New Age Spirituality
eBook - ePub

New Age Spirituality

Rethinking Religion

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

New Age Spirituality

Rethinking Religion

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access New Age Spirituality by Steven J. Sutcliffe,Ingvild Saelid Gilhus in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Religion. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781844657131
eBook ISBN
9781317546238
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction: “All mixed up” – thinking about religion in relation to New Age spiritualities
  7. Part I: Rethinking New Age spiritualities
  8. Part II: Comparing New Age beliefs and practices
  9. Part III: Putting new spiritual practices to work
  10. Conclusion: New Age spiritualities – “good to think” in the study of religion
  11. Contributors
  12. Further reading
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index