New Age Religion and Western Culture, Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought.

New Age Religion and Western Culture, Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought.

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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Main Author: Wouter J. Hanegraaff

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1996.

Series: Numen Book Series 72.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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New Age movement.
Occultism.
Supernatural.

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Call Number: BP605.N48 H36 1996

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505 0 0 |a 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. 
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