Abstract:
The notion of spirituality and religion is not a new phenomena and its historical
trajectory could be traced back to the advent of the civilization when people tried to
understand cosmology and ontology of humankind. Therefore, spirituality and religion
has been a vital epidemiological apparatus in interpreting the world around us backed
by its values and belief system. The genealogy of religion and spirituality prove
that it took different routs of its existence. It was sometime emancipatory, sometime
hegemonic and political and as a result the notion of religion was subjected to a severe
criticism especially from modernist thinking for its hegemonic and political stance
and also for fundamental epistemological assumptions of mystification. This paper
intends to construct an conceptual and historical account of spirituality and religion
with a review of existing literature and to inquire how the notion of spirituality was
entangled and stride with contemporary organizations and society as a dynamic and
dominant apparatus of knowledge, discipline and control.
