Religion. Spirituality. Communities of Practice.

What is sacred? Is it captured in stability and security? Or does moving toward exploration and transition describe your experience of the sacred. Stillness or motion? Or is it a community of practice? Both? And? Are their stages to understanding sacredness?

These questions are beautifully explored by Joseph McMann, who begins his article with work accomplished by Robert Wuthnow, Professor of Sociology at Princeton and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion.

The article “employs an extended metaphor of journey or passage, that is, someone goes from one place to another, chooses a route, makes discoveries on the way and arrives at a destination. The journey is the inner journey of a person seeking, looking and finding a new spiritual home. The paper provides a framework or map, to enable one to observe where the journey may be headed. After all, when travellers have a general sense of the countryside, then they are less likely to feel lost.”

Follow this link to view the article in the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue.