Spiritual Elasticity and Crisis: From Non-Religiosity to Transreligiosity—An Introduction

This paper is an analysis of the principal themes on which our Special Issue and its articles are based. We explain in more depth the significant relationship between spiritual elasticity and crisis, taking into consideration the diversity of contemporary religiosity and its flexible contextualization that ranges from non-religiosity to transreligiosity. In-between, there lies a wide spectrum of practices, attitudes, beliefs, performances and identities, which is creative, frequently transformative, in some cases rigid, in other contexts distinctly elastic. It is this field of religion and spirituality that we aim to explore; consequently, we offer paradigms of different types of elasticity and clarify the above-mentioned spectrum better.