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Author(s): Adam Possamai
ISBN(s): 9780754652137, 1138275670
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 18.44 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138275670 
ISBN 13: 9780754652137
Author: Adam Possamai

The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology of religion which have shed light on religion in modernity. New Agers cannot be located easily in the secularisation narrative; they move through fluid networks rather than settled collectivities; they assemble personal syncretisms of belief, myth and practice rather than subscribe to codified doctrines and prescribed rituals. New Age is quickly found to be a label that is unacceptable to many of those designated as New Agers. This book advances our understanding of the so-called New Age phenomenon by analysing accounts of insiders’ religious experience and orientations. This approach is brought to bear not only on the study of written documents relating to New Age and its putative antecedents, but on the analysis of in-depth interviews with thirty-five spiritual actors.

In Search of New Age Spiritualities 1st Table of contents:

1. A PROFILE OF THE RESPONDENTS: SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS

  • Who are these Spiritual Actors? : The Conflictual Actor

  • How do People become involved in Alternative Spiritualities?: Alternation rather than Conversion

2. A PROFILE OF THE RESPONDENTS: NETWORKING ASPECTS

  • How do they Organise Themselves?: The Networking Capital

  • The Cultic Milieu and the Network Paradigm

  • Well-Being in the Cultic Milieu: An Application of the ‘Cultic Milieu’ Grid

  • The Portrait of the Urban Australian Alternative Spiritual Actor

3. KEEPING NEW AGE AT BAY

  • Etic and Emic Approaches: Categorising ‘New Age’

  • Philosophia Perennis

4. PERENNISM

  • Evidence from the Field

  • Monism

  • The Human Potential Ethic

  • Spiritual Knowledge

  • The Triad

  • For a Sociological Appropriation

5. THE SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGES

  • Marilyn and Spiritual Knowledges

  • Esotericism Unveiled

  • Esotericism Simplified

6. A SOCIOLOGICAL CHART OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

  • The Age of Aquarius as the New Age

  • New Age as the Age of Aquarius: Its Genesis

  • The Critical Mass

  • The Second Coming

7. NEO-PAGANISM AND PRESENTIST PERENNISM

  • Neo-Paganism

  • Neo-Pagan Rituals and Covens

  • Presentist Perennism

8. THREE PERENNIST SPIRITUALITIES

  • The Three Perennist Sub-Types Back Together

  • Modernity/Postmodernity

  • Individual Level

  • The Perennist Trinity

9. PERENNIST RE-ENCHANTMENT: THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION

  • The Space of Perennist Symbolism: Consumerism and Re-enchantment

  • Resistance

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