Brahma Kumaris as a ‘Reflexive Tradition’
Regular price
€44.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=John Walliss
Advance Party
Anthony Giddens theory
Author_John Walliss
Brahma Kumaris
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
Category=QRA
Committed Members
contemporary religiosity
Dada Lekhraj
Dadi Janki
Detraditionalisation Thesis
Eclectic Users
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
External Voices
identity construction
Instrumental Users
Interpretative Drifters
Membership Types
new religious movements
Personal Reflexivity
post-traditional society
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga practice
Real
Reflexive Biographies
Reflexive Modernisation
Reflexive Tradition
reflexive tradition in modernity
Social
Soul Consciousness
Spiritual Searchers
Spiritual Supermarket
Supreme Soul
Symbolic Tokens
Theory
UN
University's Membership
University’s Membership
Vice Versa
World
Product details
- ISBN 9781138730380
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This title was first published in 2002. Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, a millenarian New Religious Movement of Indian origin, this book examines the status of tradition in the contemporary world through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a post-traditional society. Wallis examines both the ways in which forms of tradition not only persist but also flourish in the contemporary world and also the manner in which such traditions are drawn on and (re)created by individuals in their ongoing construction of self-identity. Illuminating some of the difficulties encountered when social theory is applied to 'the real world', this book also offers a way of theorising about the status of contemporary religiosity that does not refer directly to the notion of secularisation.
