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Author: Duncan Sheldon Ferguson
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780664252182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays explores the psychological, sociological, historical, and philosophical aspects of the New Age movement and assesses its strengths and weaknesses
Author: Michael York
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0810868164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe decline of institutionalized religion in the increasingly secularized West has been offset by the contemporary spiritual development understood in the form of emerging New Age movements. This reference presents the potpourri of spiritual and psycho-physical therapeutic practices associated with this affirmation of the individual's spiritual freedom, the expectation of a future golden age, the emphasis on self-development, and the holistic pluralism that sets the dominant pulse for innovative spirituality in the twenty-first century. The A to Z of New Age Movements furnishes profiles and explanations of New Age spokespeople and leaders, of a range of human potential and self-help practices, of countercultural spiritual developments, and of different groups and organizations that identify as New Age. The dictionary consists of over 240 individual entries along with an introduction that describes the historical foundations of the New Age orientation and its relation with contemporary Western paganism. It also presents the sociological dimension of New Age expression, as well as the kinds of criticism with which the New Age identity must contend. There is both a New Age Chronology and a bibliography also included.
Author: John Ankerberg
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780890817117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Ankerberg provides answers to the 30 most frequently asked questions about the New Age Movement.
Author: Lodge, Caroline
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1447326830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociety does something strange to us as we get old. We are no longer seen as valued participants in the world but marginalized as burdens and problems to be solved. We become the other. This book presents a different vision of the future. Drawing on fifty interviews with people aged fifty to ninety, it proves aging is not simply passive decline but a process of learning, joy, political engagement, challenge, and achievement. For example: Mary, 83, has resisted her children's suggestion to downsize and is fostering two teenage boys. Joseph, 68, fights for the rights of small farmers worldwide. Through their voices and the voices of many others, we come to understand both the difficulties and possibilities of aging. Increased longevity has consequences for us all. By challenging our assumptions and stereotypes, this book proves that a society that takes better account of older people is better for everyone.
Author: Cecelia Frances Page
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 1440165858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE FUTURE AGE BEYOND THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT reveals the NEW AGE MOVEMENT over 130 years. Successes and failures are described in different NEW AGE religious groups. This book contains the most important messages you can possibly read on this planet and the most important events on Earth in 75,000 years. Influential leaders in the New Age Movement are Helena Blavatsky, Francia La Due, William Quan Judge, William David Dower, Ph.D., Godfrey Rey King, Rudolph Steiner Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, Aleister Crowley, Dolores Cannon, Wynn Free, David Wilcox, Barbara Hand Clow, Michael Newton, Lyssa Royal and Ashayana Deane, etc. Part One focuses on the New Age Renaissance of 1966 through 1976. In Part Two we have explored the history of the New Age Movement through the 1970s and traced many of its most popular beliefs and practices to very ancient times. In Part Three we gave details about the Future Age Movement from 1987 to 2013.
Author: Catherine Tumber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780847697496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased largely on research in popular journals, self-help manuals, newspaper accounts, and archival collections, American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality demonstrates that the New Age movement first flourished more than a century ago during the Gilded Age under the mantle of 'New Thought'. Tumber pays close attention to the ways in which feminism became grafted, with varying degrees of success, to emergent forms of liberal culture in the late nineteenth century, and questions the value of the new age movement--then and now--to the pursuit of women's rights and democratic renewal. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author: Adams Media
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1440591091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From crystals and herbs to flowers and essential oils, this comprehensive guide shows you how to use a variety of New Age elements to enhance your life. Each page includes information on their attributes, healing properties, and how they can be applied in any situation. With detailed descriptions and an informative glossary, you can quickly discover the New Age element that best serves your purpose, whether it's promoting healing, activating creativity, or bringing about good fortune"--Amazon.com
Author: Margrethe Løøv
Publisher:
Published: 2024-10-02
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1009079301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Element introduces New Age religion. The New Age Movement is a loosely cohesive conglomerate of different spiritual currents with no common founder, leader, institution, dogma, or scripture. Because of its diversity, it may appear amorphous and incoherent at first sight. This Element emphasizes both the unity and diversity of the New Age. It approaches the phenomenon from three main perspectives: 1) the historical development of New Age religion, 2) ideas and practices associated with the New Age, and 3) the social organization of the New Age movement. It thus provides a wide-angle view that sketches out some of the main patterns that emerge from a mosaic of individual currents and actors associated with the New Age. It also highlights some of the differences within the movement by exploring some ideas and practices in depth.
Author: David G. Robertson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-02-25
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1474253210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures-novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce-the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive-it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion.
Author: Matthew Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 131707758X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, alongside comparative studies in America and Europe, Matthew Wood criticises the view that such phenomena represent spirituality in which self-authority is paramount. Instead, he emphasises the role of social authority and the centrality of spirit possession, linking these to participants' class positions and experiences of secularisation. Informed by sociological and anthropological approaches to social power and practice, especially the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, Wood's study explores what he calls the nonformative regions of the religious field, and charts similarities and differences with pagan, spiritualist and Theosophical traditions.
