Summary:
This essay explores the question of whether spiritual culture exists in America. The author argues that spirituality in America has declined. Religious morals are being compromised and attacked by intellectuals and the media. William Dean's book The American Spiritual Culture and the Invention of Jazz, Foootball and Movies is referenced.
Christopher Elezaj
American Spiritual Culture
Mitchem- 2/15/05
Is there spiritual culture in America? To answer this question, we must first describe spirituality and culture separately, and then fuse them in the end. In the dictionary, it states that spirituality is the "state or quality of being dedicated to God, religion, or spiritual things or values, especially as contrasted with material or temporal ones." Spirituality to me basically is the act of uniting with a higher being, whether it is an understanding or concept which is above all. This perception means that it is above all the people on this earth and even the religion that we might practice. The definition of culture states "a particular society at a particular time and place." The culture we will be involving is the American culture as a whole in the present time......
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