The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture

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A&C Black, 20 ביוני 2006 - 480 עמודים
The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite different from the those forms of religion that are in decline, but are often defined over against them and articulated and passed on in ways quite different from those of traditional religion. In particular, it is argued that such contemporary Western spirituality is fed by a constantly replenished reservoir of ideas, practices, and methodologies, which is here termed 'occulture'. Moreover, such occultural ideas both feed into and are resourced by popular culture. Indeed, popular occulture is a key feature of the re-enchantment of the West.

Demonstrating the significance and ubiquity of these ideas, this book examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use, the Internet and cyberspirituality, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, demonology and the contemporary fascination with the figure of Satan, the heavy metal subculture, popular apocalypticism, and millennial violence.
 

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Introduction
1
SUBJECTIVIZATION THE HOLISTIC MILIEU AND HEALTHCARE
4
Chapter 2 ECOENCHANTMENT
42
THE CONTEMPORARY SACRALIZATION OF PSYCHEDELICS
82
Chapter 4 CYBERSPIRITUALITY
135
Chapter 5 THE SACRALIZATION OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
165
CONTEMPORARY WESTERN DEMONOLOGY
207
ESCHATOLOGICAL REENCHANTMENT
279
Notes
328
Bibliography
392
Index
445
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מידע על המחבר (2006)

Christopher Partridge is Professor of Contemporary Religion at University College Chester. His research and writing focuses on Western alternative spiritualities and popular culture.

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