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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pike, Sarah M., Author.

Series:

Columbia contemporary American religion series.

Columbia contemporary American religion series New Age and neopagan religions in America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Age movement--United States.

New Age movement.

New Age movement--History--20th century.

Neopaganism--United States.

Neopaganism.

Neopaganism--History--20th century.

Neopagans--United States.

Neopagans.

United States--Religion--1960-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

232330751