New Spirituality, Self, and Belonging How New Agers and Neo-Pagans Talk about Themselves

Subjects:

• Religious Studies » Religious Studies (General)
• Sociology » Sociological Theory
• Religious Studies » Theology/Spirituality

Reviews:

• ...an important and compelling contribution to the growing body of academic study in the field of Neo-Paganism and related religious movement because of its systematic analysis as well as presentation of data.
  —Religious Studies Review
• Bloch contributes significantly toward this process of emergent clarity in which the counter-cultural amalgam becomes something more than the sum of its New Age and Neo-Pagan parts.
  —Sociology of Religion

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Conceptualizing Alternative Spirituality
• Talking About Self and Community
• Ideological Strains: Spirituality and Science
• Other Dualisms: Earth/Sky, Goddess/God, Darkness/Light
• Ideological Limitations
• Mythology as Ideology
• Conclusion
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Bibliography
• Index