Perfectly Present: Mindfulness Curriculum as Implicit Religion. (1st March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hale, Mary
• Is Part Of: Implicit religion. Volume 20:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 335
• Page End: 365
• Publication Date: 2018-03-01
• Subjects: implicit religion -- mindfulness -- religion and education -- edward bailey -- charles taylor -- secularization; Implicit religion -- Periodicals; 211.6
• DOI: 10.1558/imre.32759
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1463-9955

Abstract

Abstract : Mindfulness has become increasingly popular in western education: both as a pedagogical term and as a curriculum tool. Although promoters, with varying degrees of emphasis, claim that mindfulness in this context is non-religious, this paper challenges those assertions. Using Charles Taylor's arguments regarding belief and unbelief and his conception of fullness and Edward Bailey's conception of implicit religion, I contend that mindfulness as curriculum or as curriculum enrichment is a form of implicit religion.