{"product_id":"9781350331716","title":"Beyond Religion and the Secular : Creative Spiritual Movements and their Relevance to Political, Social and Cultural Reform by Wayne Hudson","description":"Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of `religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect.    Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bah?'?s, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and\/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives.    Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297715990901,"sku":"9781350331716","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350331716.jpg?v=1762781386","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781350331716","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}