Beyond New Age : exploring alternative spirituality / edited by Steven Sutcliffe and Marion Bowman.
- Title
- Beyond New Age : exploring alternative spirituality / edited by Steven Sutcliffe and Marion Bowman.
- Published by
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2000.
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- Description
- vi, 266 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Beyond New Age is a study of alternative religions. It addresses the history, growth, content, context and significance of such phenomena.
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. People. "Wandering stars": seekers and gurus in the modern world / Steven Sutcliffe. -- Madame Blavatsky's children: theosophy and its heirs / Kevin Tingay. -- New centres of life /Martin Green. -- Jung's psychologising of religion / Robert A. Segal. -- 2. Places.More of the same? Christianity, vernacular religion and alternative spirituality in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman. -- Iona and healing: a discourse analysis / W. Graham Monteith. -- Alternative spirituality in Europe: Amsterdam, Aups and Bath / Michael York. -- 3. Practices. Gender and power in magical practices / Susan Greenwood. -- Boggarts and books: towards an appreciation of pagan spirituality / Graham Harvey. -- Holism, healing and the new age / Ellie Hedges and James A. Beckford. -- An analysis of the festival for mind-body-spirit, London / Malcolm Hamilton. -- Personal development: the spiritualisation and secularisation of the human potential movement / Elizabeth Puttick. -- The new age and secularisation / Steve Bruce. -- Expressive spirituality and humanistic expressivism: sources of significance beyond church and chapel / Paul Heelas.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain