Description
Current data indicates that a growing number of individuals in the English-speaking world are identifying as “spiritual, but not religious” (SBNR). Using ethnographic data collected at two important sites of spiritual pilgrimage and tourism—Glastonbury, England and Sedona, Arizona—this project argues that seekers at these places produce spirituality as much as they consume it. Using the lens of economy, this project examines how seekers conceptualize the (super-) natural resources at these sites, the laborious practices they perform to transform these resources, and the valuation and exchange of the resultant products. In so doing, the project complicates prevailing notions, both among scholars and the public, that contemporary unaffiliated spirituality is predominantly an individualistic consumer process.
Details
Title
- Spiritual economy: resources, labor, and exchange in Glastonbury and Sedona
Contributors
- Vann, Jodie Ann (Author)
- Fessenden, Tracy (Thesis advisor)
- Cady, Linell (Committee member)
- Kripal, Jeffrey (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2018
Subjects
- Regional Studies
- Sociology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Economy
- Ethnography
- religion
- Spirituality
- tourism
- Spirituality--Economic aspects--Arizona--Sedona.
- Spirituality
- Tourism--Arizona--Sedona--Religious aspects.
- tourism
- Spirituality--Economic aspects--England--Glastonbury.
- Spirituality
- Tourism--England--Glastonbury--Religious aspects.
- tourism
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Note
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thesisPartial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2018
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bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-243)
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Field of study: Religious studies
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Statement of Responsibility
by Jodie Ann Vann