Handbook of New Age

Biographical note Readership

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Reference Work

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x, 486 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

Publication Value:

Handbook

Biographical note

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 (www.asanas.org.uk). 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.

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All those interested in the History of Religions, New Age,Comparative Religion, New Religious Movements, the Social-Scientific Study of Religion

€168.00$234.00

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9789004235960

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Handbook of the Theosophical Current

Edited by Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein

The Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current represents pioneering research into an important but under-researched current. The three sections in this volume are devoted to the Theosophical Society, Theosophically influenced religious currents, and the interaction between Theosophy and ...

€192.00$267.00

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9789004234352

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Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions

Edited by Inken Prohl and John Nelson

Representing work by some of the leading scholars in the field, this volume presents important topics in the religious environment of contemporary Japan by surveying exciting trends, religious change and innovation, and the interactivity of religion with market and global forces.

€143.00$196.00

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9789004218819

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Handbook of Hyper-real Religions

Edited by Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney

‘Hyper-real religions’ are innovative religions and spirituality that mix elements of religious tradition with popular culture. Through various case studies, this book studies the on and off-line religious/spiritual consumption of these narratives through a social scientific approach.

€217.00$298.00

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9789004221871

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Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production

Edited by Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney and Alex Norman, University of Sydney.

This volume fills a lacuna in the academic assessment of new religions by investigating their cultural products (such as music, architecture, food et cetera). Contributions explore the manifold ways in which new religions have contributed to humanity’s creative output.

€224.00$290.00

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9789004187917

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Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science

Edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer

The present collection examines the many different ways in which religions appeal to the authority of science. The result is a wide-ranging and uniquely compelling study of how religions adapt their message to the challenges of the contemporary world.

€156.00$202.00

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9789004163737

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Handbook of Contemporary Paganism

Edited by Murphy Pizza and James R. Lewis

As Contemporary Paganism continues to grow and establish its identity and place on the global religious landscape, new angles of inquiry about it have emerged and are discussed by Pagan Studies scholars of varying disciplines in this collection.