there's a word for who I am.....

I define progressive spirituality as a particular form of religious ideology that has been refined over the past thirty or so years by a range of 'organic intellectuals' within the progressive milieu of western religion. It has emerged out of four key concerns:

• a desire for a spirituality that is appropriate for modern, liberal societies,
  
• the rejection of patriarchal forms of religion and the search for religious forms that are authentic and liberating for women
  
• the move to re-sacralize science - particularly quantum physics and cosmology
• the search for a nature-based spirituality to address the ecological catastrophe.

The New Spirituality by Gordon Lynch