New Age Spirituality
New Age Spirituality
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Summary
New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. "New Age Spirituality" examines these movements as a form of everyday or lived religion and repositions new age spirituality at the forefront of the contemporary study of religion.
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New Age Spirituality by Steven J Sutcliffe
New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movements a very challenging field to understand using traditional models of religious analysis. Rather than treating new age as an exotic specimen on the margins of 'proper' religion, "New Age Spirituality" examines these movements as a form of everyday or lived religion. The book brings together an international range of scholars to explore the key issues: insight, healing, divination, meditation, gnosis, extraordinary experiences, and interactions with gods, spirits and superhuman powers. Combining discussion of contemporary beliefs and practices with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, the book repositions new age spirituality at the forefront of the contemporary study of religion.
"The book moves the study of new age from the margins of the comparative study of religionIt resists the claim that religion must be institutional, yet similarly resists the idea that diffuse and individualistic phenomena, like new age, lack social and historical dimensions. New age - examined methodologically and discovered in rich empirical data - is revealed as religion, not fringe but central." - Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney "Acumen Publishing continues to lead the way in the academic study of the overlapping fields of paganism, occultism, and New Age with this new collection - By treating New Age as 'core' or 'elementary' religion and by linking contemporary studies of New Age to classic literature on religion, the book has the potential to open new avenues of analysis and critique in anthropology." - Anthropology Review Database
Steven J. Sutcliffe is Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Ingvild Sælid Gilhus is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844657131 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844657132 |
| Title | New Age Spirituality |
| Author | Steven J Sutcliffe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |