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Organizations, movements andmembers. movements (NAM)
New Age - answer- covers wide range of beliefs + activities
- very loosely organised audience or client cults
- diverse + eclectic
- UFOs, astrology, tarot, crystals, yoga
Heelas + Woodhead: New Age participation - answer2008 in UK:
2,000 activities
146,000 practitioners
Heelas: themes characterising New Age - self-spirituality - answer- New Agers seeking
spiritual have turned away from trad 'external' relig like churches
- instead look inside selves to find it
Heelas: themes characterising New Age - detraditionalisation - answer- NA rejects
spiritual auth or external trad sources like priests or sacred texts
- instead value personal experience + believes we can discover truth for ourselves +
w/in ourselves
Drane: postmodernity and New Age - answer- appeal to NA = part of shit to PM soc
- loss of faith in metanarratives + destruction (war, genocide) brought by science have
led to lack of faith in experts + churches
- instead look w/in for truth
Bruce: modernity and New Age - answer- NA = feature of modern soc not PM soc
- mod soc values individualism (key to NA) + values expressive professions (artists etc)
who NA most appeals to
Bruce: New Age as 'watered down' religion - answer- NAM movements often softer
versions of more demanding Eastern relig (like Buddhism)
- they've been 'watered down' to appeal to self-centred Westerners
Bruce: pick and mix shopping - answer- NA eclecticism/pick + mix shopping = typical of
relig in late mod soc
- reflecting consumerist ethos of capitalist soc
Heelas: link between New Age and modernity - source of identity - answer- in mod soc,
indiv has many roles (at work, in family, w/ friends etc) but little overlap between
- results in fragmented identity
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