Les créatifs culturels : regard sur un nouveau profil de chercheur spirituel à l’ère de l’ultramodernité
This work revolves around the non-religious spirituality of cultural creatives and its influence in the emergence of a transmodern society, that is, humanely and ecologically sustainable. In the 1980s Western societies entered the axial turn of ultramodernity, entry caused by the global awareness of the environmental emergency caused by human activities (era of the Anthropocene). Cultural creatives who hold postmaterialist values and seem to represent according to sociologists Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson one third of Western population, are driven by an ethical and responsible vision of how we inhabit the Earth. While spirituality and personal improvement are central in their approach, I will present a portrait of this group as an ideal-type of today's spirituality, characterized by an ecosophical consciousness, which aims first at “changing oneself” to then "change the world", in an ethical, social and political project. This portrait would indeed distinguish itself fundamentally from the spiritual researcher "consumer" of beliefs. Based on a rich conceptual framework and a qualitative survey of 19 French-speaking cultural creatives, this research seeks to broaden knowledge about non-religious spirituality but also "reclaim" beliefs behind an alternative discourse that is likely to be important in our Western societies.
Secular spirituality Cultural creatives Ultramodernity Ecosophy Unicity Anthropocene