First as Sociology, then as geography: A review essay on Steven Sutcliffe and Ingvild Saelid Gilhus's new age spiritualities: Rethinking Religion

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

3-2015

Abstract

This essay reviews Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus's New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion. It shows that their attempt to redefine religion through new age spiritualities is actually an attempt to impose an economically elite social geography onto religious studies as a social fact. My central argument is that this effort in turn reveals that religious studies serves as a sociological factory for liberal economic ideologies. It suggests that to mitigate this ideological work, a shift toward critical geography in religious studies is the way forward.

Discipline

Ethics and Political Philosophy | Religion

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

Bulletin for the Study of Religion

Volume

44

Issue

1

First Page

39

Last Page

43

ISSN

2041-1863

Identifier

10.1558/bsor.v44i1.26862

Publisher

Equinox Publishing

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i1.26862

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