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      "Je kunt geen vrede brengen, je kunt het alleen voelen." Hoe contemplatieve activisten de wereld (willen) veranderen

      Religie & Samenleving
      Radboud University

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          A growing group of people uses contemplation as a spiritual response to complex global challenges such as conflict. Peace, these contemplative activists argue, is not an external material condition, but an embodied, mystical experience beyond religion, language and social roles that brings about social change. Scholars should therefore reconsider the claim that spirituality in the public domain only supports the neoliberal status quo. This article shows such movements instead challenge a liberal conceptualization of peace by rejecting an ontological separation of inner experiences and outer reality. The argument developed in this article, then, is twofold: firstly, contemplative activism shows that spirituality becomes a form of social action and social action becomes a form of spirituality. Secondly, if scholars want to better understand how spiritual people respond to societal challenges, they must begin by recognizing that for many spiritual activists interior experiences and exterior realities are not separate realms of being.

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          Journal
          Religie & Samenleving
          R&S
          Radboud University
          2773-1669
          1872-3497
          March 13 2023
          March 13 2023
          : 18
          : 1
          : 5-25
          Article
          10.54195/RS.13362
          75be4897-9498-4c34-b7fd-5ea89525af11
          © 2023

          https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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          Sociology,General religious studies,Social & Behavioral Sciences,Religious studies & Theology,Systematic theology and Philosophy of religion,History

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