An EconoTimes perspective

Galen Watts1

FWO / Banting Fellow, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven

FWO / Banting Fellow, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven I am currently an FWO Fellow based at the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven. My research focuses on cultural and institutional change in liberal democracies since the 1960s – with a focus on the spheres of religion, morality, work, and politics. My first book, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, to be published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2022, examines the social and political implications of the shift from "religion" to "spirituality," which has, in recent years, transformed the religious landscape of the West. Since completing this project, I have turned my attention to investigating the changing meanings of “work,” “home,” and “success” among urban university-educated professionals and managers and rural nonuniversity-educated workers in Canada and the U.S.