TY  - GEN
T1  - The New Age in Glastonbury : the construction of religious movements
A1  - Prince, Ruth
A2  - Riches, David
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1245642207
AB  - The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimentation with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad applicability. Based around contradictions relating to such central anthropological concepts as communitas, egalitarianism, individualism, holism, and autonomy, it reveals the processes by which, having abandoned a mainstream lifestyle, people come to build up a counter-cultural way of life. Drawing on their own work on tribal shamanistic religions, the authors are able to point out interesting similarities between the latter and the Glastonbury New Age movement. Not only that: their model allows them to explain such wide-ranging social and religious movements as the Hutterites, the Kibbutz, and Green communes. In fact, the authors argue, these movements may be regarded as variations of the Glastonbury type. -- from back cover.
OP  - 312
CN  - BP605.N48 P755 2000
SN  - 9781800733947
SN  - 1800733941
SN  - 1571819332
SN  - 1571817921 (pb.)
SN  - 9781571817921
SN  - 1571819932
SN  - 9781571819932
SN  - 1571817921
KW  - New Age movement.
KW  - Glastonbury (England) : Religion.
KW  - England : Religion.
KW  - Nouvel Âge (Mouvement)
KW  - Angleterre : Religion.
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - New Age movement
KW  - Religion
KW  - England
KW  - England : Glastonbury
ER  -