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The New Age in Glastonbury
Ruth Prince
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Description for The New Age in Glastonbury
Paperback. The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting 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. Num Pages: 312 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; 3JJ; HRQC; VX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting 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-culture way of life. Drawing on their own work on tribal shamanistic religions, the authors are able to point ... Read more
The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting 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-culture way of life. Drawing on their own work on tribal shamanistic religions, the authors are able to point ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571817921
SKU
V9781571817921
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About Ruth Prince
Ruth Prince is currently working as an independent researcher in the United States. David Riches is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Reviews for The New Age in Glastonbury
There is much to be admired in the volume ... the authors do present a provocative analysis that could serve as a spingboard for classroom discussion ... It would be an ideal case study for an undergraduate course on the New Age.
Religious Studies Review
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