Harmonious Life: spiritual techniques and political attitudes of the spiritual centre "Harmonious Life" towards the greek debt crisis: a contribution to the anthropological study of "alternative" religiosity

Abstract

My PhD thesis focuses on the anthropological study and theorisation of specific political aspects of New Age spirituality, through the ethnographic paradigm of one of the biggest and most popular spiritual centres of Greece: “Harmonious Life”, established by Robert Elias Najemy in 1984. More specifically, my research examines the way in which the belief systems, body techniques and structures of sentiments articulated and cultivated by “Harmonious Life” imply specific political attitudes and copping strategies concerning the Greek economic crisis. In this sense, my study aims at a deeper understanding of New Age spirituality in Greece, traditionally thought as an Eastern Orthodox country, not only at the level of the philosophical discourse on which it is based, but mainly at the level of its socio-political entailments. By systematically analysing the public relevance and politics of New Age spirituality in view of the Greek economic crisis, my dissertation challenges any idealistic o ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/36744
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/36744
ND
36744
Alternative title
Αρμονική κρίση: πνευματικές τεχνικές και πολιτικές στάσεις του πνευματικού κέντρου "Αρμονική Ζωή" απέναντι στην ελληνική οικονομική κρίση: συμβολή στην ανθρωπολογική μελέτη της "εναλλακτικής" θρησκευτικότητας
Author
Oulis, Dimitrios (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2014
Degree Grantor
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Committee members
Μακρής Γεράσιμος
Γκέφου-Μαδιανού Δήμητρα
Γέρος Παναγιώτης
Οικονόμου Λεωνίδας
Παπαγαρουφάλη Ελένη
Τσιρώνης Χρήστος
Παπαρίζος Αντώνης
Discipline
Social SciencesOther Social Sciences
Keywords
Harmonious Life; Alternative religiosity; Spirituality; Robert Najemy; Economic crisis; Spiritual techniques; New Age politics; Politics of spirituality
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
v, 391σ., im., tbls.
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