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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher 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:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231508384
  • 0231508387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)107244

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.