36(1):257-281.
56. Partridge C. The Re-Enchantment of the West. Volume 2. Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture 2005, T&T Clark International, New York.
57. Ray P., Anderson S.R. The Cultural Creatives. How 50 million people are changing the world 2000, Three Rivers Press, New York.
58. Rogers E.M. Diffusion of Innovations 1995, The Free Press, New York. fourth edition.
59. Schrodt P.A. A Methodological Critique of a Test of the Effects of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field. The Journal of Conflict Resolution 1990, 34:745-755.
60. Schultz P.W., Zelezny L. Values as predictors of environmental attitudes: evidence for consistency across 14 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology 1999, 19:255-265.
61. Shwom R., Bidwell D., Dan A., Dietz T. Understanding U.S. public support for domestic climate change policies. Global Environmental Change 2010, 20:472-482.
62. Sorin D. Sustainability, Self-identity and the Sociology of Consumption. Sustainable Development 2010, 18:172-181.
63. Sutcliffe S., Bowman M. Beyond New Age: Exploring Alternative Spirituality 2000, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
64. Tarnas R. Cosmos and Psyche. Intimations of a New World View 2007, Plume Printing, New York.
65. Taylor C. Sources of the Self. The Making of the Modern Identity 1989, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
66. Taylor E. Shadow Culture. Psychology and Spirituality in America 1999, Counterpoint, Washington D.C.
67. Taylor B. Dark Green Religion. Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future 2010, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
68. Verdonk D. Het dierloze gerecht. Een vegetarische geschiedenis van Nederland [Animals to Order. A Vegetarian History of The Netherlands] 2009, Boom, Amsterdam.
69. Wardekker J.A., Petersen A.C., Van der Sluijs J.P. Ethics and public perception of climate change: exploring the Christian voices in the US public debate. Global Environmental Change 2009, 19:512-521.
70. White L. The historical roots of our ecologic crisis. Science 1967, 155:1203-1207.
71. Wilber K. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution 1995, Shambhala, Boston.
72. Wilber K. Eye to Eye. The Quest for the New Paradigm 2001, Shambhala, Boston. 3rd ed., revised.
73. Wilber K. Integral Spirituality. A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World 2007, Integral Books, Boston.
74. York M. New Age commodification and appropriation of spirituality. Journal of Contemporary Religion 2001, 16(3):361-372.
75. Zweers W. Participating with Nature. Outline for an Ecologization of our worldview 2000, International Books, Utrecht.