Kemp Daren, Lewis James R. (eds.) Handbook of New Age

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007. — x, 486 p. — (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. Volume 1). — ISBN 978-90-04-15355-4, 90-04-15355-1.The Handbook of New Age is a comprehensive survey of alternative spiritualities: their history, their global impact, their cultural influence and how they are understood by scholars. Chapters by many of the leading scholars of the movement give the latest analysis of contemporary spiritual trends, and present up-to-date observations of the interaction between the New Age movement and many different fields of knowledge and research.Daren Kemp is co-editor of the Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies and co-organises a series of international conferences on New Age. He is author of New Age: A Guide and The Christaquarians? A Sociology of Christians in the New Age.
James R. Lewis is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. His recent publications include Legitimating New Religions. He is also the general editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements and The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of New Age Religions.Editors’ Preface.
Introduction.
Defining the New Age. George D. Chryssides.
The New Age Movement and Western Esotericism. Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
The Origins of ‘New Age’ Religion Between the Two World Wars. Steven Sutcliffe.
Beyond Millennialism: The New Age Transformed. J. Gordon Melton.
New Age and Social-scientific Research.
Quantitative Studies of New Age: A Summary and Discussion. Liselotte Frisk.
The Psychology of the New Age. Miguel Farias and Pehr Granqvist.
Producing and Consuming New Age Spirituality: The Cultic Milieu and the Network Paradigm. Adam Possamay.
New Age Diffuse Communities. Dominic Corrywright.
New Age, Culture, and Society.
New Age and Business. Martin Ramstedt.
Science and the New Age. James R. Lewis.
Truth, Authority and Epistemological Individualism in New Age Thought. Christopher Partridge.
Old Myths, New Mythicising. Anna E. Kubiak.
Power Trips: Making Sacred Space through New Age Pilgrimage. Adrian Ivakhiv.
Global Aspects of New Age.
Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem, Heart Chakra of Planet Earth: The Local and the Global in Glastonbury. Marion I. Bowman.
Hawaii in New Age Imaginations: A Case of Religious Inventions. Mikael Rothstein.
A Latin American New Age? María Julia Carozzi.
The Spiritual World: Aspects of New Age in Japan. Inken Prohl.
New Age and Worldviews.
New Age Religion and the Sceptics. Olav Hammer.
The New Age Movement as an Astrological Minority Religion with Mainstream Appeal. Michael York.
Holistic Health and New Age in Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Maria Tighe and Jenny Butler.
Paganism and the New Age. Melissa Harrington.
Christians and New Age. Daren Kemp.
Contributors.
Index.