New age in Latin America : popular variations and ethnic appropriations /
This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the...
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Format: eBook
Language:
English
Spanish
Published:
Boston :
Brill,
2016.
Series:
Religion in the Americas
16.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.
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Call Number: BP605.N48
| Summary: | This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the tradition of popular Catholicism. The Syncretic character of the two sensibilities makes both the New Age and popular religion behave like two, syncretizing and syncreticizable matrices of meaning. This book opens up a rich vein of debate with new dilemmas and discussions, that will provide a framework for a new field of study in anthropology. What new ways of signifying living and experiencing religion is the New Age generating in Latin America? What are its limits? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004316485 |
| ISSN: | 1542-1279 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |