New Age and neopagan religions in America / Sarah M. Pike.

By:

Pike, Sarah M, 1959-

Contributor(s):

Thomson Gale (Firm)

Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: EB00662331 | Recorded BooksSeries: Columbia contemporary American religion series | Gale virtual reference libraryPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780231508384
0231508387

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Age and Neopagan Religions in America.DDC classification:

299/.93 22

LOC classification:

BP605.N48 P55 2004eb

Other classification:

11.98
BE 9110

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Contents:

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.

Summary: Provides a general introduction to the varieties of New Age and Neopagan religions in the United States today as well as an account of their nineteenth-century roots and emergence from the 1960s counterculture. Covering such topics as healing, gender and sexuality, millennialism, and ritual experience, it also provides a description and analysis of the spiritual worlds and social networks created by participants.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provides a general introduction to the varieties of New Age and Neopagan religions in the United States today as well as an account of their nineteenth-century roots and emergence from the 1960s counterculture. Covering such topics as healing, gender and sexuality, millennialism, and ritual experience, it also provides a description and analysis of the spiritual worlds and social networks created by participants.

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