Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion

“Religion” and “spirituality” are often thought to occupy two separate realms of a person’s existence with “religion” understood as a social, collective, and institutionally-based phenomena. “Spirituality”, on the other hand, is often thought to occupy a more ephemeral and individual domain that borrows from a variety of religious traditions. While scholars have long recognized the importance that religion and religious organizations have played in social activism, they have typically seen...