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.

Subjects:

New Age movement.
Occultism.
Supernatural.

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Call Number: BP605.N48 H36 1996

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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.