Politicization of holistic spirituality, mistrust of science and public space in Argentina post Covid-19

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ID2319208
AuthorsN Viotti (0000-0002-1868-5453, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume70
Issue4
Pages566-580
Publication date2023-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00377686231212877
OpenAlexW4391282397
LanguageEN
References cited12

As many analysts of contemporary spirituality have pointed out, the renewed public presence of alternative non-denominational spirituality, generally identified with those who define it as 'spiritual, but not religious', is a process that forces us to rethink the more classical relationships between religion, public sphere, and politics. In this article, the author discusses in detail the relationships between holistic lifestyles and spiritualities in relation to public distrust of COVID-19 in Argentina. The strong presence of discourses and practices related to therapeutic holism in the trajectories and arguments of distrust of official expert politics will lead to establish a relatively unanalyzed and quite unexpected relationship in studies on the politicization of contemporary spirituality

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Alternative medicine · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Epistemology · Outbreak · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Spirituality · Medicine · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Virology

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