The Ecology of Spirituality: Meanings, Virtues, and Practices in a Post-Religious Age

Lucy Bregman is Professor of Religion at Temple University. She is the author of several books, including Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bregman evidences keen intellectual intuition and constructive insight in staking out a path upon which others could productively follow and expand.

In this masterly overview and analysis of the roots and emergence of spirituality as a prevalent term within multiple contemporary discourses, Lucy Bregman lays out some key insights into the nature and development of spirituality within contemporary Western cultures and offers some important perspectives on what this phenomenon might be, why it has become what it is and what it might mean for society.