In this article I delineate the cultural structure underlying much (if not most) of what goes by “spirituality” in the popular discourse of twenty-first century liberal democracies—which I call the religion of the heart. I begin by reviewing the disparate academic literatures relating to the shift from “religion” to “spirituality,” explicating why the study of spirituality remains both marginalized within the sociology of religion and deeply fragmented. I then lay out the theoretical foundations of a cultural sociological approach to the study of religion, which I use to synthesize the existing sociological and historical literature on “spirituality.” I supplement this synthesis with data from my own empirical research in order to offer a systematic representation of the religion of the heart’s ten core tenets and how they relate to one another. I then conclude with a reflection on the implications my analysis holds for the sociology of contemporary religion.

在这篇文章中，我描述了 21 世纪自由民主国家的流行话语中大部分（如果不是大多数）“灵性”的文化结构——我称之为心灵的宗教. 我首先回顾了与从“宗教”到“灵性”转变有关的不同学术文献，解释了为什么对灵性的研究在宗教社会学中仍然处于边缘化状态并且非常分散。然后，我阐述了宗教研究的文化社会学方法的理论基础，我用它来综合现有的关于“灵性”的社会学和历史文献。我用我自己的实证研究中的数据补充了这一综合，以便系统地展示心灵的十个核心信条的宗教以及它们如何相互关联。最后，我反思一下我的分析对当代宗教社会学的影响。