Abstract
This paper examines the emergence and features of new therapeutic and coaching practices in contemporary Sweden, offering to the individual therapy or coaching in order to find his or her “inner potential” as a means to achieve health, self-realization and success in life as well as in work. This focus on the inner self and the formation of a new, late modern selfhood demands new ritual creativity, responding to the individual longing for intense experiences of transformations and the authentic self. The development of a new outlook on the self is thus in focus in these practices, i.e. the individual is creating new ways to stage him- or herself. In this construction of a new self, or at least the image of an ideal self, the neospiritual therapist or coach is very much in demand and the discourse is most often couched in a combination of spiritual and science-like concepts.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Post-Secular Religious Practices |
| Editors | Tore Ahlbäck, Björn Dahla |
| Publisher | Åbo: Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History |
| Pages | 110-127 |
| Volume | 24 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-952-12-2700-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Publication series
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| Volume | 24 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0582-3226 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (015017000)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- History of Religions
Free keywords
- post-secular rituals
- therapeutic and coaching practices
- health
- coaching
- Sweden