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1 online resource (595 pages) |
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SUNY series, Western esoteric traditions |
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SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; Introduction; Methodology; A Preliminary Demarcation of the Field; Part One: ORIENTATION: MAJOR TRENDS IN NEW AGE RELIGION; CHAPTER ONE. Channeling; A Brief Characteristic; Channeling as Articulated Revelations; Channeling Modes and Developmental Processes; The Sources (Edgar Cayce; Eva Pierrakos; Jane Roberts; A Course in Miracles; David Spangler; Ramala; JZ Knight; Sanaya Roman; Shirley MacLaine); CHAPTER TWO. Healing and Personal Growth; The Alternative Therapies; Healing as a Religious Phenomenon; Main Currents; The Sources (Eva Pierrakos; Ken Keyes |
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Leonard Orr & Sondra Ray Shakti Gawain; Sanaya Roman; Henry Reed/Edgar Cayce; Jean Houston; Stanislav Grof; Ken Wilber; Michael Harner; Roger Walsh; Louise L. Hay; Chris Griscom; Shirley MacLaine; Fritjof Capra); CHAPTER THREE. New Age Science; The Quest for a Unified Worldview; New Age Science as Naturphilosophie; Main Orientations; The Sources (David Bohm; F. David Peat; Michael Talbot; Ilya Prigogine; Erich Jantsch; Rupert Sheldrake; Fritjof Capra; Ken Wilber; Arthur M. Young); CHAPTER FOUR. Neopaganism; The Phenomenon of Neopaganism; Neopaganism as Magic |
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Main OrientationsThe Sources (Janet & Stewart Farrar; Vivianne Crowley; Starhawk; Zsuzsanna Budapest; Marian Green; Caitlín & John Matthews; Murry Hope); CHAPTER FIVE. New Age in a Restricted and in a General Sense; Introduction; An Historical Sketch; New Age sensu stricto: The Millenarian Vision; New Age sensu lato; The Sources (David Spangler; George Trevelyan; Gary Zukav; Marilyn Ferguson; Fritjof Capra; Peter Russell; Willis Harman; Shirley MacLaine; Matthew Fox); Part Two: EXPOSITION: THE VARIETIES OF NEW AGE EXPERIENCE; CHAPTER SIX. The Nature of Reality |
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1. Introduction: Attitudes to Experiential Reality2. The Meanings of Holism; 3. The Evolutionary Perspective; 4. Some Additional Issues; CHAPTER SEVEN. Meta-Empirical and Human Beings; 1. Introduction; 2. Divine Beings; 3. Intermediate Beings; CHAPTER EIGHT. Matters of the Mind; 1. Introduction; 2. Human Beings; 3. The Metaphysics of Mind; CHAPTER NINE. Death and Survival; 1. Introduction: The Experience of Death; 2. Other Realities; 3. Reincarnation and Beyond; CHAPTER TEN. Good and Evil; 1. Introduction: The Paradox of Ethical Holism; 2. The Structure of Cosmic Justice; 3. The Negative |
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4. The PositiveCHAPTER ELEVEN. Visions of the Past; 1. Introduction; 2. Beginnings; 3. From Atlantis to the Holy Land; 4. The Age of Pisces; 5. Historical Religions versus Universal Spirituality; CHAPTER TWELVE. The New Age; 1. Introduction; 2. The Age of Aquarius; 3. The Shift from Old to New; 4. Epilogue: Controversies over the New Age Sensu Lato; Part Three: INTERPRETATION: NEW AGE RELIGION AND TRADITIONAL ESOTERICISM; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Towards a Historical Perspective on New Age Religion; 1. A Short Evaluation; 2. Perspectives on the New Age; 3. Desiderata for Academic Research |
| Summary |
Analyzing contemporary New Age beliefs, this work argues that the foundations of such beliefs lie in the Western esoteric traditions of the Renaissance. The modern New Age movement is seen as having emerged from the secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century. the author makes extensive use of primary sources, and uses a thematic approach to the subject, from the perspective of the study of religions |
| Notes |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. A Historical Framework |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-558) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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New Age movement.
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Occultism.
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Occultism
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New Age movement
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Occultism
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Okkultismus
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New Age
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New Age.
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Esoterisme.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047400127 |
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9047400127 |
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9786610463978 |
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6610463972 |
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