Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality
@article{Aupers2006BeyondTS, title={Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality}, author={S. Aupers and D. Houtman}, journal={Journal of Contemporary Religion}, year={2006}, volume={21}, pages={201 - 222} }
This article argues that New Age spirituality is substantially less unambiguously individualistic and more socially and publicly significant than today's sociological consensus acknowledges. Firstly, an uncontested doctrine of self-spirituality, characterised by sacralisation of the self and demonisation of social institutions, provides the spiritual milieu with ideological coherence and paradoxically accounts for its overwhelming diversity. Secondly, participants undergo a process of… Expand
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