Space for God: Lived Religion at Work, Home, and Play

Williams, Roman R.

doi:10.1093/socrel/srq048

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“…The observed variation in spiritual experiences confirms the need to study in greater depth where, when, and how spiritual states occur. Doing so is consistent with scholarship on lived religion (e.g., Ammerman , ; Williams ), and it builds upon Mark Chaves's () call to investigate religious “incongruence” and variation across varied situations.…”

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States of Spiritual Awareness by Time, Activity, and Social Interaction

Kucinskas¹,

Wright

Ray

et al. 2017

Scientific Study of Religion

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We explore how people experience the sacred in their everyday lives using a recently developed research technique—smartphone‐based experience sampling method (S‐ESM). The primary goal of our experience‐driven approach is to explore the contours and variations of spiritual awareness within people's day‐to‐day lives. We seek to better understand when and where spiritual awareness is likely to arise, and the contexts in which it is rare. Our smartphone‐based data allow us to track the many contexts in which an awareness of the sacred occurs, as reported in real time during people's normal daily activities. We parse out how immediate contextual factors and how people's more habitual behaviors are related to their spiritual experiences. This illuminates a wide range of factors that influence spiritual experiences that have not received much scholarly attention, and enables us to connect cutting‐edge quantitative methods with qualitative scholarship on spirituality. We hope this will open the door to the development of new theories of situated spiritual experience.

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States of Spiritual Awareness by Time, Activity, and Social Interaction

Kucinskas¹,

Wright

Ray

et al. 2017

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Several studies demonstrate that people attach spiritual significance to a wide variety of leisure and artistic activities, including several forms of dance (Aalten 2004;Flinn 1995;Hutson 2000;Illman 2012;Schmidt and Little 2007;Williams 2010;Wuthnow 2001). However, few studies consider how spiritual experiences may vary within a single artistic leisure activity.…”

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“…Existing literature demonstrates that people infuse a variety of leisure (Schmidt and Little 2007;Williams 2010) and artistic (IUman 2012; Wuth-now 2001) activities, such as dance, with spiritual meaning. Many participants find spiritual meaning in a variety of dance forms, including ballet (Aalten 2004), electronic dance and raves (Beck and Gordon 2009;Hutson 2000;Takahashi and Olaveson 2003), African dance (Monteiro and Wall 2011), country dance (Flinn 1995), and beUy dance (Kraus 2009;Crosby 2000;Dox 2005).…”

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“I Really Don’t Do It For The Spirituality”

Kraus

2013

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To what extent does spirituality play a role in artistic leisure? Utilizing semistructured interviews with 35 belly dancers in the United States, I demonstrate how, although many participants attach spiritual meaning to belly dance, there is a wide range in both the frequency and in the contexts in which people do so. Findings show that some dancers infuse belly dance with spiritual meaning almost every time they engage in the activity, but for most participants, spirituality does not make up the majority of their belly dance experiences. Many dancers rarely or never attach spiritual significance to belly dance. Furthermore, the context in which dancers attach spiritual meaning to belly dance varies. If dancers infuse belly dance with spirituality, they will most likely do so when they are dancing alone in their homes. Only dancers who associate belly dance with spirituality most of the time that they dance, experience spirituality when dancing outside their home, such as during performances or when teaching their dance students.

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“…For example, low-income mothers rely on their faith to overcome workplace frustrations (Sullivan 2006), and business professionals pray when they encounter difficulties in their work (Ammerman 2014b;Williams 2010). This lived religion perspective indicates that the institutional boundary between religion and the workplace is becoming increasingly permeable (Day 2005;Grant, O'Neil, and Stephens 2004;Lindsay and Smith 2010;Williams 2010).…”

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Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity: Faith in the Workplace of Taiwanese Scientists

Ecklund

2017

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Although a recent body of scholarship focuses on how business professionals infuse spiritual practices in their workplaces, comparatively little attention has been paid to faith in the scientific workplace, especially in an Eastern, non-Christian context. Between 2014 and 2015, we conducted a survey of 892 scientists in Taiwan and completed interviews with 52 of our survey respondents. In this paper, we examine how scientists navigate religion in the scientific workplace. Survey results demonstrate that while scientists perceive religion and scientific research as generally separate in the abstract, in practice, they regard the boundary between religion and their workplace as somewhat permeable. Interviews further show how different groups of Taiwanese scientists create sacredness and defend secularity in scientific work. Results have implications for future research on how scientists (and potentially those in other types of professions) in nonWestern and non-Christian countries navigate faith at work.

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Space for God: Lived Religion at Work, Home, and Play

Cited by 47 publications

References 4 publications

States of Spiritual Awareness by Time, Activity, and Social Interaction

States of Spiritual Awareness by Time, Activity, and Social Interaction

“I Really Don’t Do It For The Spirituality”

Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity: Faith in the Workplace of Taiwanese Scientists

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