New Age Religion and Western Culture
Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
Series: Studies in the History of Religions;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 11 September 2001
- ISBN 9789004106963
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages582 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1033 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the belief structure and historical background of the New Age Movement. "New Age Religion" emerges as a thoroughly secularized form of western-esoteric traditions which can be traced back to the period of the Renaissance.
MoreLong description:
Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations.
This fascinating work presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement.
Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century.
This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.
'This is a formidable book?It is an indispensable manual for all those studying the New Age phenomenon?an interesting, informative, illuminating and accurate depiction of New Age thought and practices.'
John A. Saliba, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2000.
'This is a must for all students of religion...'
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Ambrix, 2002.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Orientation: Major Trends in New Age Religion.
Preliminary Demarcation of the Field
- Channeling
- Healing and Personal Growth
- New Age Science
- Neopaganism
- New Age in a Restricted and in a General Sense.
Part 2: Exposition: The Varieties of New Age Experience.
The Nature of Reality
- Meta
-Empirical and Human Beings
- Matters of the Mind
- Death and Survival
- Good and Evil
- Visions of the Past
- The New Age.
Part 3: Interpretation: New Age Religion and Traditional Esotericism.
Towards a Historical Perspective on New Age Religion
- A Historical Framework
- The Mirror of Secular Thought
- Conclusions: The New Age Movement and the Nature of New Age Religion.
