Beyond New Age: Exploring Alternative Spirituality

Steven Sutcliffe; Marion Bowman

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2000

Beyond New Age

Exploring Alternative Spirituality

Steven Sutcliffe and Marion Bowman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474497015

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About this book

This book offers the first serious exploration of the many different aspects of alternative spirituality. While there is much talk of 'spirituality' now, no other collection has specifically addressed its many 'alternative' -non-ecclesiastical in the broadest sense - manifestations. The authors aim to open up a relatively unexplored and often quite hidden dimension of religion in the modern world through non-confessional, critical study. They establish both the vibrancy of contemporary experiments in alternative spirituality, as well as its historical pedigree. The broad range of subject matter includes magical ritual, independent seekers and gurus, the Theosophical movement, C. G. Jung, turn-of-the-century artistic and spiritual colonies, Iona and Glastonbury, alternative healing, and the influence of secular and humanistic thought. Readers of this fascinating book will gain an overall sense of the sociological, anthropological, historical and ethnographical perspectives on the study of religion and the many alternative forms of spirituality.

Key Features

International names contributing to this subject area
Increasingly important subject in courses in Religious Studies and Sociology
Wide range of voices in contributions

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: People
1 'Wandering stars': seekers and gurus in the modern world Steven Sutcliffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 Madame Blavatsky's Children: Theosophy and its heirs Kevin Tingay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 New Centres of Life Martin Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Jung's Psychologising of Religion Robert A. Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Part 2: Places
5 More of the Same? Christianity, vernacular religion and alternative spirituality in Glastonbury Marion Bowman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6 Iona and Healing: a discourse analysis W. Graham Monteith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7 Alternative Spirituality in Europe: Amsterdam Michael York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part 3: Practices
8 Gender and power in magical practices Susan Greenwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
9 Boggarts and books: towards an appreciation of pagan spirituality Graham Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
10 Holism, healing and the new age Ellie Hedges and James A. Beckford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
11 An analysis of the festival for mind-body-spirit, London Malcolm Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
12 Personal development: the spiritualisation and secularisation of the human potential movement Elizabeth Puttick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
13 The new age and secularisation Steve Bruce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
14 Expressive spirituality and humanistic expressivism: sources of significance beyond church and chapel Paul Heelas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Religious Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474497015