SPIRITUALITY, ORGANIZATION AND SOCIETY

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.