The Re Enchantment Of The West
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The Re Enchantment Of The West
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Author : Christopher Partridge
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-03-04
The Re Enchantment Of The West written by Christopher Partridge and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-04 with Religion categories.
As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, it 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. 'Chris Partridge argues that Western Society is permeated by a broad "occulture" by which he means a reservoir of ideas, beliefs, theories and practices to which new religions, unorthodox spiritualities, film and popular music all draw attention. This re-enchantment of the West should not be seen as a superficial secondary development in the shadow of Christianity. In many ways it is a religious phenomenom in its own right. Partridge's arguments in this regard are well put and I warmly welcome this timely book.' Mikhael Rothstein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Re Enchantment Of The West Vol 2
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Author : Christopher Partridge
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-06-20
The Re Enchantment Of The West Vol 2 written by Christopher Partridge and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-20 with Social Science categories.
Challenging some assessments of religion in the West, this study argues that, although much organized religion, particularly Christianity, is in numerical decline, in actual fact we are witnessing an alternative spiritual re-enchantment of society and culture.
The Re Enchantment Of The West
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Author : Christopher Hugh Partridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Re Enchantment Of The West written by Christopher Hugh Partridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Cults categories.
The Re Enchantment Of The West
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Author : Christopher Partridge
language : en
Publisher: T&T Clark
Release Date : 2004
The Re Enchantment Of The West written by Christopher Partridge and has been published by T&T Clark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Challenging some assessments of religion in the West, this study argues that, although much organized religion, particularly Christianity, is in numerical decline, in actual fact we are witnessing an alternative spiritual re-enchantment of society and culture.
The Re Enchantment Of The West
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Author : Christopher Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 2005-10
The Re Enchantment Of The West written by Christopher Partridge and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with Cults categories.
The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite different from the those forms of religion that are in decline, but are often defined over against them and articulated and passed on in ways quite different from those of traditional religion. In particular, it is argued that such contemporary Western spirituality is fed by a constantly replenished reservoir of ideas, practices, and methodologies, which is here termed 'occulture'. Moreover, such occultural ideas both feed into and are resourced by popular culture. Indeed, popular occulture is a key feature of the re-enchantment of the West. Demonstrating the significance and ubiquity of these ideas, this book examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use, the Internet and cyberspirituality, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, demonology and the contemporary fascination with the figure of Satan, the heavy metal subculture, popular apocalypticism, and millennial violence.
The Re Enchantment Of The World
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Author : Joshua Landy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Re Enchantment Of The World written by Joshua Landy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of strategies for re-enchantment, each fully compatible with secular rationality. It has to, because God has many "aspects"--or to put it in more secular terms, because traditional religion offers so much in so many domains. From one thinker to the next, the question of just what, in religious enchantment, needs to be replaced in a secular world receives an entirely different answer. Now, for the first time, many of these strategies are laid out in a single volume, with contributions by specialists in literature, history, and philosophy.
Western Esotericism
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Author : Tore Ahlbäck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Western Esotericism written by Tore Ahlbäck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cults categories.
Allegra
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Author : Mary West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
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Landfall
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Postmodern Spirituality
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Author : Tore Ahlbäck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Postmodern Spirituality written by Tore Ahlbäck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Cults categories.