Mindfulness - enrichment of the modern lifestyle?
Hornborg, Anne-Christine LU
(2025)
In Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
27(2).
p.187-201
- Abstract
- This article addresses healing practices performed under the umbrella of mindfulness in order to problematize how mindfulness is presented as a means to enrich a modern lifestyle. The discussion considers mindfulness in a contemporary Swedish context, presenting a range of healing practices. A fundamental question asked is if they represent a religious or spiritual practice or just a technique? The discussion also addresses the discursive strategies used by different entrepreneurs in promoting mindfulness. A concern is if mindfulness has become an individual-centered practice aimed at creating a neoliberal persona able to cope with stress and feelings of insufficient creativity?
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- author
- Hornborg, Anne-Christine
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Mindfulness, commodification of rituals, spirituality, health, individual-centered rituals
- in
- Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
- volume
- 27
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85189969981
- ISSN
- 1934-9645
- DOI
- 10.1080/19349637.2024.2337399
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 7ebcbe1f-7de3-4a7d-b8ae-f584af9bd3e7
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- 2024-04-08 13:39:32
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