ABSTRACT
By focusing on contemporary well-being practices, this chapter proposes that the concept of destiny has its place in modern life along with individual choice. A sense of destiny can be found, for instance, in the engagements with post-secular practices where people turn toward something not quite empirical in order to gain identity and agency. The chapter focuses on contemporary religious/spiritual well-being and healing practices such as yoga, angel therapy, and faith-healing as concrete cases, examples, and figurations of the post-secular. The notion of destiny is something that connects religious/spiritual identity and agency with its structural and cultural conditions and opens it up to a future orientation. The post-secular includes both religious and nonreligious revitalization. However, many scholars subscribing to the notion of a post-secular society have critiqued the idea of a privatization of religion and found evidence of a contrary development.
