A Cult of Cookie Bakers
The Spiritual Qualities of Youth Social Justice Organization Free the Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3942340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Funnell-Kononuk (0000-0002-1416-8870, Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author), Sharday Mosurinjohn (Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada), Sharday Catherine Mosurinjohn (0000-0001-9829-8551, Queen's University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 462-482 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429819830959 |
| OpenAlex | W2977096972 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This article analyzes the growing youth social justice initiative Free the Children/ME to WE as a kind of "spiritual movement" by demonstrating how the discourses utilized by participants and authorities resemble both the discourse of self-spirituality, as found among actual millennials, and the discourse of youth spirituality found in the developmental sciences literature. Building on previous research in which we characterized this family of organizations as a "new secular spiritual movement," (Mosurinjohn and Funnell-Kononuk, 2017). we situate the phenomenological experience of its distinctive "WE spirituality" in the landscape of contemporary Western spirituality. Following on arguments that the politics of self-spirituality are more social change-oriented than previously acknowledged, we illuminate the logics of a spiritual movement that develops the "me" of the individual self into a part of the "we" of an imagined global community, by making spirituality coextensive with social civic engagement
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Free the Children as a ‘new secular spiritual movement’
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New Age Capitalism
Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular
The Emerging Meanings of Religiousness and Spirituality
Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant
A Properly Political Concept of Love
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On the Politics of Self-spirituality
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |