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New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion
Steven J. Sutcliffe
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Description for New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRLK; HRQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 612.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Durham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844657131
SKU
V9781844657131
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99-1
About Steven J. Sutcliffe
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.
Reviews for New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion
"The book moves the study of new age from the margins of the comparative study of religion. It 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, ... Read more