The Making of the New Spirituality
Subtitle: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780830823987
Subjects: Sociology; Spirituality - General; Religion; Christianity and other religions; Spirituality; Sociology of Religion; Religion and science; Comparative Religion; Christian spirituality; Christianity and other religio; Christian Theology - General; Christianity - General; History
First sentence: Harvard graduate and former Green Beret Gary Zukav, a frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, is just one of dozens of popular writers currently promoting an emerging new spiritually.
Description: "A massive shift in Western religious attitudes has taken place almost without our noticing it. The Judeo-Christian tradition of Western culture has slowly but steadily been eclipsed by a new way of viewing spirituality." "This shift has been in the making for some three hundred years. James Herrick tells the story of how the old view has been dismantled and a new one created not primarily through academic or institutional channels but by means of popular religious media - books, speeches, magazines and pamphlets, as well as movies, plays, music, radio interviews, television programs and websites."--BOOK JACKET.