The New Age in Glastonbury by Ruth Prince

The New Age in Glastonbury by Ruth Prince

The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad applicability. Based around contradictions relating to such central anthropological concepts as communitas, egalitarianism, individualism, holism, and autonomy, it reveals the processes by which, having abandoned a mainstream lifestyle, people come to build up a counter-culture way of life. Drawing on their own work on tribal shamanistic religions, the authors are able to point out interesting similarities between the latter and the Glastonbury New Age movement. Not only that: their model allows them to explain such wide-ranging social and religious movements as the Hutterites, the Kibbutz, and Green communes. In fact, the authors argue, these movements may be regarded as variations of the Glastonbury type.

"There is much to be admired in the volume.. the authors do present a provocative analysis that could serve as a spingboard for classroom discussion ... It would be an ideal case study for an undergraduate course on the New Age."  · Religious Studies Review

Ruth Prince is currently working as an independent researcher in the United States.

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ISBN 13	9781571819932
ISBN 10	1571819932
Title	The New Age in Glastonbury
Author	Ruth Prince
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Year published	2001-02-15
Number of pages	312
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