More Spiritual Than Religious: Changes In The Religious Field Require New Approaches

Abstract

‘Lived religion ’ signifi es a shift of focus—from the institutionalized forms of beliefs and practices to a more precise focus of attention on the religiosity of the people, of individuals and groups as embedded in the contexts of life-worlds and biographies. Thus, ‘lived religion’ includes attention for beliefs and practices which may not be in accord with the offi cial teachings of religious traditions. ‘Lived religion ’ may dwell in sub-currents of religious organizations, or fl ourish outside organized religion. In our Western cultures the self-identifi cation of “being spiritual ” is one of the increasingly popular ways of expressing an individual—and eventually unconventional—form of religiosity or the search for it. In this article, we focus on the “spiritual ” self-iden-tifi cation: We will discuss the problem of a theoretical framework for understanding “spirituality, ” we summarize extant empirical results and present our own empirical fi ndings, and we conclude with a prospect on future research.

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