Jaime Kucinskas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on spirituality, social change, and inequality.
This surprising, if ambiguous, success story will be of interest to students of religion, social movements, and social change, as well as change agents themselves, who will each benefit from the insight and balanced perspective that Kucinskas provides. -- Ruth Braunstein, University of Connecticut, American Journal of Sociology The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out is an excellent book...It will attract readers from diferent theoretical and empirical perspectives who are interested in religion and spirituality, such as Eastern religions, spirituality, cultural difusion, and religious (and spiritual) movements. While it would be an excellent reader for graduate-level seminars on these topics, The Mindful Elite is also highly accessible. Selected chapters would be appropriate for undergraduate students who are interested in contemporary religious issues. -- Di Di, Santa Clara University, Review of Religious Research The Mindful Elite is an excellent work, a central text for the study of contemporary spirituality. -- Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University, Sociology of Religion