The New age
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- Created on: 02-03-17 10:42
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- The New Age
- Growth of New Age
- 'New Age' covers range of beliefs & activities
- Heelas (2008) estimates about 2,000 activities & 146,000 practitioners in UK
- Many being very loosely organised audience & client cults
- Extremely diverse
- Heelas (1996) argues there's 2 common themes that characterise new age
- Self-spirituality
- Turned away from traditional religions & instead look inside themselves to find spirituality
- Detraditionalisation
- Rejects spiritual authority traditional sources (e.g. priests), instead it values personal experiences
- Self-spirituality
- Postmodernity & New Age
- Drane (1999) argues its appeal is part of a shift towards postmodern society
- Loss of faith in claims of the truth if a feature of postmodern society
- Science promised to bring progress to a better world but instead gave use war, genocide & global warming
- As a result people have lost faith in experts & professionals
- New Age & Modernity
- Bruce argues the growth of new age is a feature of latest phase of modern society
- Modern society values individualism which is a key principle of new age beliefs
- Bruce notes new age beliefs are often softer versions of more demanding & self-disciplined traditional religions
- Heelas (1996) sees new age & modernity linked in 4 ways
- Source of Identity
- Consumer Culture
- Rapid Social Change
- Decline of organised religion
- Bruce argues the growth of new age is a feature of latest phase of modern society
- Growth of New Age
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