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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.

New Age movement. --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- Nouvel Age (Mouvement) --- New Age --- alternative spiritualities --- culture --- contemporary spiritual trends --- the New Age movement

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This volume deals with the transformation of religious creativity in the late modern West. Its point of departure is a set of esoteric beliefs, from Theosophy to the New Age. It shows how these traditions have adapted to the cultural givens of each successive epoch. The claims of each movement have been buttressed by drawing on various structural characteristics of late modernity. The advance of science has resulted in attempts to claim scientific status for religious beliefs. Globalization has given rise to massive loans from other cultures, but also to various strategies to radically reinterpret foreign elements. Individualism has led to an increasing reliance on experience as a source of legitimacy. The analytical tools applied to understanding religious modernization shed light on changes that are fundamentally reshaping many religious traditions. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Postmodernism --- Theosophy. --- New Age movement. --- Théorie de la connaissance (Religion) --- Postmodernisme --- Théosophie --- Nouvel Age (Mouvement) --- Religious aspects. --- Aspect religieux --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- Cosmology --- Religions --- Anthroposophy --- Epistemology, Religious --- Religious epistemology --- Religious knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Philosophy

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"How--and why-- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures--novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce--the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive--it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Human-alien encounters. --- Conspiracy theories. --- New Age movement. --- Millennialism. --- Amillennialism --- Chiliasm --- Millenarianism --- Millennianism --- Postmillennialism --- Premillennialism --- Dispensationalism --- Fundamentalism --- Millennium (Eschatology) --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- History --- Alien encounters with humans --- Alien-human contacts --- Alien-human encounters --- Close encounters of the third kind --- Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial encounters with humans --- Extraterrestrial-human encounters --- Human-alien contacts --- Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings --- Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings --- Unidentified flying objects --- Extraterrestrial beings --- Errors, inventions, etc. --- Sightings and encounters --- Strieber, Whitley. --- Icke, David. --- Wilcock, David, --- Cayce, Edgar, --- Strieber, Louis Whitley --- Barry, Jonathan, --- Striber, Uitli --- שטרייבר, ויטלי --- Rencontres avec les extraterrestres --- Théories du complot --- Nouvel Age (Mouvement) --- Millénarisme --- Icke, David --- aquarian conspiracies --- Millennial Conspiracism --- UFOs --- Conspiracism --- popular Millennialism --- the Cold War --- 1947-1987 --- Whitley Strieber --- the Abductee Narrative --- David Icke --- the Reptilian Thesis --- the Science of Oneness --- David Wilcock --- 2012 Millennialism

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Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D'Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises. Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirit

Counterculture. --- Noncitizens --- Hippies --- New Age movement. --- Ecstatic dance --- Techno music --- Globalization --- Transnationalism. --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Detroit techno (Music) --- Electronic dance music --- Trance dance --- Dance --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- Flower children --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Counterculture --- Counter culture --- Countercultures --- Culture --- Subculture --- Aliens --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign citizens (Aliens) --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Resident aliens --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Immigrants --- Refugees --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Contre-culture --- Etrangers --- Nouvel Age (Mouvement) --- Danse extatique --- Techno (Musique) --- Mondialisation --- Transnationalisme --- Social life and customs --- Social aspects --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Aspect social --- Illegal aliens --- Illegal immigrants --- Non-citizens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Undocumented aliens --- Undocumented immigrants --- Ibiza --- Spanien --- Goa --- Indien --- Ibiza. --- Spanien. --- Goa. --- Indien. --- Bharat --- Indische Union --- Altindien --- Hindustan --- Hindostan --- Indie --- Indian Union --- Bhārata Gaṇarājya --- Bhārata --- Republik Indien --- Dominion of India --- India --- Republic of India --- Inde --- Indië --- Bharata --- Indiia --- Indland --- Hindiston Respublikasi --- Satharanarat 'India --- Yin-tu --- Inder --- Britisch-Indien --- Südasien --- 15.08.1947 --- -Goa, Daman and Diu --- 30.05.1987 --- -Isbāniyā --- Spain --- Espagne --- Estado Español --- España --- Espanja --- Hispania --- Spanier --- Iberische Halbinsel --- Eivissa --- Insel --- Pityusen --- Ǧazīrat Yābis