New Age Religion and Western Culture : : esotericism in the mirror of secular thought / / Wouter J. Hanegraaff
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 orie...
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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 72 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Numen Book Series
72. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 580 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Channeling
- Healing and Personal Growth
- New Age Science
- Neopaganism
- New Age in a Restricted and in a General Sense
- The Nature of Reality
- Meta-Empirical and Human Beings
- Matters of the Mind
- Death and Survival
- Good and Evil
- Visions of the Past
- The New Age
- Towards a Historical Perspective on New Age Religion
- A Historical Framework
- The Mirror of Secular Thought
- Conclusions: The New Age Movement and the Nature of New Age religion
- Primary New Age Sources (in alphabetical order)
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names
- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.