How would one define spirituality of man postnowoczesnego? Is God a trend? Anna Sobolewska, critic and scholar of literature, finds that symptomatic of our times are individual and pozawyznaniowe religious exploration. Everyday Mystics author points out, among others the fascination with Eastern spirituality Western people. Passage to India often treated as a pilgrimage, "an expedition into themselves." Visitors from the West, of another civilization and another the world, begin to apply practices recommended by master yogis. Sobolewska not only describes this phenomenon from the perspective of a researcher of culture. It shares its own experience "touristy trip to India. The author captures the atmosphere of celebrations associated with rites initializing. Recounts a meeting with nearby gurus and their co-religionists.
maps present a collection of spiritual essays on the various manifestations of religiosity of modern humans. Spectrum Sobolewska interest is extremely broad. The author analyzes the phenomenon of elite culture (poems, legacy philosophers of religion) and mass (books popularizing the esoteric knowledge).
"Is God a trend?" - Says the student newspaper, "What's New." "Emblem, flag and cross, symbols of once inviolable and sacred, and they have now become part of pop culture. As McDonald's logo. " Today God is either absent, or trends, like the chicken egg with a feather in a small pot - a fashionable gift for Easter 2004. Spiritual life, to preserve health and longevity, is now trendy. Worth investing in, as in keeping a slim silhouette.
The ads often appear to form Meditating in lotus position with the message: "we meditate on this a favorable proposition." Incidentally, sacred to Hindus mark Om can be found everywhere today, even on her panties. Ads often refer to the counterculture slogans such as "Be yourself, choose Pepsi," "Unleash your consciousness" and "Break the rules." The last password antymieszczańskie apparently, is associated with the new water-Old Spice. Mass culture absorbs everything, including rebellion and provocation. I This type of advertising, not the bourgeois, the cult of the brazen things, and consumption, could be a symbol of the "tower Bubel 'turn of the century.
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