New Age and Neopagan Religions in America

Name: New Age and Neopagan Religions in America
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ISBN: 9780231124027

ISBN-10: 0231124023

ISBN-13: 9780231124027

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sarah Pike

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From Shirley MacLaine's spiritual biography Out on a Limb to the teenage witches in the film The Craft, New Age and Neopagan beliefs have made sensationalistic headlines. In the mid- to late 1990s, several important scholarly studies of the New Age and Neopagan movements were published, attesting to academic as well as popular recognition that these religions are a significant presence on the contemporary North American religious landscape. Self-help books by New Age channelers and psychics are a large and growing market; annual spending on channeling, self-help businesses, and alternative health care is at $10 to $14 billion; an estimated 12 million Americans are involved with New Age…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/7/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction






Ancient Mysteries in Contemporary America



Introduction to the Religious Worlds of Neopagans and New Agers



Early Varieties of Alternative Spirituality in American Religious History



The 1960s Watershed Years






Healing and Techniques of the Self



"All Acts of Love and Pleasure Are My Rituals": Sex, Gender, and the Sacred



The Age of Aquarius


Chronology


Notes


Glossary


Resources for the Study of New Age and Neopagan Religions


Index