New Age Religion and Western Culture
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New Age Religion and Western Culture

Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought

  1. 594 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

New Age Religion and Western Culture

Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought

About this book

Presents the first systematic analysis of the structure and beliefs of the New Age movement, and the historical emergence of "New Age" as a secularized version of Western esoteric traditions.

Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the nineteenth century.

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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
1997
Print ISBN
9780791438541
eBook ISBN
9781438405650
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Channeling
  5. Chapter 2: Healing and Personal Growth
  6. Chapter 3: New Age Science
  7. Chapter 4: Neopaganism
  8. Chapter 5: New Age in a Restricted and in a General Sense
  9. Chapter 6: The Nature of Reality
  10. Chapter 7: Meta-Empirical and Human Beings
  11. Chapter 8: Matters of the Mind
  12. Chapter 9: Death and Survival
  13. Chapter 10: Good and Evil
  14. Chapter 11: Visions of the Past
  15. Chapter 12: The New Age
  16. Chapter 13: Towards a Historical Perspective on New Age Religion
  17. Chapter 14: A Historical Framework
  18. Chapter 15: The Mirror of Secular Thought
  19. Chapter 16: Conclusions: The New Age Movement and the Nature of New Age Religion
  20. Appendix
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index of Subjects
  23. Index of Names