Bibliography 2: #BIB38813

Key	BIB38813
Reference type	Book
Title	Beyond Religion and the Secular : Creative Spiritual Movements and Their Relevance to Political, Social and Cultural Reform
Author	Hudson, Wayne
Year	2022
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Place published	New York
ISBN	9781350331716
Abstract	"Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been more creative - redeveloping older resources, often in unexpected ways - than one might expect. Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Latter-Day Saints, two controversial American churches. Most of these six movements have counterintuitive features that would lead secular Western intellectuals, basing themselves on Enlightenment thinking, to dismiss them as irrelevant and inconsequential. However, this book reveals how these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in social, scientific, educational and cultural initiatives. Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the discussion in a new direction, considering the utopian intentionality that such cultural productions reveal."
Notes	LCCN 2022940111. "The Bahá’ís : Prosociality and Global Civilization": chapter 2, pp. 21-37, notes 139-144.
Language	English
Keywords	CREATIVITY; RELIGIONS; INNOVATION
Number of pages	vii, 194
Accession number	22632076
File attachments	internal-pdf://0054826268/Hudson - Beyond_Religion_Secular - ch2 Bahais.pdf

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