New age religion and globalization
By: edited by Mikael Rothstein.
Contributors: Rothstein, Mikael.
Series: RENNER studies on new religions
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aarhus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9788772887920
Subjects: New Age movement.; Globalization -- Religious aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Mikael Rothstein; title: Part I: General perspectives; title: Prospects for the globalization of New Age: spiritual imperialism versus cultural diversity / Wouter J. Hanegraaff; title: Globalization or Westernization?: New Age as contemporary transnational culture / Liselotte Frisk; title: Same message from everywhere: the sources of modern revelation / Olav Hammer; title: After the New Age: is there a Next Age? / Missimo Introvigne; title: Part II: Particular cases; title: Reiki: the international spread of a New Age healing movement / J. Gordon Melton; title: Homo accumulans and the spiritualization of money / Lisbeth Mikaelsson; title: The Gnostic myth and the goddess myth: two contemporary responses to questions about human identity / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus / The myth of the UFO in global perspective: a cognitive approach / Mikael Rothstein; title: 'Going global from the inside out': spiritual globalism in the workplace / Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon.