The New Age in Glastonbury : the construction of religious movements /

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 ap...

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Tác giả chính: Prince, Ruth
Tác giả khác: Riches, David
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : Berghahn Books 2000.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv287sdns
Mục lục:
  • Part 1
  • The argument
  • Representations and creations
  • Key concepts
  • Part 2
  • Glastonbury: the surface appearance
  • The Glastonbury scene
  • The imagined community
  • Health: the holistic person
  • Relationships: communitas or counter-culture?
  • Work: the spiritual task
  • Education: the reincarnated child
  • Cosmology and charisma
  • Part 3
  • The construction of a social world
  • Towards a framework
  • Foundation, vision and representation: levels of new age culture
  • Transformation in space-time
  • Local, not global.