The New Age in Glastonbury: The Construction of Religious Movements
Prince, Ruth, Riches‡, David
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Description for The New Age in Glastonbury: The Construction of Religious Movements
Hardcover. 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. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; HRQC; JHM; VX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571819932
SKU
V9781571819932
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Ref
99-15
About Prince, Ruth, Riches‡, David
Ruth Prince is currently working as an independent researcher in the United States.
Reviews for The New Age in Glastonbury: The Construction of Religious Movements
"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