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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: D'Andrea, Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2018.
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.