Reflexive religion : the new age in Brazil and beyond /
The core of this book derives from a seminal dissertation research about the New Age movement in Brazil conducted back in the mid-1990s. The topical scholarship was relatively thin, reflecting the novelty of the phe-nomenon and a certain academic lag to engage with unestablished phenomena.--Provided...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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Colección: | Religion in the Americas series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the spirit of the New age in Brazil
- Post-traditional religiosities : reflexivity and individualism transforming the religious field
- Sociological overview of the New Age
- The perfect self : neo-Enlightenment and Romanticism in new religious forms
- Ethnology of the New Age in Brazil : hybridism, individualism and reflexivity
- The New Age in Brazil : religious individualism between spiritism and psychological culture
- Psychological culture : management and liberation in Brazilian New Age
- The New Age Christianity of Paulo Coelho
- New Age spiritism : inner reform from "doctrine" to reflexivity
- The niche globalization of projectiology : cosmology and internationalization of a Brazilian parascience
- New Age in Latin America : from gregarious syncretism to reflexive individualism
- Final thoughts: the New Age as a religious pragmatic of late modernity.