Spirituality on the way to globalisation https://www.mpg.de/6289438/spirituality_globalisation
The massive success of ancient spiritual teachings such as yoga, tai chi, qi gong and feng shui indicates that spirituality is not what it once was according to anthropologist Peter van der Veer from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Examining the significance of the spiritual and its transformation processes in modern societies using the example of China and India, van der Veer found that the spiritual and secular arose at the same time in the 19th century as two related alternatives to institutionalised religion in the Euro-American modern age and discovered no mention of Hinduism, Taoism or Confucianism in Asia prior to the encounter with Western imperialism.
example of this, van der Veer cites the leader of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma