Seekership and Habitus
Justine Chmin
Created on October 22, 2024
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Transformation in Spiritual Quests
Habitus and Seekership:
"Seekership revisited"
Sociological aspect?
Symbolic Capital
Exploration
Spiritual agency?
Role in modern religion
1. Habitus and Spiritual quest 2. Symbolic Capital 3. Reading mythopoetic groups under the prism of seekership/habitus relationship
What is the extent of the relationship between Habitus and seekership?
An evolving habitus? → Seekership and spiritual milieu as "co-constitutive"
Religious Habitus (Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu, p.303):
"a wider cultural phenomenon closelybound up with choice and consumption." (Sutcliffe 2017, p.39)
"Put otherwise, the religious habitus is “that fundamental dimension of the individual as a social being in the religious eld that is at one and the same time the ‘matrix of perception’ of religious symbols, teachings, and practices, and the seat and generator of dispositions toward them” (Rey 2007: 155; Rey 2004)."
Importance of seekers' habitus → secularisation, diversity
L'Habitus and spiritual quest
- Transposability of the habitus → accumulation of symbolic capital - Construction of legitimacy and power through new sets of practice - engaging in new rituals and practices: what role for the body?
Seekers and Symbolic Capital
Mythopoetic groups and "habitus of seekership" (Sutcliffe 2017. p.41) Are they trying to move beyond their habitus by their own spiritual "bricolage"? (new symbolic capital?) Are they really able to do that?
MROP Scotland 2021, The Male Journey.
- To what extent can seekership be understood as "resisting" traditional social structures? - In what way do you think the accumulation of symbolic capital through seekership might reinforce or challenge existing social structure?
"Social agents are the product of history, of the history of the whole social field and of the accumulated experience of the positions they occupy within this field, and they tend to reproduce in their practices the objective structures of the social field."(Masculine Domination, Pierre Bourdieu, page 105, Polity Press, 2001)
- 1972: Campbell's model of "seekership" - spiritual quest (unsatisfaction) - historicisation of the phenomenon "a modern phenomenon linked to expanded awareness of cultural and religious pluralism accompanied by a reflexive and reforming consciousness of 'self'" (Sutcliffe 2017, p. 34)
What is Seekership?
"Symbolic capital is nothing other than capital, in whatever form, when it is known and recognized, that is, when it is endowed with a specifically symbolic efficacy." (Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, 1998, p. 102)
Symbolic capital
refers to the recognition, prestige, and honor that individuals or groups accumulate within a social field. It derives from the perception and value placed on one's position, actions, or attributes by others, often serving as a form of social legitimacy or authority.
We seek to form future generations of men who will restore the practices of nature, ritual, image, story, and council – building a world that celebrates the beauty of all beings. We are men transforming men through a power greater than ourselves. We are seeking a life changing spirituality.Home page of the Illuman website
We affirm and support men seeking a life-long journey of spiritual consciousness in order to transform themselves, and through these journeys, their relationships, families, workplaces, communities and our environment.Home page of The Male Journey Website
Contemporary men as seekers
"We are all prophets. We are not divine messengers. We do not speak for God. We are not miracle workers or moral judges. Instead, we are … human beings living in extraordinary times. We are what the Hopi are: communities seeking a spiritual purpose to their lives. We are question askers. We are vision seekers. We strive to be common-sense advocates for what will work best to help our people.…Believe in yourself. You are a prophet. You are already making your migration. You have been chosen because you have been born." Found on The Male Journey Facebook Group, published by Peter Fisherpool in December 2023