Author: James R. Lewis Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438410751 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
This book begins with a comprehensive historical section that places the New Age within the context of its predecessor movements. It then focuses on specialized aspects of this subculture, from essays on the convergence of New Age spirituality with women's spirituality, to an essay on how Evangelical Christians have responded to the movement. The book also examines the international impact of the New Age.
Author: Daren Kemp Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004153551 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 495
Book Description
The "Handbook of New Age" is a comprehensive survey of alternative spiritualities: their history, their global impact, their cultural influence and how they are understood by scholars. Chapters by many of the leading scholars of the movement give the latest analysis of contemporary spiritual trends, and present up-to-date observations of the interaction between the New Age movement and many different fields of knowledge and research.
Author: Nevill Drury Publisher: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 9780500285169 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 223
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The full story of the New Age movement told for the first time - its origins and precursors, its flowering within the counterculture of the 1960s and its development into an international spiritual perspective. Author is Australia, his degree was from Macquarie University NSW.
Author: Ron Rhodes Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310535018 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
Reincarnation, auras, and energizing crystals -- surely these are the stuff of fairy tales, nothing more. People don’t really speak to ancient Egyptian holy men, or listen seriously to Shirley MacLaine, for that matter -- do they? Drawing from a range of occult, pagan, and pseudo-scientific traditions, the New Age Movement is broad, diffuse, hard to nail down -- and insidiously dangerous. Its belief in the "divinity of humanity," its emphasis on "self-actualization," and its looking forward to a coming utopian "new world" have tremendous appeal. But does it have the truth?
Author: Wouter J. Hanegraaff Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004378936 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 598
Book 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.
Author: Russell Chandler Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company ISBN: 9780310385615 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
The New Age movement, made up of Eastern mysticism and Western affluence, now touches virtually every area of our lives: business, education, psychology, science, health, politics, and religion. Chandler explores the many aspects of the New Age--channelers, UFO contacts, paranormal activities, influential people who promote New Age ideas, and more--in this intriguing book and discussion guide.
Author: J. Yutaka Amano Publisher: ISBN: 9780842316064 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
Many Christians say it is, but others aren't sure what the movement is all about. Before we pass judgment, we need reliable information about the diverse facets of New Age beliefs and practices. Authors Amano and Geisler provide this. They show that New Age thought indeed influences TV, movies, music, and books. Working from a firm biblical base, they critique the movement itself and also the sometimes misguided Christian responses to it.
Author: J. Gordon Melton Publisher: Visible Ink Press ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
This text considers the New Age phenomena, with its accent on spiritual development, health and healing and higher consciousness. It considers New Age personalities and significant events and provides more than 300 definitions and descriptions and a guide to New Age educational institutions.
Author: Matthew Wood Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131707758X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
This 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.
Author: David K. Clark Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725258331 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
Many books have successfully defended Christianity against Western rational skepticism. 'Apologetics in the New Age' represents the first serious attempt by evangelical philosophers to answer Eastern pantheism in general and the New Age movement in particular. Teaming up with David Clark, Norman Geisler, one of evangelicalism's leading apologists, probes the pantheistic worldview and its relationship to the New Age movement. Pantheism, the authors write, constitutes the soil in which the movement grows. The notion that every person participates in the divine has found fertile expression in contemporary American culture. The American consciousness of the Eastern alternative has risen rapidly in the last few decades, the authors remind us. Christian apologists have been caught unaware.... For this reason, we believe that Christian apologists must turn their attention in a new direction by developing new arguments for this New Age.
Author: James R. Lewis
Author: Daren Kemp
Author: Nevill Drury
Author: Ron Rhodes
Author: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Author: Russell Chandler
Author: J. Yutaka Amano
Author: J. Gordon Melton
Author: Matthew Wood
Author: David K. Clark