Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Is Destroying Our Ability to Think, Depoliticising Society and Making Us Miserable (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781846947025)

Dave Webster's book is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality makes us confused, apolitical and miserable - whether that spirituality is from conventional religious roots, from a new-age buffet of beliefs, or from some re-imagined ancient system of belief. Looking beyond this dismissal, the book looks towards atheistic existentialism, Theravada Buddhism and political engagement as a means to imagine what a post-spiritual world view could look like.
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Author: David Webster
ISBN-10: 1846947022
ISBN-13: 9781846947025
Publisher: Zer0 Books
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2012
Pages: 97
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.55w x 0.39d