Introduction to Spiritual Citizenship
By Stephanie Corigliano
This article is taken from Tarka Journal Vol. 6, ‘On Spiritual Citizenship.
Volume 9, 'On Power,’ will be out in early 2026.
What is spiritual citizenship? In the recent conference “Spiritual Citizenship,” hosted by Embodied Philosophy in the Summer of 2021, one of our opening speakers, Jeong-eun Rhee, began by problematizing the terms, spiritual and citizenship. She referenced a history of orientalist scholarship that identified “Eastern” traditions as primarily “spiritual,” and, therefore less intellectually rigorous than “Western” traditions.
