Modern Spirituality and the Quest for Wholeness: Tai Chi Chih as a Contemporary Expression of the Religious Experience in a ‘Secular’ Age
Theology Theory and Practice March 1, 2026 Elena Narinskaya
This article examines the global phenomenon of mind-body practices like Tai Chi Chih as contemporary expressions of enduring religious impulses in a secular age. Challenging the classical secularization thesis, it argues that modernity has not eliminated religiosity but transformed it, relocating the sacred from institutional settings to embodied, personal experience. Through the theoretical...