Enchanted everyday spiritualities

Whilst our ancestors might have spoken to the spirits to lift the curse of disease, cast a spell to invoke wealth or asked the angels for protection, such ideas are usually dismissed in today’s ‘rational’ society. Yet spirituality is re-embracing the magical and otherworldly with very real consequences for those who practice, and Sara’s research takes seriously the extraordinary experiences that arise from this. Here she talks about her new book Everyday Spirituality (Palgrave Macmillan), based on fieldwork with mediums, psychics, angel healers and Tarot readers, and she calls for us to put ‘spirit’ back at the heart of spirituality.

Dr Sara MacKian has a PhD from University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is currently a senior lecturer in health and wellbeing at The Open University. Her recent book, Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment, was published by Palgrave Macmillan earlier this year.

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