New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being

Geraldine Mossiere is an anthropologist and associate professor at the Universite de Montreal's Institute of Religious Studies. Her more than fifty professional publications address contemporary religiosities including religious diversity in secular societies and the growing trend toward spirituality discourse. She has also published and edited numerous books and special reviews on conversion processes and experiences (see Converties a l'islam. Parcours de femmes au Quebec et en France, Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2013). She now works on the healing dimension of spiritualities as well as spirituality in public institutions.

Introduction: Spiritual economies and the ethics of well-being.- Section 1: Ethics of well-being and the spiritual subject.- Chapter 1. Discovering a True Self and Experiencing Uncertain Subjectivity. Gap and Contradiction between conceptions of the Modern Subject in New Spiritualties.- Chapter 2. Personal Development Discourse and the Culture of Well-Being: The Secular Wing of the Spiritual Turn.- Chapter 3. Well-being and virtuous life among converts : how spiritual coaching delineate relational subjectivities.- Section 2: Institutionalization and (de)regulation of spiritualities and good life.- Chapter 4. Smudging, Yoga and Ethical Veganism: Exploring the Boundaries of Religious and Spiritual Practice in Law.- Chapter 5. Iran from the 1990s: Economic reforms and spiritual transformations?.- Chapter 6. When Spirituality Becomes Spiritual Labor: Workplace Mindfulness as Practice of Well-being and Productivity.- Chapter 7. The Ethics of Paying Attention: Nature Connection as SubjectiveActivism.- Section 3: New spiritualities and the social construction of the good life.- Chapter 8. The Entanglement of Spirituality, Wellbeing and 'Spiritual Economy' in Brazil: The Shift from 'Living well together' to 'Leading a good life'.- Chapter 9. The institutionalization of Spiritual Healing in West Africa: The Emergence of Roqya Clinics in Ivory Coast.- Chapter 10. The Land of Tomorrow: Nature and the Curation of the Self on the West Coast.- Chapter 11. Well-being in Neo-spiritual Dance Practice.- Chapter 12. Circles of «sacred femininity» in Russia: balancing between tradition and innovation in working on self.- Index.