New Age spirituality : rethinking religion /
edited by Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus.
- 1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction : "All mixed up" : thinking about religion in relation to New Age spiritualities / Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Part I. Rethinking New Age spiritualities. New Age, world religions and elementary forms / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- "All over the place" : the contribution of New Age to a spatial model of religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Towards a new paradigm of constructing "religion" : New Age data and unbounded categories / Liselotte Frisk -- On transgressing the secular : spiritualities of life, idealism, vitalism / Paul Heelas -- Hiding in plain sight : the organizational forms of "unorganized religion" / Ann Taves and Michael Kinsella -- Part II. Comparing New Age beliefs and practices. Narrow New Age and broad spirituality : a comprehensive schema and a comparative analysis / Norichika Horie -- Dolphins and other humans : New Age identities in comparative perspective / Mikael Rothstein -- New Age, Sami shamanism and indigenous spirituality / Trude Fonneland and Siv Ellen Kraft. The holistic milieu in context : between traditional Christianity and folk religiosity / Dorota Hall -- New Age and the spirit of capitalism : energy as cognitive currency / Lisbeth Mikaelsson -- Part III. Putting new spiritual practices to work. Beyond the spiritual supermarket : the social and public significance of New Age spirituality / Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman -- From New Age to new spiritualities : secular sacralizations on the borders of religion / Frans Jespers -- Cognitively optimal religiosity : New Age as a case study / Olav Hammer -- Theorizing emotions in New Age practices : an analysis of feeling rules in self-religion / Shu-Chuan Chen -- Doing things with angels : agency, alterity and practices of enchantment / Terhi Utriainen -- Conclusion : New Age spiritualities : "good to think" in the study of religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Steven J. Sutcliffe.
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.
9781844657155 (ebook)
New Age movement. Spiritual life--New Age movement.