Salon
Oct 31, 2017 - 10 min
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Everyone is on a quest for spiritual originality. No matter your beliefs, a dominant theme unifying all forms of spirituality is an overwhelming desire for it to be authentic - a demand which can lead to feelings of anxiety because it promises so much and yet rarely seems to deliver. From Orthodox Judaism to the CrossFit cult, Emily G. Wenneborg looks into our spiritual traditions and the institutions that sustain them to dissect what it means to be authentic.