The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and OccultureA&C Black, 20 juin 2006 - 482 pages 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. |
Table des matières
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 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2: Alternative Spiritualities ... Christopher Partridge Affichage d'extraits - 2004 |
The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2: Alternative Spiritualities ... Christopher Partridge Affichage d'extraits - 2004 |
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