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The New Age Movement
Religion, Culture and Society in the Age of Postmodernity
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of Sociology of Religion, theology, cultural studies, and modern spirituality. Clergy, New Age activists, and those interested in cultural and oppositional movements will also find it a valuable resource.
Represents one of the responses to the defects and potentialities of modern times. This book traces the growth and development of the Movement, identifies some of its key characteristics, and provides a critical perspective. It provides a treatment of New Age 'celebration of the self', and situates it within the cultural context.
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In his ground-breaking work, Paul Heelas traces the growth and development of the New Age Movement, identifies some of its key characteristics, and provides a critical perspective. This unique and extensively documented volume provides a balanced treatment of New Age celebration of the self, and situates it within the broader cultural context for the first time.
It shows how the New Age is ambivalently related to modernity, offering both a radical spiritual alternative to the mainstream and a celebration of some of the characteristic features of modern life. Heelas thus views the New Age both as an alternative counter-cultural movement and as a spirituality of our times.
The volume, with its clarity of form and its critique of conventional opinion, serves as an excellent starting point and mature contribution to the study of contemporary spirituality. This will be a core text for courses on the Sociology of Religion, and should be of enormous interest to all those concerned with the study of culture and the utopian anthropologists of modernity, historians of oppositional movements, theology students, clergy, and New Age activists alike.
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"Drawing on a vast and rich body of sources, Dr Heelas has produced a remarkably comprehensive picture of the multi-faceted contemporary New Age movement," praises Dr B R Wilson, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford. Don Cupitt of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, calls it "a pioneering book, and a remarkable feat of sympathetic interpretation" that will transform perceptions of the New Age. The scholarship is both deeply researched and accessible, making it essential reading for understanding modern fringe religious scenes.
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ISBN: 9780631193326
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 September 1996
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 445g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Paul Heelas is Director of the Centre for Study of Cultural Values and Reader in Religion and Modernity in the Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.
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