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New Age and Neopagan Religions in America
Sarah M. Pike
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Description for New Age and Neopagan Religions in America
Paperback. Investigates the varieties of New Age and Neopagan religions in the US from their origins in the nineteenth century to their reemergence in the 1960s counterculture. This book considers the differences and similarities between the New Age and Neopagan movements and observes the antagonistic relationship between these two practices in America. Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
From Shirley MacLaine's spiritual biography Out on a Limb to the teenage witches in the film The Craft, New Age and Neopagan beliefs have made sensationalistic headlines. In the mid- to late 1990s, several important scholarly studies of the New Age and Neopagan movements were published, attesting to academic as well as popular recognition that these religions are a significant presence on the contemporary North American religious landscape. Self-help books by New Age channelers and psychics are a large and growing market; annual spending on channeling, self-help businesses, and alternative health care is at $10 to $14 billion; an estimated ... Read more
From Shirley MacLaine's spiritual biography Out on a Limb to the teenage witches in the film The Craft, New Age and Neopagan beliefs have made sensationalistic headlines. In the mid- to late 1990s, several important scholarly studies of the New Age and Neopagan movements were published, attesting to academic as well as popular recognition that these religions are a significant presence on the contemporary North American religious landscape. Self-help books by New Age channelers and psychics are a large and growing market; annual spending on channeling, self-help businesses, and alternative health care is at $10 to $14 billion; an estimated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231124034
SKU
V9780231124034
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About Sarah M. Pike
Sarah M. Pike is associate professor of religious studies at California State University in Chico.
Reviews for New Age and Neopagan Religions in America
This work offers general readers a scholarly assessment of Neopaganism and the New Age movement... Pike provides an overview of key themes of these movements and traces their beliefs back to 19th-century traditions of mesmerism, seances, Swedenborgianism, and Theosophy... her book provides a necessary complement to Margot Adler'sDrawing Down the Moon and Paul Heelas'sThe New Age Movement. Library Journal A ... Read more