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Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations.
This fascinating work presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement.
Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century.
This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.
This fascinating work presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement.
Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century.
This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.
Price: $120.00
Pages: 582
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
11 September 2001
ISBN: 9789004106963
Format: Paperback
'This is a formidable book…It is an indispensable manual for all those studying the New Age phenomenon…an interesting, informative, illuminating and accurate depiction of New Age thought and practices.'
John A. Saliba, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2000.
'This is a must for all students of religion...'
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Ambrix, 2002.
John A. Saliba, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2000.
'This is a must for all students of religion...'
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Ambrix, 2002.
Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam.