The Seismic Spiritual Shifts Shaping Digital Campfires — The Digital Campfire Download
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The Seismic Spiritual Shifts Shaping Digital Campfires — The Digital Campfire Download
- This looks less like a process of secularization and more like a paradigmatic shift from an institutional to a personal understanding of spirituality. In a qualitative study of a 100 teenagers in five major cities, Richard Flory and Donald Miller found that millennials are not “the spiritual consumers of their parents’ gener... See more
from How we gather by Casper ter Kuile
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Companies like Crossfit and Soulcycle create a sense of consistent space and ritual that inculcate deep loyalty and community among their participants. Reimagine, an organization that describes itself as “the world’s leading end-of-life events platform,” hosts paid gatherings and festivals related to death and healing. Casper ter Kuille and Angie T
... See morefrom Life After Lifestyle by Toby
The posturing of DTC brands as cults reveals an impasse. People are looking for more meaningful narratives and communities than brands can offer, and companies want to supply this “meaning demand”—but are structurally disincentivized to do so.
from Life After Lifestyle by Toby