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| Preface | |
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| The Commodification of the New Age | |
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| The New Age Ethic and the Spirit of Postmodernity | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Methodology | |
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| The New Age Industry: Consumption, Ideology, and the New Age | |
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| Marx and Ideology | |
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| Popular Culture and Ideology Critique | |
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| The Frankfurt School and the New Age | |
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| The New Age as Ideology | |
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| The Ideology of Harmonic Convergence | |
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| The Mind-Body-Spirit at One with Itself: The Ideology of Holistic Health | |
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| The Health and Wellness Industry: The Corporatization of the "Fringe" | |
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| Is the New Age the New Right? | |
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| New Age as Subversive | |
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| New Age Environmentalism: The New Age as a Micropolitics of Resistance | |
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| Holistic Health and Self-Help Therapy as "Liberatory" The Foucauldian Critique of the Marxist Concept of Liberation | |
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| The Political Economy of New Age Travellers: Living Off Modernity's Excess as an Environmental Ethic | |
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| New Age Travellers in Ireland | |
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| Between the Mountaintop and the Marketplace: New Age Travellers in Ireland | |
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| New Age Environmentalism as a Way of Life | |
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| New Age Travellers in Britain and Ireland: The New Age as Subculture | |
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| New Age Travellers as Refugees from a Post-Thatcher Britain | |
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| The Semiotics of the New Age Traveller | |
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| New Age Travellers: The "Elective Ethnicity" | |
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| The New Age Travellers Body: "Authentic," "Ethnic," and "Grotesque" | |
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| Heteroclite, Heterotopia, Heterocronia: The New Age Traveller Search for the Indeterminate Identity/Space/Time | |
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| New Age Travellers in Ireland: A Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The New Age as a Symptom of Postmodernity | |
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| Unified Subjects, Unified Communities: The Desire for Reconciliation in the Libidinal Economy of the New Age | |
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| The New Age and the Search for Connection | |
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| The New Age and the Desire for Community | |
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| The New Age Desire for Reconciliation with Nature | |
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| The Search for Origins and the Desire for Wholeness in the New Age Movement: Transcendental Homelessness as a Symptom of Postmodernity | |
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| Beyond the New Age: The Repression of Antagonism in Marxism and Formulations of Community | |
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| The New Age and the Crises of Modern Narratives of Progress: The New Age as a Symptom of (Post)Modernity | |
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| The New Age and the Dream of the Enlightenment | |
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| Y2K Anxiety and the Limits of Technology | |
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| The New Age and the Crisis of Science | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |