Steven J. Sutcliffe, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

New Age Spirituality (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Religion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317546245
• Artikelnr.: 41506280

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'All mixed up': thinking about religion in relation to new
age spiritualities, Ingvild Salid Gilhus and Steven J. Sutcliffe; PART I:
RETHINKING NEW AGE SPIRITUALITIES 1. New Age, World Religions and
Elementary Forms, Steven J. Sutcliffe; 2. 'All over the place': The
Contribution of New Age to a Spatial Model of Religion, Ingvild Salid
Gilhus; 3. Towards a New Paradigm of Constructing 'Religion': New Age Data
and Unbounded Categories, Liselotte Frisk; 4. On Transgressing the Secular:
Spiritualities of life, Idealism, Vitalism, Paul Heelas; 5. Hiding in Plain
Sight: The Organizational Forms of 'Unorganized Religion', Ann Taves and
Michael Kinsella; PART II: COMPARING NEW AGE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES 6.
Narrow New Age and Broad Spirituality: A Comprehensive Schema and a
Comparative Analysis, Norichika Horie; 7. Dolphins and other Humans: New
Age identities in Comparative Perspective, Mikael Rothstein; 8. New Age,
Sami Shamanism and Indigenous Spirituality, Trude Fonneland and Siv Ellen
Kraft; 9.