The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition

Herrick, James A.

ISBN 10: 0830832793 / ISBN 13: 9780830832798

Verlag: IVP, 2004

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition
• Verlag: IVP
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0830832793
• ISBN-13: 9780830832798
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

James A. Herrick offers an intellectual history of the New Religious Synthesis, examining the challenges it poses to Judeo-Christian tradition, demonstrating its sources and manifestations in contemporary culture, and questioning its acceptance in church and society. A massive shift in Western religious attitudes has taken place almost without our noticing it. The Judeo-Christian tradition of Western culture has slowly but steadily been eclipsed by a new way of viewing spirituality. This shift has been in the making for some three hundred years. James A. Herrick tells the story of how the old view has been dismantled and a new one created not primarily through academic or institutional channels but by means of popular religious media--books, speeches, magazines and pamphlets, as well as movies, plays, music, radio interviews, television programs and websites. Interest in spirituality increases while participation in institutional religion wanes. Many welcome this evolution of religion. However, few are familiar with its roots, and fewer still have critically examined its prospects. As we stand at a spiritual crossroad, Herrick questions whether we are wise to discard the Western religious tradition and adopt the new spirituality.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James A. Herrick is Guy VanderJagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and is the author of The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists (University of South Carolina Press).