Dave Vliegenthart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4618865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dave Vliegenthart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dave |
| FAMILY NAME | Vliegenthart |
| SIGNATURE | VLIEGENTHART D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3071-4330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconsidering “Secular Religion”
The meaning of spirituality has changed sinced the Second World War. Even if we limit its use to people who (would) identify as “spiritual but not religious,” much ambiguity and diversity remains around the concept of spirituality. Elsewhere, I suggested abandoning “spirituality” and replacing it with a precisely defined “secular religion,” as a more useful analytical tool. Here, I reconsider this suggestion since secular religion is unable to di…
The meaning of metamodern spirituality
Is contemporary spirituality a modern, postmodern or metamodern category? This article claims that contemporary spirituality is a metamodern category because it clearly shows both modern and postmodern tendencies. This claim is supported by a case study of ‘grassroots spirituality’. Grassroots spirituality shows modern tendencies in its Enlightenment pursuit of rationality, liberty, equality, and democracy as well as in its Romantic search for tr…
Dialectical thinking in contemporary spirituality
Psychologists are paying increasing attention to a distinction between two ways of thinking. Cognitive psychologists discern between non-reflective “intuitive” and critical reflective “analytic” thinking. Cultural psychologists discern between context-focused “holistic” and object-focused “analytic” thinking. Both find the former strongly correlated with religious beliefs and Asian cultures, the latter with secular beliefs and Euro-American cultu…
Reasoned Flights beyond Reason
New religious movements in modern western culture often emphasize experience at the expense of reason; for that reason, some scholars have described their teachings as “flights from reason.” This description has been rightly criticized. Nevertheless, it is not entirely wrong. Many founders of new religious movements do claim immediate insight into a (divine) reality that transcends the intellect. And yet, they and their followers often spend much…
(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”
The disenchantment of reality has bankrupted conventional sources of meaning for many people in modern Western cultures. This has led a growing number of figures and groups to search for alternative sources of meaning. Typical of their quests for meaning is the entanglement of secular and religious discourses. Since the twentieth century, scholars have studied the social configurations of these figures and groups as “cults” or “new religious move…
Can Neurotheology Explain Religion
Neurotheology is a fast-growing field of research. Combining philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and religious studies, it takes a new approach to old questions on religion. What is religion and why do we have it? Neurotheologists focus on the search for the neural correlate of religious experiences. If we can trace religious experiences to specific parts of the brain, chances are we can reduce religion as such to that grey soggy matter as well. Th…
(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”
The disenchantment of reality has bankrupted conventional sources of meaning for many people in modern Western cultures. This has led a growing number of figures and groups to search for alternative sources of meaning. Typical of their quests for meaning is the entanglement of secular and religious discourses. Since the twentieth century, scholars have studied the social configurations of these figures and groups as “cults” or “new religious move…
Can Neurotheology Explain Religion
Neurotheology is a fast-growing field of research. Combining philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and religious studies, it takes a new approach to old questions on religion. What is religion and why do we have it? Neurotheologists focus on the search for the neural correlate of religious experiences. If we can trace religious experiences to specific parts of the brain, chances are we can reduce religion as such to that grey soggy matter as well. Th…
(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”
The disenchantment of reality has bankrupted conventional sources of meaning for many people in modern Western cultures. This has led a growing number of figures and groups to search for alternative sources of meaning. Typical of their quests for meaning is the entanglement of secular and religious discourses. Since the twentieth century, scholars have studied the social configurations of these figures and groups as “cults” or “new religious move…
Reasoned Flights beyond Reason
New religious movements in modern western culture often emphasize experience at the expense of reason; for that reason, some scholars have described their teachings as “flights from reason.” This description has been rightly criticized. Nevertheless, it is not entirely wrong. Many founders of new religious movements do claim immediate insight into a (divine) reality that transcends the intellect. And yet, they and their followers often spend much…
Dialectical thinking in contemporary spirituality
Psychologists are paying increasing attention to a distinction between two ways of thinking. Cognitive psychologists discern between non-reflective “intuitive” and critical reflective “analytic” thinking. Cultural psychologists discern between context-focused “holistic” and object-focused “analytic” thinking. Both find the former strongly correlated with religious beliefs and Asian cultures, the latter with secular beliefs and Euro-American cultu…
Reconsidering “Secular Religion”
The meaning of spirituality has changed sinced the Second World War. Even if we limit its use to people who (would) identify as “spiritual but not religious,” much ambiguity and diversity remains around the concept of spirituality. Elsewhere, I suggested abandoning “spirituality” and replacing it with a precisely defined “secular religion,” as a more useful analytical tool. Here, I reconsider this suggestion since secular religion is unable to di…
The meaning of metamodern spirituality
Is contemporary spirituality a modern, postmodern or metamodern category? This article claims that contemporary spirituality is a metamodern category because it clearly shows both modern and postmodern tendencies. This claim is supported by a case study of ‘grassroots spirituality’. Grassroots spirituality shows modern tendencies in its Enlightenment pursuit of rationality, liberty, equality, and democracy as well as in its Romantic search for tr…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Spirituality (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)