The Re-Enchantment of the West
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The Re-Enchantment of the West: Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture

The Re-Enchantment of the West: Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture

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As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates. After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities. Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, especially his enigmatic analysis of the emergence mystical religion, which presciently provides helpful insights into understanding the contemporary alternative religious milieu. Against sociologists such as Bryan Wilson and Steve Bruce, this and the subsequent chapter argues that, rather than being insignificant, new forms of spirituality are actually proving to be a significant part of Western re-enchantment. Chapter 3 constructs a general theory of the re-enchantment of the West.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part 1: The Disenchantment And Re-enchantment Of The West 1. The Disenchantment of the West; Types of Secularization; Max Weber and the Disenchantment of the World; What Secularization is Not; Rationalization and Pluralism; Conclusion; 2. Understanding New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities; Max Weber on Sectarianism and Charisma; Ernst Troeltsch on Churches, Sects and Mysticism; H.R. Niebuhr on Sectarianism; Bryan Wilson on Sectarianism; Towards a Typology of the New Religious Life Secularization, New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities; 3. The Re-enchantment of the West Disenchantment as the Precursor to Re-enchantment; Non-traditional Religious Vitality; Re-enchantment and De-exotification; Concluding Comments; Part 2: The Significance Of Occulture; 4. Occulture; The Cultic Milleu and Mystical Religion Occulture; New Age Occulture: the Significance of the Self; The Priority of Experience and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion; Romanticizing the Premodern; Pagan Occulture; Concluding Comments; 5. Easternization? Turning East; East Meets West; The Significance of the 1893 World Parliament of Religions; A Revolution of Consciousness: the Sacralizing Significance of the 1960s; Eastern Teachers in Western Traditions; Easternization? Problems and Proposals; Quasi-religion, Instrumental Activism, and Syncretism; 6. Popular Occulture; Popular Culture as Religious Text? The Dilution Thesis; The Significance of Popular Culture; Supernatural Horror: Vampire Fiction Cool Occulture; Popular Sacred Narratives; 7. Popular Occulture: The Significance of Sound Adorno and Popular Music; The Occultural Significance of Popular Music Festival Culture; Psychedelic Trance Culture; Practising the Sacred Art of Dub; Concluding Comments; Bibliography; Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780567084088
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 276
  • Sub Title: Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0567084086
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 440 gr


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