The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-pagan MovementsThe 1980s saw the emergence of New Age and neo-paganism as major new religious movements. In the first book-length study of these movements, Michael York describes their rituals and beliefs and examines the similarities, differences and relationships between them. He profiles particular groups, including the Church Universal Triumphant, Nordic pagans, and the Covenant of Unitarian Pagans, and questions the adequacy of existing sociological categories for describing these largely amorphous phenomena. |
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The New Age Movement | 33 |
The Neopagan Movement | 99 |
Similarities | 145 |
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Adler Age and Neo-pagan Age Movement Agers Alice Bailey Alternatives American Aquarian Argüelles become belief Cayce charismatic Christian church church-sect typology Circle concept consciousness considered contemporary contrast coven Craft Crowley cult cultic milieu culture CUUPS denomination divine Divine Light Mission earth Eastern Edgar Cayce emerging experience expression gious Goddess groups healing Human Potential Movement identified individual involved London MacLaine magic meditation Meher Baba Melton ment metaphysical Montgomery mysticism Neo-pagan movements Network Nevertheless NRMs occult occultists Odinist organization orientation Pagan Moon percent psychic Ram Dass reality reincarnation religious movements responses ritual Robbins Satanism Scientology sect sectarian secular Selena Fox Shamanic Shan society sociological spiritual Starhawk Stark and Bainbridge stress structure Study of Religion Swatos thought tion tradition Transcendental Meditation transformation Troeltsch types understanding University Vivianne Crowley Wallis Wallis's Wicca Wilson Witchcraft witches world-affirming worship Wuthnow Yinger York