In Search of New Age Spiritualities (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies) - Softcover

Possamai, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138275670 ISBN 13: 9781138275676

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology of religion which have shed light on religion in modernity. New Agers cannot be located easily in the secularisation narrative; they move through fluid networks rather than settled collectivities; they assemble personal syncretisms of belief, myth and practice rather than subscribe to codified doctrines and prescribed rituals. New Age is quickly found to be a label that is unacceptable to many of those designated as New Agers. This book advances our understanding of the so-called New Age phenomenon by analysing accounts of insiders' religious experience and orientations. This approach is brought to bear not only on the study of written documents relating to New Age and its putative antecedents, but on the analysis of in-depth interviews with thirty-five spiritual actors.

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Dr Adam Possamai is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138275670
• ISBN 13: 9781138275676
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 170
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